Gila monster, that is! This monster was recently discovered by Ron Ruppert and his Herpetology class from Cuesta College on a field trip to ...

I love spring! Both spring season, with the emergence of hungry, feisty amphibians and reptiles, and spring quarter, where I get to teach in...

It's mid-March in sunny central California, and that means two things: reptiles and mayhem at Chimineas! Last weekend we had the first a...

I rang in the new year my favorite way- Central American style, on a beautiful Caribbean island full of snakes and friends. The purpose of t...

Introducing Cosmo! I brought him home yesterday, after six weeks of waiting that seemed like six months. No, he's not named after the dr...

KUMA: May 1, 2001 - December 5, 2008 When I brought my new puppy home in 2001, I named her Kuma because she looked like a little bear cub (K...