Described for science in 1903, this species was imported by the Umlauff Pet Store in Hamburg, Germany in 1904, making it one of the earliest cichlids kept in aquariums. Despite…
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Until 1975, when selling turtles less than four inches long was banned due to outbreaks of salmonella in children, "babies" of this species were sold by the millions every year,…
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While "hourglass" is fairly descriptive of the pattern on the back, as with human fingerprints and zebra stripes, each frog has its own unique set of markings, unless, as is…
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An enormously developed extension of its skull lends this lizard a resemblance to the "Alien" of horror movies. In contrast to other basilisks (which can run so quickly they can…
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Found from Mexico to Paraguay, this is one of the most well-known snakes, and has been popular in zoos for well over a century. It is also common in private…
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Known as the Gua in Mexico, this huge-headed turtle is also found in Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala. A giant among the musk and mud turtle family, it can attain a…
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This is the smallest of the four New World Crocodiles, usually reaching about ten feet. Described to science in 1850, it then "disappeared" until the 1920s, when it was determined…
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This larger, more arboreal relative of the Gila monster is easily distinguished from it by being black and cream-colored, rather than black and pinkish-orange. Like the Gila monster, it is…
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Found from northern Mexico to Central America, it was only separated by herpetologists from the South American Tropical Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) in 2004. Unlike its South American relative, but in…
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There are a number of small Tropical American prehensile-tailed, tree-dwelling pit vipers, but many of them have small distributions and are very rare. This species is found all the way…
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