Author: Site Staff

Dr. Robert Cyril Stebbins, Renowned UC Berkeley Herpetologist Dies At 98
Stebbins authored the Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians and more than a dozen other books. [...]

Cane Toads Are Opportunistic Eaters
Peruvian park ranger photographs Bufo marinus' attempt to eat a bat. [...]

Center For Biological Diversity And USFWS Reach Agreements On Boreal Toad And Eastern Hellbender Salamander Status
Agreement should speed federal protections for both species. [...]
Mandarin Rat Snake Grounds Qantas 747 In Sydney Australia
Elaphe mandarina was found after the jet landed from a Singapore flight. [...]

England’s Chester Zoo Hatches Bell’s Anglehead Lizard
It is the first successful Gonocephalus bellii hatching in England. [...]

Robert W. Applegate – Contributing Author
Robert W. Applegate started collecting local reptiles by age 6 and was trading for exotics by age 11. By age 18, he was commercially collecting, im [...]

Al Roach – Contributing Author
A short biography on contributing author Al Roach. [...]

Scott Corning – Contributing Author
Scott Corning is a herpetoculturist with more than 23 years experience breeding reptiles, especially in the Family Agamidae and Iguanidae. Thi [...]

Pat Higdon – Contributing Author
Pat Higdon is an auto mechanic by trade and a herper by passion. He has kept reptiles for more than 25 years and has worked with Dumeril's boas [...]

Dick Bartlett – Contributing Author
Dick Bartlett has written more than 50 herpetological care books and field guides with his wife, Patti. He has also written more than 600 articles. [...]

John Clare – Contributing Author
John Clare is the founder of caudata.org, the longest running amphibian community on the Internet. He is also the founder of frogforum.net.
Cli [...]

Rob Haneisen – Contributing Author
Rob Haneisen has been a journalist for 14 years and is currently a daily newspaper editor in Massachusetts. He has been breeding reptiles for 10 ye [...]

Tom Greek – Contributing Author
Tom Greek, DVM, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a Southern California native. He practices small and exotic animal medicine at Yor [...]

Karl Heinz Switak – Contributing Author
Karl Heinz Switak is a retired field herpetologist from the California Academy of Science (Steinhart Aquarium). He has traveled the world to record [...]

Ian Jessup – Contributing Author
Ian Jessup holds a bachelor of science in biology and chemistry with an emphasis on cellular and molecular biology from Metropolitan State College [...]

Kurt Buhlman – Contributing Author
Kurt Buhlmann, a research scientist with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in Aiken, S.C., has an M.S. in wildlife sciences and a Ph.D. in ecol [...]

Douglas Mader – Contributing Author
Douglas R. Mader, M.S., DVM, DABVP, is a graduate of the University of California, Davis. He owns the Marathon Veterinary Hospital in the Conch Rep [...]

Ken Foose – Contributing Author
Ken Foose has been breeding and working with reptiles since the early '70s. He's been both zookeeper and curator. He opened Exotic Pets, a [...]

Bill Love – Contributing Author
Meet Bill Love, a Reptiles Magazine contributing author. [...]

Russ Case – Editor
ReptileChannel Editor Russ Case is a long-time reptile enthusiast, beginning with a childhood spent in constant search of reptiles and amphibians to k [...]

Two Herpetologists Discover Four Legless Lizard Species In California
It was previously thought that just a single species of legless lizard, Anniella pulchra existed in the California. [...]
San Diego Zoo Institute Hatches Jamaican Iguana
Cyclura collei is the first successful hatching of the species at the institute. [...]
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Fossil Of Lizard That Ruled The World’s Oceans Discovered In Jordan
Swedish scientists discover near perfect fossil of Prognathodon. [...]