Critter Science

The Children’s Python

17 August, 2026
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The Children’s python, aka banded rock python, small-blotched python, and eastern small-blotched python, hails from northern Australia. These snakes face the threat of death from ingesting the deadly poisonous cane toad

The Woma Python

4 August, 2026
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The woma python, aka Ramsay’s python, the sand python, or the woma, is like all pythons, a constrictor, and therefore not venomous. They hail from a majority of Australia. They face the threats of habitat loss and

The Black-Headed Python

21 July, 2026
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The black-headed python is a species of constrictor that hails from northern half of Australia. Being constrictors, they rely on squeezing their prey to death, rather than envenoming their prey.

The Desert Monitor

15 July, 2026
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The desert monitor can be found in northern Africa, as well as central and southern Asia. They are part of the order Squamata, like all monitor lizards. These lizards face the threats of habitat loss and destruction

The Broadley’s Flat Lizard

18 June, 2026
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The Broadley’s flat lizard, aka Augrabies flat lizard, is a species of spinytailed lizard that hails from South Africa. These highly colorful lizards face the threat of viticulture which has

The Amethystine Python

16 June, 2026
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The amethystine python, aka scrub python or sanca permata, is considered to be 1 of the largest snakes in the world after the green anaconda, reticulated python, Burmese python, and African rock python.

The Mangrove Monitor

8 June, 2026
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The mangrove monitor, aka mangrove goanna, western Pacific monitor lizard, or wbl yb in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea can be found from northern Australia and New Guinea, to the Moluccas, and the Solomon Islands

The Rock Monitor

3 June, 2026
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The rock monitor, aka white-throated monitor, is 1 of the largest species of lizard in Africa. They hail from the eastern and southern parts of Africa. These lizards face the threats of habitat loss and destruction

The Giant Girdled Lizard

11 May, 2026
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The giant girdled lizard, aka sungazer, giant dragon lizard, ouvolk, and/or giant zonure, dwells in South Africa. These lizards, that appear to look more like dragons than lizards, face the threats of

The Asian Giant Softshell Turtle

13 February, 2026
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The Asian giant softshell turtle, aka Cantor’s giant softshell turtle or the frog-faced softshell turtle, vanished from most of their range in the 20th century. These turtles face the threats of