the official reptile thread

[Billy_Sama]

Best Reptile video game theme song.

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

My little cousin has a crested gecko (really it's his mum's boyfriends gecko as he cares for him because the kid is only like 7) and the little man named him "Climby"

I guess that's an apt name, I mean he does climb

Geckos are good at that because of this molecular phenomenon Van der Waals force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force

Also here's a real world deathclaw

 

[IV 445]

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

Eastern brown snake

Dekay's brown snake

 

[Mister Qwerty]

Happy snek

 

[IV 445]

 

[Mister Qwerty]

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

trying to mimic a cobra doesn't always work

Also here's a shingleback one of the few species of blue tongue skinks

 

[IV 445]

It’s sort of a lizard?

 

[murgatroid]

Baby leatherback sea turtle. The only turtle without a shell.



Grown up

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

Baby leatherback sea turtle. The only turtle without a shell.

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Grown up

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you forgot something. Their mouths!

Spoiler: Spooky

 

[IV 445]

 

[IV 445]

 

[Discourteous Discourse]

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Baby leatherback sea turtle. The only turtle without a shell.

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Grown up

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And just to make clear the difference in size between the two

Young

Fully grown adult

 

[King Kong... with wings?]

And just to make clear the difference in size between the two

Young

Fully grown adult

I would hate to be bitten by one of those guys

 

[omori]

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I love leopard geckos...

 

[omori]

Oh no I held a baby corn snake today and I fell in love