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What snake is this? Is it venomous?
Location: Ozark Mountains in Northern Arkansas.
Size: Perhaps 4-6 feet in length.
Behavior: Mower uncovered a couple of these in tall grass/brush next to a log. They did not coil up. This one lay ...
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Is this snake hazardous around children?
This snake lives in a small rock dam in a residential retention pond in Chattanooga, TN. Children play in the area at times. It is approximately 30 inches in length. Is this snake a hazard or can it ...
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Snake Identification in India
Location: Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Time: Near the end of September at around 1:00 pm.
This snake was spotted in a drain near my hostel in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Can somebody help me ...
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ID Large, broad flat bone found in Gulf of Mexico [duplicate]
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Is this a tooth? A rib? Or a fish?
I found this in about 4’ of water in the Gulf of Mexico/Galveston.
It is slightly curved and the side edges have numerous pointy parts. On one side at the bottom ...
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Help identifying small snake in southern India
I found a baby snake near a hill in Karnataka, Southern part of India.
It's monsoon season here.
Approximate length - 15 cm
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Reptile identification - Is this a green iguana?
At first instance it looks like an iguana and since this photo was taken near the coast of Pernambuco, Brazil it could only be the green iguana, but as you can see from the photo the reptile is black. ...
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What species of snake is this? It was sighted in NE New Mexico, Union County
The snake in this photograph was found injured/dead in Clayton, Union, New Mexico (USA) on 10/06/2021. I want to know if it is a juvenile bullsnake or a Chihuahuan Night Snake...or something ...
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What animal is this? Caution, GRAPHIC!
One of my friends stumbled upon this half part of an animal. It seems lizard-like...I don't think I've ever seen a lizard that large, though. We live in Greece. Can you figure it out? Close-up and a ...
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Help indentify this species of snake/worm
I stumbled upon this snake during my routine walking in the nature park near me. The location is southern India.
Time if observation is 6 30 PM.
The length was approximately 1 feet. I could see the ...
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Help identifying snake? (Southern California)
I just got home after a brief, surprise thunderstorm ... to find a pretty good size snake lounging in the breezeway at the garage side door. (Presumably, it was seeking shelter from the rain?)
Could ...
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What Snake is this? (Found at my door in Raebareli, North India)
Found this snake at my door in Raebareli, North India. We of course allowed it to go away peacefully.
Could someone please identify it for me?
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What is this snake in South Florida, USA
I observed this snake for about 10 minutes. It was slithering back and forth in about 50x20 yard (50x20 meter) area. Just kept going back and forth (then I left). There was a similar snake at the same ...
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What kind of salamander is this?
This guy was found in central Virginia, under a flower pot. He's about 3 inches long, because part of his tail is either missing or it's just short. He looked dried out, so of course I wet my hand, ...
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What is this nighttime creature?
I almost stepped on this little critter. It blended into my garage floor. It is about about the size of my hand, with huge bulbous eyes that immediately caught my attention. There was a distinct white ...
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Water snake with a yellow criss-cross on a black background?
I saw a 60 cm long, very skinny (~15 mm diameter), black with yellow diagonal criss-cross patterned snake swimming in a pond this afternoon in northern Taiwan.
It was swimming near the top of the ...
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What's this parasite?
Any microbiologists or parasitologists recognize this? It's from my pet bearded dragon in the eastern US and the vet's never seen it before.
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what kind of lizard is this
Found on ground by house in residential neighborhood in Fort Pierce FL. looks mature maybe 17".
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Can you identify this snake?
On a walk through I’ON Swamp/Natural Forest in Mt. Pleasant, SC, we came upon this snake. We did not get too close for fear it may be poisonous.
It had a very dark brown/taupe exterior with almost a ...
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What is this animal looking like an Axolotl?
My friend caught a strange looking animal and he's saying it is an axolotl. I keep telling him it's almost impossible, since they are almost extinct in their natural environment and he caught it in St-...
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Differentiating Antaresia (Children's Complex) Pythons using something other than color pattern
I have a standard wild-type Children's python (Antaresia childreni) that I'm planning on breeding in the next few years and was just sold a male "Children's python" that I think might actually be a ...
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Snake with strange head
This snake was killed in graveyard Peshawar (Pakistan). I just wonder what is this? Is it a snake? Baby crying sounds were reportedly heard from graveyard in Peshawar after months of search the sounds ...
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Help me ID snake
Could someone please tell me if this is a cotton mouth? Found 2 on my back porch, one got away.
Location: Fayetteville, AR (USA) [Note: there are several ponds nearby]
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Can any one ID my tortoise?
I have got a pet tortoise and I was wondering if any one could identify it. I think it's a male around 2 years old.
I'm not quite sure, it is quite small, very shy and goes very fast.
He likes ...
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What brazilian snake is this?
(1) Is it possible to identify the snake in the picture below?
If (1) cannot be answered:
(2) In view of the pattern of colors, is it possible the snake in the picture below be non-venomous? If so, ...
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What species is this lizard?
A small green lizard (20 cm in size). It was found in the direct neighboorhood of a house, in a small village in the Hungarian hills south of the Balaton lake. It was found in the middle of the day.
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What is this species of green frog found in store-bought flowers in France?
Today I found a frog in a big flower composition bought at a french shop (living in Grenoble, south of France).
It started snowing today, and I'd like to keep it until it's warmer outside.
So could ...
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Snake with red eyes and black skin found in a plant pot
It was found dead/stiff in an empty plant pot in a kitchen.
Could it be a young Höllenotter (a melanistic vipera berus, photo in Wikimedia Commons)?
Is the reddish/brownish part an injury? And ...
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What is this tiny lizard?
This tiny guy stumbled into our house in the suburbs of Sydney. What species is it?
It's dark and has two yellow stripes going along the length of its body. They start on its head and go right above ...
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Larva attacking frog ? Guide about this
The above picture was taken in western forest of India where a larva attached itself to a frog neck. What is it and how it will effect the frog?
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What kind of snake is this
Found this outside on patio in northern Virginia, Ashburn area, September 2018. It's about 12 inches. Is it a water snake or rattlesnake?
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Snake Identification - St. Louis, MO
We found this tiny snake in the finished part of our basement today. We live in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
The snake is dark greenish-grayish and has very faint lines running the length of its ...
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Lizard Identification
What is this lizard?
Seen in Hollywood, Florida, on a golf course. It may have been an escaped pet and was approximately 17" long.
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What is this frog I found
What type of frog or toad is this? I found him in my backyard in southern Alabama and he is clearly very small. I’m not sure what species it is, it’s mostly brown but has small spots on the top of his ...
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Recognition of snake (image)
I would like some help with the recognition of the snake shown in the image below. I was doing a fieldwork in a forest in Slovakia when I found it.
I was thinking it could be a water snake but I am ...
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Identification of snake
Can someone identify this snake? Photographed in a home in Los Lunas, NM, USA.
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Can someone tell me what kind of reptile is this?
It was found in El Paso Texas. It was very scared and weak when I found it. But I bought it a small aquarium and some food to make sure it’s ok before I let it go. It’s tail is broken off. It have ...
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What snake is this one?
I'm wondering what kind of snake is the one in the attached photo. It looks like Vipera aspis but It seemed a bit too big (lenght of about 1 meter).
This photo was taken near Como, in the north of ...
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Help identifying leaf-like bone
I found two of these objects near a creek in Missouri. They feel like they are made out of bone but they do not look like any bone I have seen before. They also appear as though the could be some sort ...
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Is it Bufo bufo?
I find a couple of frogs. It was cca. 4inches long and 2inches wide. Photo was taken in Prague, Czech republic, middle Europe.. Same zoomed.
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What species is this turtle in Houston?
This turtle was displaced by hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, USA (Buffalo Bayou and Dunlavy). It appears to be a snapper. Can someone identify the exact species?
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snake identification
While moving large, old oak logs I'd stacked a year ago to form a terraced garden, I noticed it was very moist under the logs.
I saw 5 kingsnakes, a scarlet snake, a couple of small brown earth ...
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What species of snake found in central Alabama, US?
The snake in the image below was found in the attic of a home in a relatively well-forested suburb of central Alabama, south of Birmingham about 20 minutes. It was safely released outside in the ...
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Identification of Anoles
Can anyone help me identify these anole species? All photos taken on St. Thomas, USVI, in close proximity to one another.
(click to zoom in)
Each photo is a different individual, but the overall ...
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Indian Snake Species Identification
Location: southern India
Time: noon
Approx. Size:
Length: around 2 feet;
Size: extremely small, like a straw.
Diameter: less than 1 cm.
Was very fast in climbing aisle of mud bed/uphill like 90 ...
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How do you identify this particular snake shedding?
Aloha,
Snakes are illegal in the State of Hawaii, with the exception of the Hawaiian Blind Snake (Brahminy Blind Snake (Ramphotyhlops braminus)). I've read through a plethora of articles to no avail....
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What kind of snake is this?
First, we are located in Missouri. In between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau. St. Francois county to be precise.
We just walked outside and found this on the porch so we carried it off. Normally this ...
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Species Identification: Snake, New Mexico
The snake is about one and a half inches in diameter at its widest, a half inch at the head, and about two feet long. I found it in central New Mexico. It's hard to see the head in the pics, but it ...
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Lizard species identification
I managed to photograph a lizard in Haruvit Forest, Israel. I would like to know - what lizard species is this? Size appr. 20-25cm
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What is the name of this snake?
This baby snake just came inside my house in Sri Lanka, and I'm wondering whether it is venomous. Do you know this snake?
I am posting this from my phone so I am unable to format properly. And I have ...
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