Keyword: scales
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ANI109-00200
The hand of a blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus serrifer) at the Houston Zoo.
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ANI109-00199
The hand of a blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus serrifer) at the Houston Zoo.
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ANI109-00198
The tail of a blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus serrifer) at the Houston Zoo.
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FIS039-00095
A close up of a chain pickerel (Esox niger) at the Fish Biodiversity Lab at Auburn University.
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ANI102-00117
Copper-headed trinket snake, Coeglanathus radiatus, at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.
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ANI102-00116
Copper-headed trinket snake, Coeglanathus radiatus, at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.
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ANI102-00115
Copper-headed trinket snake, Coeglanathus radiatus, at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.
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ANI102-00106
A Moroccan black cobra (Naja haje legionis) at the Dallas Zoo.
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ANI102-00094
A green bush rat snake (Rhadinophis prasinus) at the Dallas Zoo.
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ANI102-00093
A green bush rat snake (Rhadinophis prasinus) at the Dallas Zoo.
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ANI062-00339
A vulnerable baby white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) clings to her mother’s back at a facility in Florida. At just 70 days old, this captive-born baby was a first in captivity! This vulnerable species, like many other pangolin species, is illegally taken from the wild. Unfortunately, it is falsely believed that the protective keratin scales have curative properties.
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ANI097-00153
A brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis).
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ANI073-00506
An Arizona chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater tumidus) at the Tulsa Zoo.
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ANI073-00507
An Arizona chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater tumidus) at the Tulsa Zoo.
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ANI073-00508
An Arizona chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater tumidus) at the Tulsa Zoo.
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ANI073-00509
An Arizona chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater tumidus) at the Tulsa Zoo.
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ANI073-00504
A blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus serrifer cyanogenys) at the Tulsa Zoo.
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ANI073-00505
A blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus serrifer cyanogenys) at the Tulsa Zoo.
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ANI073-00477
Granite spiny lizard (Sceloporus orcutti) at the Santa Barbara Zoo.
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ANI073-00478
Granite spiny lizard (Sceloporus orcutti) at the Santa Barbara Zoo.
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ANI073-00479
Granite spiny lizard (Sceloporus orcutti) at the Santa Barbara Zoo.
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ANI077-00445
A Mexican black kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula nigrita) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, CO.
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ANI073-00333
A Mertens’ water monitor (Varanus mertensi) at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo.
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ANI077-00342
A federally endangered Virgin Islands tree boa (Epicrates monensis granti) at the Toledo Zoo.
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SCE051-00411
A Galapagos Land Iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) on North Seymour Island, part of Galapagos National Park.
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SCE051-00397
Close up of a Galapagos Land Iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) on North Seymour Island, part of Galapagos National Park.
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SCE051-00402
A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on North Seymour Island in Galapagos National Park.
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ANI013-00144
A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer).
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ANI073-00207
Lace monitor or lace goanna (Varanus varius) at the Healesville Sanctuary in Healesville, Victoria, Australia
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ANI065-00494
Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon corais erebennus) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
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ANI073-00199
Texas horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
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SCE051-00308
A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos National Park.
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SCE051-00245
A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on Espanola Island in Galapagos National Park.
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SCE051-00157
A Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) at Santiago Island in Galapagos National Park.
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SCE051-00158
A Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) at Santiago Island in Galapagos National Park.
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SCE051-00159
A Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) at Santiago Island in Galapagos National Park.
