Favorite Reptiles?

[TheGreatCthulhu]

If any of you are fans of reptiles*, this is the thread to share your favorites!

For lizards, I prefer common green basilisks, leopard geckos, bearded dragons, blue-tongued skinks, and all monitor lizards.

For turtles, I love red-eared sliders, Hawksbill sea turtles, and box turtles.

And for snakes, I'm the weird one in my family for actually liking snakes. My favorites are ball pythons, and for wild varieties, I like rattlesnakes.

* Please, no tarantulas or scorpions, salamanders, newts, frogs, or toads, because for some reason while pet shops include them alongside reptiles, they aren't reptiles at all.

We respect taxonomic classifications here!

Plus, I'm an arachnophobe.

 

[Saint Ravenboo]

If any of you are fans of reptiles*, this is the thread to share your favorites!

For lizards, I prefer common green basilisks, leopard geckos, bearded dragons, blue-tongued skinks, and all monitor lizards.

For turtles, I love red-eared sliders, Hawksbill sea turtles, and box turtles.

And for snakes, I'm the weird one in my family for actually liking snakes. My favorites are ball pythons, and for wild varieties, I like rattlesnakes.

* Please, no tarantulas or scorpions, salamanders, newts, frogs, or toads, because for some reason while pet shops include them alongside reptiles, they aren't reptiles at all.

We respect taxonomic classifications here!

Plus, I'm an arachnophobe.

You would hate the fact that I planned on making a thread about documenting the spider webs I find around my neighborhood.

My sister has a corn snake, we named him Mr. Snakey, but other than that, I'll have to think of my favorites. There's so many varieties of reptiles. After all, I believe I believe they've been on this earth longer than mammals have. I could be wrong about that.

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

I believe I believe they've been on this earth longer than mammals have. I could be wrong about that.

Depends on what we're defining as mammal.

If we mean mammal as we commonly believe, then yes, reptiles have been on this planet longer, as mammals are relatively recent.

But if we mean the common ancestors of all mammals being synapsids, then no, as synapsids and diapsids (phylogenetic term for reptiles) have been around as long as each other have.

 

[Daku Rinku]

I love the Corn Snake:

The serpent is the colors of Fall!

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

For my favorite reptiles, here's the ones I referred to in my original post.

Spoiler: Lizards.

The common green basilisk:

Leopard geckos:

Bearded dragon:

Blue-tongued skink:

And for varanids, or monitor lizards, my particular favorite is the Nile Monitor.

Spoiler: Snakes.

Ball python:

Diamondback rattlesnake:

Spoiler: Turtles.

Red-eared sliders:

Hawksbill sea turtle:

Box turtles:

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

I love the Corn Snake:

The serpent is the colors of Fall!

That's a hella cute corn snake!

 

[Guinea]

Godzilla.

Then it's Mecha Godzilla.

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

Godzilla.

Then it's Mecha Godzilla.

I have..... quite a lot to say about Godzilla.

Hence why I started my series on the taxonomy of dragons.

 

[Daku Rinku]

Albino Alligator:

I love how it makes their scales look like bones of a spine.