EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

In Lizards & Snakes: Alive!, you will see:

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• Over 60 live animals, including
• Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta)
• Chuckwallas (Sauromalus ater)
• Madagascan Giant Day Geckos (Phelsuma madagascariensis)
• Amazonian Tree Boas (Corallus hortulanus)
• Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis)
• Gila Monsters (Heloderma suspectum)
• Red Spitting Cobras (Naja pallida)


• Specimens ranging from a four-inch Tropical Girdled Lizard to a fourteen-foot Burmese Python and shown in recreated habitats complete with ponds, tree limbs, rock ledges, and live plants

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• Squamate Studio: a hands-on section in the exhibition for younger visitors and their parents/guardians


• A variety of fossil specimens and fossil casts. Among the highlights is a fossil cast of Megalania, the largest-known terrestrial squamate, which attained lengths up to 9.5 meters (30 feet).


• A cladogram (CLAY-doh-gram), from the Greek word meaning “branch”—a diagram that maps evolutionary relationships among the squamates.
  
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  • The word squamate comes from the Latin squama, meaning scale, and scales are one thing all squamates have in common.