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Pictured here alongside two crayfish burrow chimneys is a large, gravid Kirtland's Snake (Clonophis kirtlandii) discovered at a previously unknown site within the Grand Prairie Division of Illinois.

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Kirtland’s Snake

ByTracy Karplus
September 13, 2023

Kirtland’s Snakes are perhaps most well-known for their microhabitat associations with burrowing crayfishes, where they traverse the aquatic-fossorial and predator-prey boundary in the dark, flooded underground labyrinths excavated by their crayfish hosts.

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Timber Rattlesnake

ByTracy Karplus
August 14, 2023

Timber rattlesnakes are a species of conservation concern throughout much of their distribution. The reasons for this range from habitat loss to direct persecution.

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Carolina Pygmy Rattlesnakes

ByTracy Karplus
July 18, 2023

Pygmy Rattlesnakes range throughout the southeastern United States, occupying densely vegetated areas within flatwoods, sandhills, and wetland ecotones. -Samantha Dillon

A light shines on a Sonoran Desert Toad in the night, tarantula legs are protruding from its mouth.

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Sonoran Desert Toad

ByTracy Karplus
June 14, 2023

This Sonoran Desert Toad (Incilius alvarius) was photographed on a monsoon night in Arizona. If you look closely, you can still see the legs of an Desert Blonde Tarantula sticking out of its mouth.

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Spotted Turtle

ByTracy Karplus
May 12, 2023

Views:204 views “On a sunny day back in mid-April, I was hiking through one of Virginia’s remaining pond-pine…

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Aruba Island Rattlesnake

ByTracy Karplus
April 12, 2023

Views:920 views “In the summer of 2022 a few friends and I took a trip to the Dutch…

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Blanding’s Turtle

ByTracy Karplus
March 15, 2023

An endangered female Blanding’s turtle in a Massachusetts vernal pool. I took a risk taking this shot, but thankfully I was able to pull it off by just dipping the front end of my fisheye lens under the surface of the water.

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Green Palm Pit Viper

ByTracy Karplus
February 14, 2023

Views:542 views “Since I was a child I dreamed of being able to meet the green beauty and…