Return of the Reptiles, Lizards & Snakes Alive

Thursday, March 11 9:09 am

The real monsters, dragons, and basilisks are back! More than 60 live lizards and snakes from five continents are now displayed in exquisitely prepared habitats. In addition to the live animals, the exhibit uses interactive stations, significant fossils, and an award-winning video to acquaint visitors with the world of the Squamata, the group that includes lizards and snakes.

In Lizards & Snakes: Alive! visitors will see representatives of 26 species, including crowd favorites such as the Gila Monster, Eastern Water Dragon, Green Basilisk, Veiled Chameleon, Blue-tongued Skink, Rhinoceros Iguana, Eastern Green Mamba, and a fourteen-foot Burmese Python. The Water Monitor habitat is equipped with a web camera, enabling virtual visitors from around the globe to observe the daily behavior of one of the largest living species of lizard on earth.

Join Darrel Frost, curator of Lizards & Snakes: Alive!, as he walks through the exhibit and describes some of the fascinating traits these creatures possess.

The exhibit is now open and runs through September 6 at the American Museum of Natural History.

AMNH Partners With National Parks

Thursday, July 23 4:30 pm

The U.S. National Park Service has partnered the American Museum of Natural History to store endangered species DNA for future research. This five-year renewable agreement allows frozen tissue samples from various threatened and endangered park animals to reside in the Museum’s Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research.

George Amato, Director of the Museum’s Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, recently joined Bert Frost, Associate Director of Natural Resource Stewardship and Science at the National Park Service, and Darrel Frost, Associate Dean of Science for Collections at the Museum, as they signed the agreement.