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  • A Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) makes a rare appearance above ground to munch on wildflowers. Desert tortoises spend roughly nine months a year in burrows 10 feet underground, living off stored moisture from the flowers they consume. This tortoise, approximately 20 years old, is from a preserve in the Mojave Desert near California City, California.
    DesertTortoiseFeeding.jpg
  • The track of an Allosaurus is left pressed into the sandstone near Potash, Utah. Scientists believe the dinosaur had an average length of nearly 30 feet. At the time dinosaurs roamed Utah, the area was marshy. Over time the mud that held their footprints turned to sandstone.
    DinosaurTrackAllosaurus.jpg
  • The entrance to a Mojave Desert Tortoise burrow is visible underneath a patch of brush in the Desert Tortoise Natural Area in California City, California.
    Desert-Tortoise_Burrow_7817.jpg
  • A painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) suns itself on a log deep in the wetlands of the Washington Park Aboretum in Seattle, Washington.
    PaintedTurtle_Sunning_Arboretum_2666.jpg
  • An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) swims along the surface of the water in the Florida Everglades. American alligators are found in the southeast United States. Florida and Louisiana each have alligator populations of greater than one million.
    Alligator_Swimming_Everglades_3753.jpg
  • A painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) appears to check out its own reflection in a river in the Ridgefiled National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state.
    PaintedTurtle_Ridgefield_8727.jpg
  • Only the eye and the snout of an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) rise above the waters of a large pond in the Florida Everglades. Their nostrils are at the top of their snout, allowing them to breathe while virtually their entire body is under water.
    AlligatorReflection.jpg
  • A road sign cautions drivers to watch for threatened desert tortoises, which are in danger of being crushed by cars. This sign was photographed near Pahrump, Nevada.
    Desert-Tortoise_Caution-Sign_7457.jpg
  • A Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) extends its tongue while sunning itself in the Great Basin Desert in southern Arizona. The Gila monster is the only venomous lizard native to the United States. This image is of a captive model.
    Gila-Monster_Tongue_6836.jpg
  • A male ornate tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) suns itself on a rock in a lush area near Montezuma Well in Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona.
    Lizard_Ornate-Tree_Montezuma-Well_55...jpg
  • An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) crawls in the grass in a marshy area of the Florida Everglades. American alligators are found in the southeast United States. Florida and Louisiana each have alligator populations of greater than one million.
    Alligator_Grass_Everglades_3184.jpg
  • An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) swims along the surface of the water in the Florida Everglades. American alligators are found in the southeast United States. Florida and Louisiana each have alligator populations of greater than one million.
    Alligator_Swimming_Everglades_3698.jpg
  • A side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) rests in a crack in a sandstone cliff in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument near Tuweep, Arizona.
    Lizard_SideBlotched_4594.jpg
  • A red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) rests on a log in a small inlet in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington as a Canada goose preens itself nearby.
    Slider_RedEared_Goose_Arboretum_0792.jpg
  • A common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) slithers across a log on Lodge Lake near Snoqualmie Pass, Washington.
    GarterSnake_LodgeLake_4233.jpg
  • A painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) suns itself on a log off Foster Island in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum.
    PaintedTurtleLog.jpg
  • A long-tailed sage brush lizard (Urosaurus graciosus) navigates a ledge in an area known as The Wave in the Coyote Buttes Wilderness near the Utah/Arizona border.
    Lizard_LongTailedBrush.jpg
  • Three green iguanas (Iguana iguana) sun themselves in a tree near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Green iguanas have special cells in their eyes called "double cone cells" that allow them to see ultraviolet wavelenghts of light, helping them to position themselves to receive enough UVA and UVB from sunlight.
    GreenIguanas_1828.jpg
  • An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) swims toward the observer along the Anhinga Trail in the Everglades National Park, Florida. This is the largest of the two species of alligators, and is native only to the wetlands of the Southeastern United States. The raised bumps on its back are used to store heat..
    alligator-swimming-everglades-3219.jpg
  • A common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) rests between two rocks in the Sonoran Desert near Superior, Arizona.
    Lizard_Side-Blotched_Boyce-Thompson_...jpg
  • A female Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) emerges from its burrow high in Tilden Regional Park, Orinda, California.
    Lizard_Western-Fence_Burrow_Tilden_1...jpg
  • An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) rests in a marshy area of the Florida Everglades. American alligators are found in the southeast United States. Florida and Louisiana each have alligator populations of greater than one million.
    Alligator_Resting_Everglades_3178.jpg
  • A red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) swims among the lily pads in an inlet in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington.
    Slider_RedEared_Swimming_Arboretum_0...jpg
  • A northern plateau lizard (Sceloporus undulates elongatus) blends in with the rocks along the rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado. The northern plateau lizard, which lives in rock outcrops and canyon walls, feeds on grasshoppers, crickets, leaf hoppers, flying ants, moths and other insects.
    Lizard_NorthernPlateau_GunnisonNP_20...jpg
  • A Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) walks near shrubs in the Desert Tortoise Natural Area in California City, California.
    Desert-Tortoise-Walking_7815.jpg
  • A Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) rests outside its burrow in the Desert Tortoise Natural Area in California City, California.
    Desert-Tortoise_Resting_7800.jpg
  • A red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) balances itself on an exposed log in an inlet in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington. Red-eared sliders are type of turtle native only to the southern United States, though they have been introduced in many other areas, including ponds along the Pacific coast.
    Slider_RedEared_Balanced_Arboretum_1...jpg
  • A side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) rests in a crack in a sandstone cliff in Tuweep, Arizona.
    Lizard_SideBlotched_4589.jpg
  • A human hand provides a sense of scale for an allosaurus dinosaur track near Potash, Utah. Scientists believe the dinosaur had an average length of nearly 30 feet. The area was marshy when dinosaurs roamed Utah, and the muddy footprint eventually turned to sandstone. ...There are a number of dinosaur tracks found throughout Utah. The area was swampy when dinosaurs live there. They left footprints in the mud, which later turned into sandstone.
    DinosaurTrackHand.jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) looks out from its perch in dense forest in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Perched_Yost_3925.jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) looks out from its perch in dense forest in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Perched_Yost_3597.jpg
  • Golden sunlight filters through the forest behind a barred owl (Strix varia) in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Golden-Highlights_Yost_38...jpg
  • A young barred owl (Strix varia) looks out from its perch in dense forest in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Juvenile_Yost_4148.jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) watches for food from its perch in dense forest in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Shadow-Profile_Yost_4009.jpg
  • A serval (Leptailurus serval) blends in with the grass of the savannah in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya as it hunts in the late-evening light. Servals are solitary, medium-sized cats that are active day and night, preying on rodents, small birds, insects, and reptiles.
    Kenya_Maasai-Mara_Serval_Golden-Gras...jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) looks up from its perch in dense forest in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Looking-Up_Yost_3888.jpg
  • A young barred owl (Strix varia) stretches on its perch in dense forest in Edmonds, Washington. Barred owls feed mainly on small mammals, but will also prey upon other birds, reptiles, invertibrates and amphibians if the opportunity presents itself.
    Owl_Barred_Stretching_Juvenile_Yost_...jpg
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