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Chiggers, larvae of trombiculid mitesLizards have pockets within their skin where chiggers accumulate. These pockets offer ideal living conditions. Each pocket has thick walls that repair quickly
Snake skin
Varanus gouldii, Goulds monitorPlate 151 from Natural History of Victoria (1887) by Sir Frederick McCoy
Varanus eremius and Varanus gilleriRusty desert monitor (Varanus eremius) and pigmy mulga monitor (Varanus gilleri). Plate 8 from Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia (1896)
Lacerta viridis, green lizardPlate 38 from Proc. Zoological Society London, 1884 of various views of a green lizard. Held in the Zoology Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Pentalinon luteum, hammock vipers tailIllustration by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) from Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Reptile specimens in the Darwin CentreVarious reptile specimens stored in spirit in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London
Tropidolaemus wagleri, green pit viperAlso known as the temple viper or Waglers pit viper. It is a tree dwelling snake found in South-east Asia. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London
Man wearing snake, 1930sThis young man, possibly a junior member of the Zoology Department, is posing with a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) that presumably had just arrived at the Museum
Open case with snake skeleton, 1939. The Natural History MuThis Indian python skeleton, Python molurus, is still on display today
Raper drawing No. 10An illustration of Cobras, a fortified island close to the city in Rio de Janeiro 1789
Opheodrys sp. green snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Green Snake
Elaphe guttata, corn snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Corn Snake
Thamnophis sp. garter snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Green Spotted Snake
Thamnophis sp. ribbon-snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Ribbon Snake
Nerodia erythrogaster, copperbelly snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Copperbelly Snake
Crotalus sp. water viperHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Water Viper
Farancia sp. mud snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled Wampum Snake
Crotalus adamanteus, eastern diamondback rattlesnakeDrawing 60 (Ewan 50) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram
Crotalus sp. brown viper
Pogono barbata, bearded dragonDrawing 361 from the Watling Collection titled Native name Ngarrang by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797
Bird, leaves and chameleon designDrawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. The image also appears in The Gilded Canopy
Crotalus sp. rattlesnakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Rattlesnake
Thamnophis sauritus, spotted ribbonsnakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Spotted Ribbon-Snake
Cemophora coccinea, scarlet snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Bead Snake
Masticophis flagellum, coachwhip snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Coach-Whip Snake
Varanus varius, lace monitor lizardDrawing 365 from the Watling Collection by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797
Crotalus sp. black viperHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Black Viper
Serpentes (suborder), snakeWatercolour 39 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)
Storeria sp. brown snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled Little Brown Bead Snake
Lizard specimen held in the Darwin CentreLizard specimen in a spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London
Nerodia sipedon, water snakeA group of North American water snakes neatly coiled to fit into a storage jar. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London
Naja haje haje, Egyptian cobraAn Egyptian cobra emerging from a ceramic urn and coiling into its characteristic aggressive hissing stance
Iguana delicatissima, West Indian iguanaWest Indian iguana in a specimen jar held at the Natural History Museum, London
SalamandersPlate 8 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae (1622) by C. Flegel
Coracias temminckii, purple-winged rollerPlate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
Bardick SnakeOne of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert
Coluber laticaudatus, colubrine amphibious sea snakeFf. 170. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated coluber laticaudatus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Torvosaurus clawA fossil claw once belonging to the dinosaur, Torvosaurus whose name means savage lizard. It was a carnivore which lived during the upper Jurassic period. Its fossils have been found in Colorado, USA
Chamaeleo calyptratus, veiled chameleonA dried (stuffed) specimen of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) native to South West Arabia, in the vecinity of the Yemen and Saudi Arabia borderline
Varanus komodoensis, Komodo dragonSpecimen of a Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard in the world on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London
HydraIllustration of the Hydra, a Greek mythical beast that had seven serpent heads. Plate 82 from Thesaurus, Vol 3, by Albertus Seba, 1758
Desert lizard, Abu DhabiA desert lizard sitting on a bush photographed in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Raphidia sp. snakeflySnakeflies are so called because of their ability to raise their long necks above the rest of their body. They grow to approximately 20mms long and feed on small insects such as aphids
Tangara chilensis, paradise tanager and snakeHand coloured engraving, by George Edwards (1694- 1773), 1759. Paper size: 285 x 120 mm. Original artwork held by the Natural History Museum
Sea-serpent attacking a vesselFig 67 from Mythical Monsters, 1886 by Charles Gould
Dendroaspis angusticeps, green mambaPhotograph of the skull of a green mamba, showing the snakes upper jaw fangs
Bogus fossil lizardGIWL108 (Geologisches Institut, Universit� urzburg Lugensteine number 108). This image shows a bogus fossil lizard (or salamander) eating an insect. Photographed by Paul Taylor
