New Million Dollar Spider | Simaetha Species

The New Million Dollar Spider? Simaetha sp There’s some furor over The Simaetha species, a purple and gold jumping spider of Thailand. There are roughly eighteen species within Simaetha currently, it’s classified as a True Spider more on True Spiders can be found here Of Spiders & Men. According to one source the entire genre of Simaetha is native to the Australasian region with the only […]


Turtles, Tortoises, and Terrapins

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles As some of us are aware there’s yet another installment of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (affiliate link) coming out soon. We’d like to remind our Tribe this is a perfect time for outreach with the younger herpers by sharing with them. We all enjoy a great movie. However, many parents in an […]


Of Spiders and Men: Myths and Mysteries of Arachnids

There’s been a lot of talk of the new Spider-Man movie which is reported to be released in the next two years. Most of us are familiar with the ‘Spiderman’Agama (Agama mwanze) with its red and blue coloration might have inspired Steve Ditko to create the costume for Peter Parker and the Marvel Comic universe. […]