Chris Mattison

Introduces different types of snakes including insights on their development, what they eat, and how they behave.

Explores chameleon evolution and classification, describing how they fit into life's evolutionary tree and revealing their close relations.

The subject of this narrative is the generic snake. Intended for amateur herpetologists and general naturalists the work treats the origin, evolution and classification of snakes and then discusses morphology and function, how and where snakes live (habitat, adaptations and world patterns), feeding, defense, and reproduction. A chapter deals with the relationships of snakes and humans, and there are sections on taxonomy and classification with minimum...

Contains essays by scientists, biologists, and researchers that provide information about the anatomy and biological features of reptiles and amphibians around the world; and the third edition includes descriptions of 36 new families, with photographs, revised distribution maps, and family trees.