Anyone housing and raising Leachianus Geckos knows full well that leachies do things at their own pace and rarely cooperate when their humans reach into their enclosure to do anything, let alone try to extract them from their cozy cork bark round or log. Leachies are the largest geckos on earth, and while beautiful, many are known to be enclosure territorial and prone to 'barking' or otherwise vocalizing their disapproval of any intrusions into their zone of happiness.

Referred to as the 'cleanup crew' in the reptile hobby, isopods are crustaceans (and, by extension, invertebrates), related to their sea-dwelling 'giant deep-sea isopod' cousins. Here in the Parry Sound area of Ontario, we see related Pill bugs - Armadillidium vulgare, classic 'rolly pollies'. I have many different isopods here at The Northern Herper, many of which I'll be showcasing on the…

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Gigantic multicoloured organism is visible from space and has grown for between 300 and 500 years