Lizards & snakes: alive! Opens Saturday, July 1.(At the Museum: American Museum of Natural History)

Publication: Natural History

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Snakes and their slithering and scurrying friends have always had, well, an image problem. But Lizards & Snakes: Alive! an engaging, family-friendly exhibition opening July 1, sheds new light on these magnificent, much-maligned creatures--lizards and their legless cousins, the snakes. Some 60 live examples of this group, known as a whole as squamates, will be on view, up close and personal, in meticulously re-created habitats with natural features from rock ledges to plants to...

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