Finally -- snakes! # 1 (Patreon)

I've finally started drawing snakes (one of the last major vertebrate group I need to have many illustrations of). And I don't think I'm very good at it - these drawings are all pretty crude. But things will look better once many more have been done and added to the montage. Several cladograms will need doing: I'll be drawing representatives of all the extant lineages before tackling assorted extinct taxa.

The Ramphotyphlops at bottom has appeared here before. New here is the garter snake Thamnophis at left (representing Natricidae) and the rattlesnake Crotalus (one of several viperids I'll be doing). The illustrations are based on photographs. They're not to scale at the moment: the blind snake should be much smaller.

The snake section of The Big Book has yet to be finished.