A family expedition into the animal kingdom

I Love Reptile started with one seven-year-old who loves animals the way other kids love spaceships, and one question: what if an encyclopedia read like a bedtime story and checked out like a science book?

So we built one. Three promises hold this site together:

• Every species is here. Not just the famous ones. All 12,650 reptile species have a page, from the king cobra to lizards so obscure that only the scientist who named them ever wrote about them. The other branches of the tree are growing next.
• The stories are true. Star animals get a legend written the way our family tells them at bedtime: short lines, big wonder. Every fact inside the story is real, verified against the scientific record, and the facts card sits right under the story so you can check us.
• You can watch it move. Our expedition films live on the animal pages and on our YouTube channel. The host is a kid on a mission; the science is checked by the grown-ups.

Who makes this

A small family crew. The junior expedition leader picks the animals and keeps us honest about what is actually interesting. The grown-ups write, verify, and press the buttons. We keep names off the internet; the animals get the spotlight.

Where the science comes from

Classification and species data come from The Reptile Database, the scientific catalogue of every living reptile, used under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Photos, where they appear, are free-licensed and credited. The full list is on the data and photo credits page.