Finding Dioon and “ditmarsi”, the herpetology of botany, and the importance of biodiversity expeditions
Robert Villa, Tucson Herpetological Society I was six or seven years old when I entered my great-grandmother’s kitchen in South Tucson and noticed a yellow Tupperware box in the corner. Peering in, I was captivated by a desert tortoise. And when we offered it some lettuce my fate was sealed as a herpetologist. I became […]
