herpetologist

[hur-pi-tahl-uhj-ist]

noun

1. an expert in herpetology.

Example Sentences

BD is driving one of the great mass extinctions of the current era — and yet now researchers believe that a virus may help herpetologists develop a cure.

From Salon

“This is a very thorough study, and I full trust the genetic results,” says Wolfgang Böhme, an honorary staff member and senior herpetologist at the Museum Koenig in Germany in an email.

From National Geographic

Using 3D x-ray scans of their mouths, herpetologist William Ryerson of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine identified two distinct groups, each correlated with different methods of striking prey.

From Science Magazine

Over the past few years, this herpetologist at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has peered into those mouths, analyzing the teeth’s shape, position, and size, and filmed them in action.

From Science Magazine

In 2001, Joseph Slowinski, a herpetologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, died 30 hours after he was bitten by a small venomous snake in the mountainous jungles of northern Myanmar.

From Los Angeles Times