Education
  • Ph.D., University of Kentucky,, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A., 1969

Professor Emeritus of Biology and Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University.

Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Carl Ernst is a world renown snake expert and has written several books including the award-winning Turtles of the World (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), Snakes of the United States and Canada (Smithsonian Books, 2003), and Turtles of the United States and Canada (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd. ed. 2009).