The Lizard King of Long Island

_{Sunday 17th November 2024}

The Lizard King of Long Island
Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said.
by Ben Goldfarb
November 16, 2024,The New Yorker, The Weekend Essay

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-lizard-king-of-long-island

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.