Clint Laidlaw
Clint Laidlaw is the biologist and educator behind Clint’s Reptiles, sharing pet-reptile advice, animal science and evolution on YouTube and at Clint’s Reptile Room in Utah.
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Clint’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus his backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
Known for
- Top 5 Reptiles For Beginners2017 · Host and beginner-reptile guide
YouTube - Top 5 Reptiles For Beginners2025 · Host, updated beginner-reptile guide
YouTube - This Question Cost Me a Year of My Life...2026 · Host, primate evolution explainer
YouTube - This Changes EVERYTHING We Thought We Knew About Snapping Turtles2026 · Host, snapping turtle behavior episode
YouTube
Overview
- Known as
- Clint’s Reptiles
- Work
- Biologist, educator and YouTube host
- Based in
- Springville, Utah
- Education
- PhD in Biology Education; master’s in Evolutionary Ecology
- Channel debut
- March 24, 2017, with Top 5 Reptiles For Beginners
- In person
- Clint’s Reptile Room, created with his wife Leisha
Mini bio
How it started.
Clint grew up near a Colorado lake, keeping tadpoles before garter snakes. Teaching later brought animals back into his working life: he wanted students to meet living creatures in class. His friends Jason and Will suggested a reptile YouTube channel, with Jason learning to edit and Will’s wife Michelle filming. Their modest original plan was a beginner list and follow-up videos about the animals.
Finding his audience.
Clint’s Reptiles launched in 2017. His pet-reptile introductions helped the channel grow into full-time work, with a shirt, tie and familiar greeting becoming part of the format. He and Leisha developed a hands-on venue in Springville, moving into the Reptile Room in December 2019.
The teacher behind the desk.
His official biography lists a doctorate in Biology Education, a master’s in Evolutionary Ecology and teaching experience at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University. The Reptile Room grew from a family dream into a place where visitors can hold and feed animals, with the aim of encouraging care for the natural world.
Beyond pet reptiles.
The channel also explores evolutionary relationships, unfamiliar animals and prehistoric life. Recent episodes range from primate classification and caecilians to a dinosaur-film discussion with paleontologist Ethan Harvey.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026The End of Oak Street - Was It Terrible? Zoologist and Paleontologist ReactHost, with paleontologist Ethan Harvey
- 2026This Question Cost Me a Year of My Life...Host, primate evolution episode
- 2025Top 5 Reptiles For BeginnersHost, updated edition
- 2017Top 5 Reptiles For BeginnersHost, channel debut
Quotes
We don’t protect what we don’t love, and we don’t love what we don’t know.Clint’s Reptile Room, About Us
The guiding idea on his official site connects positive animal encounters with learning and conservation.
Trivia
- His first pets were seven bullfrog tadpoles caught in a lake.
- He names Tyrannosaurus rex as his favorite extinct dinosaur.
- His first reptile-YouTuber collaboration was with Emily Roberts of Snake Discovery.
- He says meeting a false water cobra during that collaboration helped make it his favorite snake.
Find Clint
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