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Greg and Chris joined the Reptile Rejects Podcast with no script, no prep, and no plan, alongside Erik Burke and Dr. Justin Julander. Grab a drink and hit play.
December 22, 2025
Greg's first time on the Reptile Rejects Podcast: the story behind Cornel's World, how it grew, and what goes into running the Western Canadian Reptile Expo.
December 14, 2025
Two auditions, a bearded dragon, a seven-year-old pitch coach, and an offer from Michael Wekerle: how Cornel's World ended up on Dragons' Den season 9.
March 21, 2025
How Greg turned a lifelong love of reptiles into a full-time business, and how an AXYZ CNC router helped Cornel's World build faster, cleaner, and more precise cages.
March 21, 2025
We pitched Cornel's World on Dragons' Den and wanted to see it air in season 9. A short call from 2014 to share the word and help get our episode on screen.
March 21, 2025
Avenue Calgary profiled Greg West and Cornel's World in May 2019: Dragons' Den, filming Scaled for Animal Planet, and the large-scale themed reptile habitats that followed.
May 22, 2019
SAIT's LINK magazine profiled Greg West in spring 2019: from a civil engineering job after SAIT to founding Cornel's World and starring in Animal Planet's Scaled.
April 19, 2019
Peregrine Reptile News caught up with Lucas Neter in 2019 about Scaled, the Animal Planet show that follows Greg and the Cornel's World crew building one-of-a-kind reptile habitats.
February 19, 2019
Scaled, the Calgary-filmed reptile build show starring Greg West of Cornel's World, premiered in Canada on Animal Planet on Oct. 8, 2018. The Gauntlet covered the show.
October 16, 2018
You don't need a Hollywood budget to build a slice of Pandora at home. Adapted from Condo Living's 2013 feature on terrariums, vivariums, and reptiles in condo life.
March 19, 2013
