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meet cute: it's raining and I see your battered bleeding body lying in the mud and I kick it slightly to see if you're dead

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Greater Arid Land Katydid (Neobarrettia spinosa), male, family Tettigoiidae, Central TX, USA

Omnivorous (feeding on leaves and predatory on invertebrates and small vertebrates).

They are actually a predator of low nesting songbirds!

Some individuals have red eyes, so another name for this species is the "Red-eyed Devil".

photographs by Alan Cantrell

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I love when games have a protagonist with a backstory that doesn't really jive with the actual gameplay and it just kinda makes it seem like there's something wrong with them. Like Gordon Freeman is a 27 year old theoretical physicist and he holds grenades like he's been waiting his entire life to pull the pin on one. what did he see in his postdoc

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#037 - #038. The Vulpix line originates from deserts, and their presence is said to turn any forest they settle in into arid wastelands. To prevent this, people build shrines and place offerings to quell their spirits.

A Vulpix can be aged by the number of tails, but Ninetales's age is determined by the length of their tail braid

Sponsored by @solluxofrose, design process undercut

I know the line is based on red foxes, but i based them on rupell's fox, a thin desert fox species. I decided to start with study their face structure and body shapes to start:

Canines are always super tricky for me, but i really like the shape of these guys and their lanky body structures

I started drawing their designs on digital this time, and while vulpix's was pretty straight forward, I took a bit to figure out the tails for ninetales. drawing 9 tails while still keeping a recognizable silhouette is rough

I decided to go with the braid, as I think it keeps the thin silhouette flowing better, and it felt like an interesting progression to the curled vulpix tail: both pokemon have their tails tied in a way, but vulpix has a more jovial, baby version, while ninetales seems to intentionally tie their tails in a braid as a show of control.

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Japanese Giant Salamander (Andrias japonicus), family Cryptobranchidae, endemic to Japan

One of the largest amphibians in the world, growing to a length of 1.5 m (~5 ft).

Vulnerable

"During the survey in Nov, we found 28 Japanese Giant Salamanders within only 1km range. The largest salamander we found on the day was 108cm (first photo). He has been constantly caught for 38 years since he was caught first time. The first time his measurement was 83cm. Researchers expect he should be at least 70 years old now. The second photo is a medium-sized specimen with characteristic colour of this species, light yellow background with obvious black spots. The research centre has been conducting the salamander's survey for many years. But they still need financial support for the activity.

Photographs by Korp Sam

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apple man plush I made

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what if American Psycho was wet?

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the nebraskan cave mouse isa special type of animal that grows underground and lays its eggs in the deep below. it becomes 100 feet tall but its mouse feet so its a bit smaller rhan you would think

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Top 10 most racist land acknowledgments, ranked by how extinct the author believes the indigenous inhabitants are

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A pair of Ancyloceras (a heteromorph ammonite) drift along the coral reefs of the early Cretaceous waiting for food to pass them by.

Artwork by Adam_RL

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Quetzalcoatlus northropi of the late Cretaceous Period. With a wingspan comparable to a Cessna 172 aircraft, at about 11 meters and possibly the largest-ever flying animal.

Art by D.W. Miller

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day 3! here’s gordon at the citadel

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Barn Owls (Tyto alba), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, NW USA

photograph by Izzy Edwards

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