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[canisalbus]

Alright.

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[markscherz]

check out this neat little guy i found in a park in northern california! he was iridescent, so cool!

Pretty sure this is a Sceloporus, which are just awesome lizards. Did you get a chance to see the belly? Because it can be just *stunning*.

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[asterwild]

Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) can be found across much of North America and part of northeast Siberia. Most populations migrate south for the winter, forming flocks of upwards of 10,000 birds.

[mossypidder]

I recorded all this back in February and March but never got around to editing it all together, so here it finally is. Definitely not because I’m really bad at talking to a camera and I feel like the whole thing awful. I’m gonna get better pictures in the morning, because I have a migraine. But this is my little whaleshark buddy. Any name suggestions?

[triangular-static]

now that i've lured all 5 of you here with discussion of the triangle have some sketches of me figuring out how i want to draw mabel. mabel appreciation squad always and forever

oh and bill's still here too

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

His ass does NOT wanna be a Kiramager…

[kirstielol]

My beautiful G. pulchra out for a stroll. This girl hasn't molted in two freaking years now. She hasn't even eaten in at least a year. Her abdomen is huge though, so that's fine. Wish she would just molt already, I knew the grammostola genus are slow growers but damn 😮‍💨

[phillippaa]

Omg Phillip is drawing more characters than Pluto and Charon

here's dione! I did my best to replicate information i saw but I don't think i did this as well as I did with rhea. Overall I love her design tho LMAO, just idk if it's her

[thegreatestheaver]

I hate when people ask you something about an interest you have and when you answer they’re like “how do you know?” I’m going to murder you

[carrion-system]

finally posting my end of the Whiteboard with @crunchiestbug

fun fact after we ended the whiteboard, i got a nose bleed and both of our heads were killing us

[fungus-gnats]

saw a lot of fungi on a hike <3

(image IDs under the cut)

Image 1: Close-up, top view of Mycena roseilignicola (Rosy Mycena) on a mossy log. They have clear pink caps with depressed centres, and stipes (hardly visible).

Image 2: Front view of Amauroderma rugosum on the forest floor. It has a brown stipe. It has a cap with concentric zones of brown and slightly rolled black edges.

Image 3: Fungus in the Flammulina genus on a vertical piece of log, with yellow-brown caps that are darker in the centre. It is broadly convex and has stipes (hardly visible).

Image 4: Rhodofomitopsis feei on a log. It is sessile (no stipe, bracket fungi). It has a cap with concentric zones of brown, and white edges.

Image 5: Fungus in the Trametes family on a mossy log. It is sessile and its cap has concentric zones of brown, light brown, green, and brown.

Image 6: Scattered Mycena roseilignicola (Rosy Mycena) and Mycena chlorophos on decaying sections of a log. The photo is overexposed and the caps of the Rosy Mycerna appear whitish, almost light pink. They have depressed centres and visible stipes. Mycena chlorophos are small and white, with broadly convex caps and stipes.

Image 7: Top view of Mycena chlorophos on a crevice of a log. They are small and white, with slightly recurved edges and less visible stipes.

Image 8: Fungus in the Ganoderma genus on a vertical piece of wood. It is brown with a sandy texture closer to the wood, has irregular concentric zones of darker brown, and is white at the edges.

Image 9: Fungus in the Ganoderma genus on a piece of wood. It is sessile, dark pink near the wood and white or light pink at the edges. It has slightly recurved edges and a moldy-looking texture.

Image 10: A further, point-of-view shot of Scattered Mycena roseilignicola (Rosy Mycena) and Mycena chlorophos on a log. The fungi appear to be very small, clustered along some sections of the log. There are dead leaves on the forest floor and various plants in the background.

[mango-meister]

Wild.

If you like dinosaurs, Spock infodumping about his previously unknown special interest in geology and dinosaurs, Vulcans dressed as pirates, Bones knowing way more than you would expect about the Cambrian explosion, and way more descriptive gore than you would expect to be allowed in an officially licensed Star Trek novel, then this is the book for you!

[the-faultofdaedalus]

see i can’t look at that post about delicate pretentious picky rose vs chill survivor dandiliom anymore because you know what does grow fucking everywhere? rose. you know what there’s like, maybeee a couple dozen of in a hectare? dandelion.

respect the rose listen there’s Good Reason why malificent chose to make THAT plant her impenetrable wall. multiflora will live forever and will tear you to shreds while doing it.

[gammaraydeath]

oh god i have another big project due tomorrow at midnight i forgot about... typing it up now i am not too worried about getting it done but holy fuck i wish i started it sooner. not because of time constraints but because i realize now the research i did earlier this semester is... like ok i don't think i'm onto anything necessarily because people who know what they're doing have published data that goes against my own phylogenetic analysis but i would love to figure out why i got such different results. anyway the point is this whole semester i was focusing on phidippus and i just realized that my research was SCREAMING at me to focus on lyssomanes instead but i didn't notice until now. and now i want to write this paper about lyssomanes instead of phidippus but there's no time to switch :(

[gaydogmarriage]

it fucks me up that cyno has such a strong wolf motif that it suppresses the (more inspiration-accurate) jackal/dog motif. like i actually kinda appreciate the blending together of multiple different canines bc even mythology is often blurry about the distinction of similar but different animals and having both a wild jackal and a domestic dog motif to play with is fun, but the wolf is sooo forced in there. they even went as far as to replace the canis in canis aureus (scientific name of the golden jackal) with lupus. hijacked the dog to make it wolf instead. wolves are also in the canis genus it's fine!!!!!! it's all canis!! always has been!!!!!!!!!!

[donuts4evry1]

Me IRL trying to remember both the scientific names and the numerous common names that jellyfish have because I don't want to sound pretentious when I talk about my beloved jellies but I also don't want to confuse people when I talk about them either