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I got bit by a fucking thing

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Big-headed Turtle (Platysternon megacephalum), family Platysternidae, Hong Kong

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Francis Seow Choen

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They eat a comical amount of fruit, to the point where their digestive system is specialized to handle eating potentially nothing but fruit for months on end. They'll also drink nectar and eat the occasional small bug, but over the winter they really do eat pretty much just various photogenic berries.

Cedar Waxwings by jocelynefeizo1 http://ift.tt/1RM3Kk0

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#frogs really are just mouths with legs and i love being reminded of that fact

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Sambar Deer (Rusa unicolor) and Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta Vagabunda) - Sariska National Park, India 

Photographed by Naveen Kumar Singh��

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check out this dekay's brownsnake! a tiny beast with a crazy long tongue :p

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cats know keyboard shortcuts even microsoft doesnt know about

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redo print of a piece I made last summer :)

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baby hippo but make it a baby triceratops

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Extremely specific question: what about fossilized shark teeth? They keep their original enamel, though some minerals may manage to sneak in.

Not trying to be rude, genuinely curious, why are metal and wood not just earth?

Assorted Reasons off the top of my head:

Metal in this 5-element cycle accounts for all nonliving solids- metals, rocks, minerals, etc. Wood accounts for all Alive or Dead* solids.

*Dead being "Used to be Alive" Which is a really different thing than "Was never alive in the first place" in terms of physics, biology, and epidemiology.

Wood is neither properly a solid nor liquid. It's liquids trapped by malleable solids under pressure, which is a really different thing than "Solid" in terms of physics.

To Put it in ATLA Terms: Wood is it's own Element because Neither Earthbenders nor the Swamp Water Tribe can bend it. (at least once it's dead, and the Swamp Tribe was using Still-Living Algae, the wettest plant. Deceased Tree might be beyond them).

Also how Neither Earthbenders nor bloodbenders can bend Bone.

Putting Living Tissues solidly within either Water or Earth massively unbalances the Elements IMHO, hence, the separation.

the number 5 is in the Fibonacci sequence, and I can do silly numbers things with that :)

I like drawing Pentagram more than Square

This is actually about Magical Blood typing Hell, and two characters having an insane conversation about whether or not ice is a Mineral while their friend is bleeding out :)

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Checking on what my tarantula got up to overnight.

My Tarantula:

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Mt. Mabu Bush Viper (Atheris mabuensis), family Viperidae, endemic to Mt. Mabu, Mozambique

ENDANGERED.

Venomous.

photograph by Tim's Wild World

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Took a wrong turn on a trail yesterday and ended up having to back track, (not ideal to add an extra mile in 95° blazing sun/white sand) but it ended up worth it because this little nugget mantis found me in the middle of the trail! The Little Yucatán Mantis (Mantoida maya*) is indeed little, she's full grown and barely over an inch. Not that much bigger than the tiger beetles which roam the sands. I've only seen 3, and a couple babies (which are ant mimics!), and had just one picture of an adult before today. 🖤

*This species is native to central Florida and southward into Central America, as the name implies

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I love killdeer so much. Truly. However they are some of the dumbest creatures on the planet someone help them

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crosant