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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

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my dad took some ancestry tests and eventually found out who his father was (and that he has 5+ siblings who are also finding all of this out) and honestly it's been pretty bizarre and emotional so far, naturally

but one of the biggest changes for me is no longer having to give the whole spiel of "oh i know i'm racially ambiguos but hey there's a whole story behind it because this that and here's my father's backstory"

like no i... i just have a grandpa from Nigeria now

...that's way less mysterious >:(

edit: my brother has made a tiktok on the whole situation

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Source: lilochipie

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Bones and Spock!

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That's an imposter! This is a porcelain crab, which isn't actually a true crab. They're filter-feeding crustaceans very similar to crabs, but with a different number of legs. The flat claws, used for camouflage and intimidation more than physical force, are a characteristic of the group.

Today's crab is: confusing colors