Natural history educator and friendly neighborhood native plant monger. Mostly reblogs, occasionally original art and pics. @babbling-starling is my fiction side blog, catch me on Society6 and Etsy as LaughingThrush.
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Dwarf Plated Lizard (Cordylosaurus subtessellatus), family Gerrhosauridae, Northern Cape, South Africa
photograph by Chad Keates
#Five lined skink lookalikeeeee#apparently they’re not even in the same family?#is this a common color scheme I’m not aware of. Do these guys lose the blue as adults too
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Kaprosuchus or The Boar Croc, a genus of Mahajangasuchid crocodyliform from Upper Cretaceous Niger, Africa.
It had an estimated length of about 6 m.
artwork by James Gurney
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2024: The bizarre but spectacular Icelandic waterfall that is Brúarfoss, found about 10 min drive southwest of Geysir.
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they're done! a little study of psittacosaurus sibiricus. i really like them and wanted to explore and learn more about their anatomy in the process!
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hey don’t cry. spiro the bald eagle failing at catching a crab, okay?
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Gray Crowned-Crane Balearica regulorum
11/11/2023 San Diego Zoo Safari Park, California
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My aim is to post a photo one day in which the bird is only a pixel.
Reiherente ♂️ (tufted duck) am Neuen See, Stuttgart-West.
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On this Scavenger Sunday we visit a northern raven enjoying an orange. That was stolen from bears.
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i went crazy trying to find your hallucigenia is with you post awhile back so i made this to cope
Oh my god this is litteraly beautiful, a work of art.
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Crimson Chat (Epthianura tricolor), male, family Meliphagidae, order Passeriformes, Australia
Photograph by Darren Stephens
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Red and yellow leaf miner moth, Macarostola miniella, Gracillariidae
Found on the North Island of New Zealand
Photos 1-7 by invertebratist and 8 (for scale) by stephen_thorpe
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Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus), raising a ruckus!!!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Rio Grande Valley of South TX, USA
photograph by Jeff Meaux
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Little Woodswallows (Artamus minor), family Artamidae, order Passeriformes, Western Australia
photograph by Mustafa Sözen
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Laughing Falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, QR, Mexico
photograph by Douglas Faulder
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