#Newts

[weezord-leezords]

Via TheFlyGuy

[shamanicganja]

[soranatus]

"Gentle Giant of Wizard Island" 12x12", Ink and watercolor, 2023. By Emily Poole.

[mcromwell]

If you're as excited as me and @echomary about seeing a rough skinned newt then chances are we're friend material (sound on)

[markscherz]

Bad Newts: Amphibians are in Serious Trouble

My colleagues and I have just had a paper published in Nature, based on our efforts to assess almost all amphibian species for the IUCN Red Lists. The major takeaway messages:

It is a bad time to be an amphibian

Two fifths of all amphibians are threatened with extinction.

Salamanders are the most threatened group; three fifths of all salamanders are threatened with extinction!

Climate change is a major driver of amphibian declines globally

Habitat loss, especially due to agriculture, is a problem for the vast majority of amphibians

Chytrid pandemics have caused and continue to cause catastrophic declines of both salamanders and frogs

Protected areas and careful management are working as strategies! They are actively improving the outlook of some species

As many as 222 amphibian species may have gone extinct in recent times; of those, 185 are suspected extinct but not yet confirmed.

Our paper is Open Access, you can read it here!

Photo of Atelopus hoogmoedi by Jaime Culebras, used with permission

[frogliftcertified]

shut up im browsing newtflix

[sneksnack]

Amphibian Friends from the Midwest 🐸🦎

[camelidae]

Tomes upon tomes have been written about the evils of the necromantic arts, but fortunately this little guy can’t read.

[stampsshow]

So cute!!

[plaguedocboi]

Everything thawed out so I got to encounter Beasts rising from the muck

[antiqueanimals]

Reptiles, Amphibia, Fishes and Lower Chordata. Written by Richard Lydekker and others. Published in 1912.

Internet Archive

[swamp-boggler]

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens).

Apalachicola National Forest, FL.

[floweryvictory]

hot herpetologist summer i guess

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy Newt Year!

Plates XIII. IX, and X from Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain by M. C. Cooke (1825-1914) London, 1893 Biodiversity Heritage Library

[giulliadella]

Day 31 of posting cute creatures we found on our field trip:

Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) is a small species of newt that lives in cold mountainous lakes and streams. It’s recognizable by the bright orange belly and lots of spots on its lips and legs. This one is a female - males have a crest on the tail. It can’t survive for long outside of water, so we took a quick pic and put it back in its lovely little puddle.

[pansylair]

it is newt time 🕺

video id: a stylized ceramic sculpture of a male crested newt with a grey body, many black spots, an orange belly and big ol’ eyes /end id