#reptile groups

[fbwzoo]

Dear fucking LORD I am beyond grateful for the reptile Facebook groups. I was already in most of the needed ones - Advancing Herpetological Husbandry, Reptile Lighting, and How Not to Slay the Dragon. Last one was the immediate care info brush up and getting specifics down for set up. My post is up in there now & already gotten some really nice helpful comments, which made me nearly cry once.

Have joined another group from there, for bearded dragons with muscular dystrophy, as it's possible that's what Ed may have along with MBD. Still relatively new and not much research, but seems to be getting more common in pet store dragons due to poor breeding. So I have that group for info if needed.

And now I have money to finish immediate supply shopping, so I went to get the heat bulbs and UVB light, then wanted to double check that the light would be correct for the usage. Reptile Lighting has all of the mesh screens researched for amount of UVB blocked, which coordinates for a chart to tell you the right bulb strength for distances to ensure the right amount of UVB exposure.

Cue almost crying again bc THANK YOU THAT WAS SO EASY.

Bulbs ordered.

Oh, and Ed has a vet appointment on Monday afternoon, so we just gotta get through the weekend. Focusing on rehydration first, fixing basking spot second, and then we'll try food.

[zoetheneko]

How that one group of homies look like on presentation day when they procrastinated and didn't finish their PowerPoint on time.

[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2024 Day 11 - Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus was a lambeosaurine hadrosaur from Late Cretaceous China. It’s skull was originally found with a unicorn-like crest. For years, this was how Tsintaosaurus was reconstructed, but more recent evidence shows that the unicorn-like bone protrusion was just the rear part of a larger crest, more similar to other lambeosaurines. Like many other hadrosaurs, Tsintaosaurus likely spent most of its time walking and feeding on all fours, but could rear up on its hind legs to scout and flee from predators. It also probably lived and traveled in herds.

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus was found in the Jingangkou Formation of the Wangshi Group. Hadrosaurs were common here, and also included Laiyangosaurus and Tanius. While not found in the Jingangkou, the nearby Xingezhuang Formation also include the ceratopsian Sinoceratops, the titanosaur Zhuchengtitan, the tyrannosaur Zhuchengtyrannus, the caenagnathid Anomalipes, the ankylosaur Sinankylosaurus, and the giant hadrosaur Shantungosaurus, some of which could have had some overlap with Tsintaosaurus.

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[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #500

🎉🐟🎊500 daily fish facts reached! 🎊🐟🎉

And I could not have done it without you.

🐟🐟🐟 Thank you. 🐟🐟🐟

From the bottom of my ranch-filled heart.

Perhaps this much celebration is already enough, let's move onto the actual fact...

General fish fact!

The very first animals that could be considered fish appeared around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period. They've been evolving and diversifying ever since! With 35 000 discovered extant species and counting, there are more species of fish than there are species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined.

[t00thpasteface]

most insane side effect of getting further into the marine bio degree and taking so many classes about fish evolution and anatomy is that now i see every terrestrial vertebrate as just an extremely derived lobe-finned fish. and i don't mean in the abstract sense of "i consider them fish" or even "i refer to them as fish" i mean i look at a cat or a deer or a pigeon and my brain just superimposes a basal sarcopterygian onto their anatomy and goes "yeah. that's a highly derived fish." like at this point i'm worried that someday i'm gonna accidentally refer to my lungs as my swim bladder

[staysaneathome]

The reason Pasha N. is stuck filing stimuli in the evidence locker is because if she ever went out for a walk and found Madame Loathing’s Home for Wayward Interests, all the kids would be freed and adopted within the hour

[frostbitegator]

Hey, I made a scalie appreciation Tumblr Community. Reptilian and reptilian adjacent enjoyers welcome to join and share stuff to it at your leisure!

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/scalies-anonymous

[little-red-fool]

I think it’s time I start to slowly introduce more characters from D’s group; this is J (she/they), she met D when they were both 8 years old so they’ve been bestfriends for over 200,000 years. She’s also a fallen angel. Her sacred animal is a snake, whereas D’s is a fox.

[dare-to-dm]

One thing people need to understand about me is that I am always role-playing. Even and especially when I'm playing board games where that's not the point. So to me, games where the mechanics have literally nothing to do with the framing device are kind of absurd.

[lesbiansupavillain]

We took Mista B to a convention last weekend ♡＾▽＾♡ He was sooo popular! My partner and I did a couple cosplay photoshoots with him, but until those come back here’s some pics of everyone’s favorite little guy

(photo by az.fireshots)

[number1prime]

Baraka is top tier best boi and dad bro. Screw anyone spreading otherwise.

Our mans got his redemption (arc) and good guy treatment, and not anti-hero because what brutal “ends justify the means stuff” is all in his fighting style, biological weapons, and fighting attitude he has and uses, well he can’t even control or even asked for it ssoooo. He even says he knows he’s the one with the most time and transformation who has Tarkat and took that super mutation in stride and got super strength and retractable respawning arm blades, saw some people needed help, would get very little in return, and said “BET. Let’s jump their asses.”

The Baraka Syzoth discussions then fight then more discussions? They’re tag teaming against what turned out to be (and incidentally was) Ashrah, and then Ermac? And when Ashrah & Syzoth get a chance to have a new home our man don’t even say shit because everyone knows he’s going back to his people. Johnny even says he knows Baraka’s home is in that realm.

Baraka being a kickass fighter who SPARES his opponents and enemies even if they situationally or otherwise deserved death and he got talked down or chose himself not to kill? CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, YA LOVE TO SEE IT!

Then his new son bro Syzoth risks his own recently FUCKING HEAVILY EARNED AND DESERVED, position, power, & respect to let The “king/Chief” of Tarkatans meet the new Empress, and all he asks is supplies and no scorn for his people. Man got his people some help, and now the disease could even be stabilizing, since him & Mileena seem to embrace it for the right reasons, going batshit bloody feral to defend your friends and family, and it seems to be livable, if still traumatizing, but able to be utilized.

Mileena Syzoth Baraka & Ashrah bout to be strutting down a runway showing of all of the teeth, eyes, tails, bony ridges, scales, and not giving a fuck that these beautiful people deserve to continue to not give.

In short, Baraka Syzoth & Mileena have never been better, NRS are kicking ass again, and our babies are finally jobbers no longer.

[bestanimal]

what about recently extinct like last 100 years or so like the Tasmanian Tiger/Thylacine ?

Nah. That’s still a lot of species that I would have to add on to the like 2 million species I’m also trying to give an equal chance to. Plus where would I even determine the cutoff point of recent enough to be recently extinct? The only exceptions I would make are for animals which are still extant but are functionally extinct, like the Vaquita and Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle.

[rulesforthedance]

He loves to sleep like this

He's fine there's nothing wrong with him he just likes to sleep like that!

[fbwzoo]

Here's the beardie mlems I promised! Jack stayed back a bit so as not to upset him while he was eating. He ate a full 2ml of syringe food today!!

[michael-rosskothen]

Homo Habilis and Titanoboa

[savage-rhi]

Fuchsia 😂