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holy SHIT I love bugs and arachnids and fish and marsupials and reptiles and amphibians and stuff. What an amazing world we live in I’m so glad I get to exist at the same time as all of these amazing creatures and also you. Great job big dawg keep it up.

You said it friend 🥹

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NEW !!! SNAKE DISCOVERED

ITS CALLED THE LIMESTONE EYELASH PIT VIPER. THAT iS SO CUTE. ITS SO PRETTY

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Red-eyed Crocodile Skink (Tribolonotus gracilis), family Scincidae, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Rizki Supendi & Piranhapirate

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Soggy creature

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Dinosaurs are weird

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Shit like this is insanely rude and I hate that 1. Having this attitude about bugs & 2. Proudly proclaiming that you have this attitude about bugs (and doing so entirely unprompted on top of that) (especially in response to an Entomologist!!!!!) is considered a normal and acceptable thing to do

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Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth, new study shows

Komodo dragons, the world’s largest species of lizard, have iron-tipped teeth that help them to rip their prey apart, according to new research. The metal is concentrated in the cutting edge and tips of their curved, serrated teeth, staining them orange, scientists wrote in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Komodo dragons are native to Indonesia and weigh around 80 kilograms (176 pounds) on average. They eat almost any kind of meat and are known as deadly predators...

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/science/komodo-dragons-iron-teeth-scli-intl/index.html

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HEY GUYS CONTACT YOUR SENATORS/REPRESENTATIVES VIA THIS EASY TOOL ON PET ADVOCACY NETWORK TO BRING TO THEIR ATTENTION THE BAN ON (CERTAIN) REPTILE HEAT LAMPS AND UVB BULBS

This is disastrous for reptile keepers.

Due to a regulation enacted by the Department of Energy (DOE) back in 2022 that aimed at improving energy efficiency for lightbulbs found in the average American home, companies that make essential pet products like heat lamps for reptiles, are now being told to remove them from shelves across America because of the light bulbs they contain. That means removing access to vital lamp products that pet owners need to make sure their pets stay healthy and thriving.  

Also remember to customize the message so it's not just the same endless emails to their offices, I changed the subject and wrote a personal message at the top.

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PSA: we need to save the bali myna

today i got really mad out of nowhere about this and decided that if nobody is going to talk about these birds and their conservation, i will. the bali myna is a small bird found only in bali. they are critically endangered -  fewer than 100 adults exist in the wild. (and there’s around 1000 in captivity) the biggest threat towards the bali myna is likely its demand in the captive bird trade - they can fetch extremely high prices on the black market.’

plus, they look like this

so how can you help?

donate to bali safari marine park - currently maintaining a captive gene pool of bali mynas + boosting their population

donate to begawan foundation -  breeding and releasing bali mynas, and educating local communities on these birds

educate others on responsible pet purchases + avoid feeding into the pet trade that endangers so many beautiful species.

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don’t piss me off. you don’t know who you are messing with.

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Namib Web-footed Gecko (Pachydactylus rangei), family Gekkonidae, found in the deserts of SW Africa

photograph by Jadene Chapman

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I literally cannot express to you how important it is to never touch a wild animal that you can’t definitively identify

(That is NOT a scarlet king it’s a venomous coral snake that very politely allowed this person to live)

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"Various urodele amphbians, not all to the same scale." The life of vertebrates. 1962.

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