Anonymous asked:
your pfp looks like an AI generated image
I'm not sure what to do with that information. Would this one be better?
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Mallee Worm-Lizard (Aprasia inaurita), family Pygopodidae, Northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Photograph by Jack Bilby
What a cute gecko!
#Pygopodidae#this is a legless gecko#if this is your first time learning about the existence of legless geckos#you’re welcome#and also#what a great first one#I learned about the existence of this family on tumblr about seven years ago#and it changed my life#truly glorious creatures#also not completely legless#but then neither are boas and pythons#so#what does it matter?
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School of Katsushika Hokusai, Edo Period
Beautiful.
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sure. yeah i'll believe that
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the paper goes on to describe the frog species Hyloscirtus tolkieni, so named because "the amazing colours of the new species evoke the magnificent creatures that seem to only exist in fantasy worlds."
That is the good shit right there.
Anonymous asked:
Hi! Love your blog and your work! What do you know about these guys? Are false eyes common in amphibians?
https://www.tumblr.com/vintagewildlife/734070740510507008/cuyaba-dwarf-frog-physalaemus-nattereri-showing?source=share
Yeah false eyes are really quite common in amphibians. We normally call them inguinal spots, which is a fancy way of saying hip spots. They show up in hundreds of species across numerous families. Few are quite as developed as Physalaemus nattereri, but e.g. Plethodontohyla ocellata is also pretty impressive.
[this fantastic figure from Noble's Biology of the Amphibia, 1931]
Anonymous asked:
Give us the frogyist frog
Chacophrys is pretty peak frog.
Anonymous asked:
Forg
Show me your best boi
This Gephyromantis ambohitra is singing his heart out. What a good chap.
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Origami Phyllobates terribilis, based in the original design by Satoshi Kamiya, modified and folded by me with a 27cm square of yellow unryu paper and black tissue paper.
How in the actual-
WHAT‽
look at the delightful little men i found today
i thought the first one was the smallest i would ever find. i was Wrong
Delightful indeed! First looks to be Anolis sagrei, and the gecko looks to be Gehyra mutilata by my guess, though hard to say on either from these pictures.
here is a common frog (rana temporaria) for you to appreciate, i have named her Wide Woman and she has been in my pond for the last five days
GOSH.
she is wide, isn't she!
What a handsome lass!
Anonymous asked:
I'm here to make a friends and some fun here 😄😁🥰
I'm here to spread the Good Newts
#answers by Mark#found this little friend on the cycle path today#showed it to my son#he was *delighted*#newt#anon#I am guessing this was supposed to be spam#but here we are#interesting that there is so much more spam in tumblr's messenger than in asks#I get random Hi messages about four times a day#I am guessing 99% of these are fake#but if you are genuinely trying to reach me and you just say hi and leave it at that#the conversation is getting deleted#so be more human#this has been another tag rambl#as it was intended
Anonymous asked:
Do you have any recommendations for a beginner trying to learn evolution
CrashCourse Zoology and Biology are good places to start. After that, Coursera and other MOOCs might be able to scratch the itch. A series of textbooks could also help, starting general biology and steadily working towards textbooks about evolution specifically.
I learned a lot about evolution as a kid by listening to Stephen Jay Gould essays on audio cassette, even without fully understanding what I was listening to. The key is exposure, and, if you want to go further than the basics, reinforcing what you hear with proper teaching/academic learning.
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Welcome to Build-a-Frog!
we-willbe-thin
gUyS please click the link you won’t regret it
Its been so long since Build-a-Frog came across my dash. I needed them today :)
im sobbing omg
Please do build a frog its very nice
This was my first build a frog experience! And IT WAS SO LOVELY!
Wow. This is some of the best tumblr content I've seen in my long, long days on this hellsite.
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Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?
I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:
It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.
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Since the other ask didn't seem to cover it, Why is Live being kept as a feature? It's almost universally hated, there's a post that circulates every week reminding us to turn it off so we don't forget to do so, the only feature live has is porn users which appeals to small portions of the user base but otherwise isn't worth the hassle. Why is this feature still Around? I'm genuinely wondering, this isn't meant as an attack, I just do not understand how a feature so detested could possibly be beneficial to the site.
We have a contractual obligation to try to make Live as successful as possible through the end of the year, and we'll do our best there. By January, aligned with the new more focused approached of Tumblr teams, we'll re-assess whether it should be part of the Tumblr app anymore. That's all I can really say about it, and I hope that answers your question and gives you something to look forward to in 2024.
Good news folks, live is going away if anyone remotely sensible is involved in this re-assessment.
Funny that there isn’t a clause in that contract that says ‘if the feature is losing us and everyone else involved money, turns out to make tumblr unquestionably worse, and drives users to leave the site, we axe it’. Feels like that should be a standard clause when services like this are being negotiated into a platform.
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btw, if you send me nice asks and i don't answer them publicly its bc i'm hoarding them like a corvid to read on rainy days
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i don't care if they aren't fish i'm asking should they be fish
official fish post
But whales *are* fish. Specifically secondarily aquatic sarcopterygian fish belonging to the mostly terrestrial clade called Mammalia.