Blessed Poison Frog (Ranitomeya Benedicta) Male Carrying Tadpole, Family Dendrobatidae, Peru

an acquaintance told me i had the subtle guardedness of someone who “learned social skills the hard way” and i’d honestly have much preferred they took out a gun and shot me

These are so fun to make

haha oh my god, I love this fuckin guy. there he goes…leaving all the bull shit behimd him.

A collection of Black Books of Hours

Black Hours, ca. 1475 (Morgan Library, New York)

Horae beatae marie secundum usum curie romane, ca. 1458 (Hispanic Society of America)

Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, ca. 1466-1476 (Austrian National Library)

Red Spotted Newt (2024) acrylic paint on panel

I keep mealworms so I have a reliable backup food source for the other animals but they’re surprisingly rewarding pets on their own terms. really fun to drop a piece of food into their enclosure and watch a writing mass of worms instantly envelop it and drag it under the substrate.

That gif of Chainsaw the Cuban crocodile galloping reminded me of how funny freshwater crocs look when doing the same thing

Despite everything the bug scuttles on

i aspire to be the type of person who not only has a favorite liverwort, but is so well-known for having a favorite liverwort that other people tag me in random people's observations of them

[id: a screenshot of an inaturalist identification thread in which user mrostrowski adds the identification of Rustwort (Nowellia curvofolia) followed by a comment from the same user tagging user rynxs which reads "Your favorite". End id]

I was trying to express that bloodworms are neat because they independently evolved blood with haemoglobin, like vertebrates. What I said was, "Bloodworms are named that because they have human blood".