10. A young red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus), 3 October. Look at it trying to be tough with its flattened neck all threatening lol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bel... Not such a good photo, but it reminded me that I’m overcoming my fear of snakes — although this one is just a baby.

With over 30 inches of rain in some areas of the Central Coast since November 1st, this wet weather season is already one to remember for years

🐍Dog-toothed cat snake (Boiga cynodon) Max. size 280 cm (9'2"). Females grow larger than males Found in southern Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik

Images: tiny baby black sharks with alternating cream dots & bands down their bodies, only about as long as a churro.

Check it out, my Tiger Jaw bloomed!

I was so focused on recording Truffe and Mousse eating that I dropped my phone lol

taking the yearly group photo with the girls went as well as one might expect :^) thank you all for another year, may the next one be merry and swarming with rats as always!

Yuzu baths are a Japanese New Year's tradition for health and warding off evil. Video: capybaras munching lettuce while chin-deep in water with yuzu fruit, Chinese bellflower, and pine boughs floating in it. [via Gifu Prefecture freshwater aquarium]

You will too! Let's go 2026!!!!!

3…2…1… Happy 𝘡𝘰𝘰 Year! 🎉🪩🥳 There’s a lot to see at the Zoo, but as 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite animal photos this year! What animals are you looking forward to seeing more of in 2026?

Sorry, that was an answer to someone else, oops! I saw a conifer mazegill earlier this week, a coincidence.

Image: fallen deadwood completely engulfed in moss and some kind of turkey-tail fungus, rich layers of uneven purple-gray-brown shelves.

New year, new cagemates #petrats #skyrats Alt: a silver and white and a cream colored young rats playfully exploring near the open cage door. An older orange and white rat can be seen, probably exhausted

T'Challa gets a fresh fennel every Friday--here's today's offering. Also the first time in ages I've seen him upright; they have problems when they need to check his back for anything, because if a human approaches he flops in his favorite pose: belly-up. [via For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue]

Image: two-panel comic. 1. Punk/alternative person staring down at a small animal cage, sighing, "I hope they think I'm a good owner." 2. Text box labeled "The Happiest Small Beast" points at a toast-colored rat, visibly overflowing with happiness and boggling.

Just chilling in the top cage. Watching me paint minis

I was talking with my wife about @wyattehall.bsky.social's recent paper. She's a biologist who previously worked at @ncse.bsky.social, and she pegged it immediately: oralism is like creationism, always swapping out the justifications without changing the underlying beliefs.

#rats #petRats #skyRats

Random church in Beverley today in amazing lighting with the perfect sky background

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is birds #GoodLight so here is an Equatorial Antpitta in lovely soft light. These birds are found in the central Andes Mountains of Colombia throughout Ecuador into northern Peru. Zuroloma Birding, Parroquia Nono, Ecuador

lets keep hoping for better ones

> Keepers hiding small pieces of food, like shrimp and squid, for the bamboo and epaulette sharks. We hide the food inside puzzle boxes of various shapes and sizes. The animals use their snouts to push and nudge the feeders to get at the food. [WCS photographer, Terria Clay | New York Aquarium]

Expect more Squeakross in 2026 🐁

most of my attention was on getting through the crowd while pretending to be an ordinary augmented human, and not a terrifying murderbot. This involved not panicking when anybody accidentally made eye contact with me.

Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity! 🍄

the miss made a dhansak and it was lovely. i made the pilau rice which was also lovely. the bhaji came from tesco because fuck that noise.

yuzu, demander of attention and papaya puppyface

Lately I’ve been in my fungi appreciation era since it’s winter/fungi season in Northern California 🍄❤️

Our friend the Herveo Plump Toad lives in cool, moist places high in the Andean mountains of Colombia! They are a small toad, growing to just over an inch long! (photo by Carlos A. Londoño Guarnizo)

I NEED Louisiana photo sky to GET ON THIS

IT’S JAN. 2!!! One of my favorite days. The holidays are over. Back to predictable hours, fewer crowds everywhere, less emails asking me to donate money before the end of the year. Once again we have won the battle with Christmas and can return to our real lives for a few peaceful months.

I guess AI isn't going to replace knitting anytime soon

ahahaha fuck step therapy* *when your insurance requires you to fail out of a different, cheaper medication, one that may have worse side effects and a different impact than what you need, before they'll cover the one your doctor actually prescribed

Well, drat. You're just a no-good, milk-livered fool yourself, just like that Nord. Get out of my sight, maggot.

He doesn't know how much he looks like a hamburger when he flips the bed like this #ratsofbluesky

Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social is powerful, unsettling, and beautiful is more ways than I can count. Y'all should check it out. The worst part, however, was seeing THESE PAGES while reading and knowing it was getting CLOSER

Scotty coming up a gully in the shale barrens west of Pueblo today 🌿

I still have some ends to sew in, and it'll need some sort of edging, but otherwise my 2025 temperature blanket is complete! I used the Snowflake Temperature Blanket pattern by Kaye Adolphson and Yarnsmiths Create DK. It's about 55" wide and 78" long. 🧶 #Crochet #TemperatureBlanket

If you're not into Kindle reading, but either order books from Amazon or (like me) have Amazon print books, you may have accumulated Kindle Points. If you've got more than 299 points, you can order a $2.99 Kindle book for free -and money goes from Amazon's pockets to the author/publisher-.

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

#RodentOfTheDay Grassland Melomys (Melomys burtoni) "This melomys, which is nocturnal, is found in a variety of habitats ranging from grasslands to swamps and even mangrove communities." Ph/Info: www.jcu.edu.au/discover-nat...

Tropical lily spotted on a morning walk in Playas del Coco 🌺🌱

back when i first signed up for twitter i made a side account that was just interiors i saved from norwegian cottage real estate listings and i wish i had kept up with it because i'm sure these will eventually end up lost to time and the grayzone remodel plague

That feeling when you're looking for #otters & you spot a long, dark sinewy mammal slinking along the stream, but it turns out to be a mink. These are invasive species in Britain. When I first saw this one it had a small mammal in its mouth. Cute though. #BreconBeacons #WildWales #MammalWatching

I have no more to say about that barbarian.

The wizard takes a sip from his boysenberry tea and leaves a note in the margins of his grimoire.

jiminy's animal reviews: Found along Australia’s southern coast is the leafy seadragon (𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴), a relative of the seahorse. They gently swim through the water with tiny fins so as to appear like seaweed. This protects them from most predators except for underwater stoners. 🧵

Video: lioness detours from her stroll to visit a lounging male. She boops her nose to his cheek, then smacks his face with a paw. She stretches and departs, the male getting up to follow. [via Perth Zoo]

Candelariella rosulans* west of Pueblo today 🌿 *I think

They gentrified the tinfoil hat