BIRGUS LATRO! I love these big ass hermit crabs! Via Christmas Island Western Australia, 4kg in weight and up to 1 m across! #crustmas via @rachku www.instagram.com/p/DSR2Irlifg...

Wildlife love this spot, they always root around so we can't grow plants here as they'll dig them up. Mice are a key food source for gray foxes & a potential meal for raccoons. House mice live outdoors in burrows/dense cover, though ground nests are less common for them than other mice. #mammals

It's day 14 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have some planthoppers 😘

pink california glowworm, extremely beautiful and powerful species

are they, you know,

railroad worms on a date

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

It's day 13 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have a teeny tiny little monarch caterpillar 😘

Furries, if yall are TRULY for the welfare of animals, it's time to do your thing. Even as a niche subculture--If all of us do our part and speak out/reach out to local representatives, there is a higher potential to make a difference in this grim environmental and political climate.

They have few predators. The spines contain detergent-like 'saponins' that can result in pain & uncontrolled bleeding. This Pacific triton, a giant sea snail, is one of the few animals able to make a snack out of the C-O-T starfish, bypassing the thorns with a mucus coating. Nature is metal.

Foxy flowers #art ✧ #fox ✧ #flowers ✧ #painting

It's day 12 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have a butterfly 😘

oh WOW! SPONGE plus SCALLOP combo! from New Caledonia #molluscmonday #spongethursday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

extremely realistic basilosaurus reconstruction

I've been writing a lecture which is going to feature a wide range of different invertebrate taxa. At some point, I realised that instead of trying to source photos/images for all those taxa, it'd be easier (+ more stylistically consistent) for me to just draw them all myself. #Invertebrate #SciArt

omg. Barbie dream nettle.

reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you

Here is your Wednesday Weevil, waving. It's a broad-nosed weevil, (unsure of the species), that I spotted on a dirt road in the mountains of Colombia in '23. I initially moved to pick it up because I thought it was a small piece of trash, like a bit of shiny candy wrapper. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

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I just discovered this AMAZING fire worm, Notopygos! so I'm sharing it with you guys for #wormwednesday This one from Kwajalein Atoll! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

An adult female Northern Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis) from Starr County, Texas, USA.

A mid-snack temporary cold-induced stupor allowed me time to capture these water droplets resting on the springtails hydrophobic (water proof) skin. Immature Hemitrichia / Trichia species pictured with Collembola - Neanura muscorum feeding/sleeping. #myxomycetes #collembola #macronature

Fossil #Crustmas art - the oldest freshwater branchiopod, 410 million years ago

american mattress makers could really learn something from a visit to china. I'm gonna miss the beds here so much.

I just have to say this is one handsome Great Blue Heron... at the osprey nest, Boulder County fairgrounds. Looks like he's patiently and calmly waiting for the pond to thaw... @everyheron.bsky.social #birds

Furnando, the grey fox, sniffing around on the Raccoonobahn. He was the only commuter on the 'Bahn last night. #mammals

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

One of the best prepared #trilobites I own, just look at the eye detail! This is a stunning example of a Hollardops mesocristatare from the Devonian. #fossilfriday #palaeontology #ancient #fossils

This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time. The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.

This is how he leaves

Another cool find at Emerald Arch in Ecuador was this membracid treehopper (Anchistrotus sp.) with its enormous helmet. While much more sluggish compared to other treehoppers, this species is quick to break off and drop its helmet when disturbed, allowing it to take off swiftly to escape danger.

An adorable Platyhelminthes! I see that the classification has changed, so this is now subphylum Rhabditophora? Anyhoo, a real cutie! #marineplankton 🦑

Two sandhill cranes, seen on an expedition with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

if you live with other people you shouldn't raise the thermostat without discussion for the following reasons: -rooms often heat unevenly and what feels comfortable to you may make another room unbearable -heating is expensive and you can't jack up everyone's bill without asking

Shrimpies what live on FIRE URCHINS! Urchin is Asthenosoma varium.. spines are basically hypodermic needles! don't touch! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

OH. NICE. A CLOSE CLOSE UP of the SPINES on a sand dollar, Dendraster excentricus.A reminder that they are not "related to" sea urchins, they ARE SEA URCHINS! #echinoday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Sunday Surfing in the photo archives - here's a giant shield bug (family Tessaratomidae) from Malaysian Borneo awhile back. These are larger than the typical stink bugs we see here in the U.S. They can spray a defensive chemical that not only smells unpleasant, but can damage skin. 🐙🌿 #Bugsky

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Sandhill cranes yesterday. I always stop when I see them. 🪶

Ok hell yeah. Some kid (presumably) put their whole ass into this public education campaign. I’ve seen multiple stapled on poles near my house. I love the energy.

BIG news about vampire squid! I just learned their Japanese name "koumori-dako" means "bat-octopus," which is objectively better* and I'll be using it from now on. 🦇🐙 That's not the news though, the news is that scientists sequenced their genome and it's ENORMOUS 🧪🧵 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

My fav bird, there's just something quite magnificent about Flickers. Female red-shafted Northern flicker with take off in slow motion to see the red areas of her wings/tail feathers better. #birds

today in pumpkintown we have two spot franklin, the vicious man-eating lion, benny "the speed" davison, and snurt

Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭

#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Small: this is an isopod, a small land dwelling crustacean in the genus Armadillidium. Acrylic painting on wood panel. #art #painting #bugs #traditionalart #colorful