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8h

Why did the iguana cross the ocean?

Science News reports: The mystery of how iguanas crossed the Pacific Ocean may be solved.

https://flip.it/MlPa5c

#Iguana #Animals #Science #Reptiles #Evolution

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1d

Collection. #grickledoodle #lizard #skins #reptiles #collecting #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a lizard in his attic looking to hang a shed skin along with his others. Caption reads "He didn't really have a good reason for doing it but he'd been saving his old skins for years."

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1d

We took my oldest teen and several of their friends to the NorCal Reptile Expo today and it was an absolute blast. So many gorgeous reptiles to look at and interact with! My oldest came out more certain that they want to go into some kind of scientific field related to animals 🤩

#reptiles
#EastBay

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8d

#animals #wildlife #reptiles #cool

Just a somewhat confused Chameleon changing from red to pink to green to yellow and blue

https://boingboing.net/2025/03/08/watch-a-chameleon-change-color-multiple-times-in-3-minutes.html?fk_bb

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21d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's some zooms into the packaging art for my Dimorphodon coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MaryAnning #Pterosaurs #Dimorphodon #Dinosaurs

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25d

This is the blue belly lizard I rehabilitated.

His name is Everett.

He got stuck in an empty planter that was rained in and was hypothermic. I felt so bad. He must've been in the cold water for days.

#RescueLizard #reptiles

A blue belly lizard in Moss in an atrium next to water looking at me.

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38d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a monochrome painting of the straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus. It was commissioned for a London festival (2021), because these giants used to roam the land that London now covers. I call this picture Monarch of the Forest. Dr Steven Zhang helped me get the head correct.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Elephant #Mammoth #FossilFriday

A sepia digital painting of a bull straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus. It has wrinkly skin covered in dirt and dust, and is walking in a dark forest.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here are some crops from my grey/sepia painting of the straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus. It was commissioned for a London festival (2021), because these giants used to roam the land that London now covers.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Elephant #Mammoth #FossilFriday

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38d

“You don’t need an expensive overpass; you don’t need a well-designed underpass. You just need to use a different type of curb.”

#rewilding #turtles #reptiles #amphibians #salamanders #roaddesign #urbandesign #wildlife

https://www.rewildingmag.com/how-fixing-roadside-curbs-can-help-reptiles-and-amphibians-survive/

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39d

#straya https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2025/feb/06/man-finds-102-red-bellied-black-snakes-in-a-single-mulch-pile-in-western-sydney-video #reptiles

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43d

To celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay , here is " #Insects and #Reptiles in a Pond" by Itō Jakuchū (Japan, 1716-1800). It's one of 30 hanging silk scrolls from Dōshoku sai-e (Colorful Realm of Living Beings) c. 1757-66, declared a National Treasure of Japan & held by the Museum of the Imperial Collections.
#JapaneseArt

long hanging scroll, color on silk, depicting a pondscape full of aquatic plants and animals including various insects, arachnids, amphibians, and reptiles, with ornamental blue floral border

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45d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 202 I supplied artwork to the BBC for the first series/season of Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV Plus. The most successful piece was this section of Mosasaurus skin (@tetzoo was consultant).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Mosasaurus #PrehistoricPlanet #AppleTVPlus #FossilFriday

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With glassy skin in vivid colours and large alien-like eyes, Malayan Forest #Geckos look striking 🦎😻 These #reptiles long for peace in the understory of #Malaysia's #forests. Help them survive and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🧐⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife

http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/05/malayan-forest-gecko-cyrtodactylus-pulchellus/

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52d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my Iguanodon coin Early Cretaceous landscape packaging art, from the 2020 Dinosauria collection (Tales of the Earth range), from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Iguanodon

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57d

Karoo Sand Snake (Psammophis notostictus), mildly venomous.

#snakesofsa #snakesofza #snakesofsouthafrica #herpingsa #herpingza #reptiles #snakes #wildlifephotography #africa #animalphotography #herps #snaketheworldsmarter #herpingtheglobe
#africawildlife #africanwildlife #southafrica

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57d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I won the opportunity to create a series of Dinosauria coins for The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London. There were three coins – Megalosaurus, Hylaeosaurus, and Iguanodon – here's my reconstruction of the latter.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Iguanodon

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63d

Miami, Florida

#Fotografie #fotografia #foto #photo #photography #reptiles #reptile #lizard
#photographie #fotograaf #usa #potd #travel #travelphotography #wildlife #nature #photooftheday #alttext #miami #wildlifephotography #iguana #florida #camelCase

A Colour Wildlife Photo In Landscape Format. Around And Below The Centre Of The Image Is A Bright, Almost Luminous Light Green Iguana. The Reptile Is Standing Upright On Its Front Two Legs As If Alert To Something. On Its Spine Is A Row Of Multiple Reptilian Small Spines In The Style Of Godzilla. On The Tail Are Some Patches Of Lighter And Duller Green Interrupted With Light Brown Stripes. Behind Is A Second And Much Larger Iguana, Blurred Slightly Out Of Focus. This One With Less Bright Green And More Irregular Brown Patches, Perhaps And Older Iguana ? And Again Looking Alert. They Are Both Standing On Light Beige Coloured Stonework Brightly Lit By The Sun. In The Background Is The Dark Water Of A Nearby River.
The Location Is Brickell Key In Miami, Florida (2012)

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75d

Going to review some of my favorite photos from 2024 as we move into this new year. It's a really nice way to remember some of these cool little moments.

We'll start with my friend the Prairie Lizard sunning on one of the many large logs in the Log Pile. Going to miss these friends

#lizards #reptiles

A lizard rests, sunning on the edge of a large dry log. The lizard has sharp, angular scales, and is mostly gray-brown on the top with metallic blue along its sides and bottom

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75d

Was? Das neue Jahr ist schon da? Chillen wir erst mal voll ab, oder?

What, the new year is already here? Let's chill out first, shall we?

Canon Eos 400d Teleobjektiv
Terrarium Zoo Leipzig

#photography #fotografie #nature #natur #wildlife #zooleipzig #reptiles #reptilien

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76d

TIL about the Wells and Wellington Affair. Bringing this up at a gathering of taxonomists just might lead to fisticuffs. #taxonomy #nature #reptiles #amphibians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_and_Wellington_affair

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87d

The Los Angeles Zoo hatches its first-ever perentie lizards, one of the largest lizard species in the world.

From @AssociatedPress: "Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are native to Australia and one of the world’s largest lizards, dwarfed only by the Komodo dragon and a few others."

https://flip.it/8wdCdn

#Lizard #Reptiles #Animals #Zoo #Science

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90d

Herpetologists: I just came across this late critter - not sure if it's a bubby brown #snake or a legless #lizard. Any views?

#reptiles

Flattened sandy-coloured body of a small legless reptile on a dirt road.

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90d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, written by Prof Mike Benton. Here's my painting of Anurognathus.

This book would make a great Christmas gift!
https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/dinosaurs-new-visions-of-a-lost-world-hardcover

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Pterosaurs #Anurognathus

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118d

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Three of the ZBrush sculpts I created for my 2019 "Cambrian Epic" painting, featuring a variety of wonderful creatures from the Sirius Passet lagerstätte, Greenland. This was commissioned for Park et al 2024.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Cambrian