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That leaves two more, and I'm torn between:

Green iguana: Our other Junior Herpers leader always brings an iguana her to events, and kids love them. They're highly recognizable, too.

Corn snake: Extremely popular pet around here, another child/crowd favorite.

Hellbender: Not native to Chicago, but a popular conservation project, native to IL, and charismatic AF (if you like snot-covered muppets, WHICH I DO).

Cricket frog: I have 2 inch sticker blanks, so I could do this life-sized like I'm doing with the baby massasauga. The nature museum we have junior meetings at does a survey of these every year, so they're really relevant.

Bearded dragon: Everybody loves these.

Axolotl: Everybody loves these and for some reason they are EXTREMELY popular with little girls right now. Herps are for everybody but I always want to encourage a little girl's love of slimy things, y'know?

Alligator: Chance the Snapper is still relevant around here.

Fox snake: Unlike corns, actually local. People have become very, very interested in our native ratsnakes recently (I have actually been asked how to attract them!) and fox snakes are pretty- and a lot of our membership lives in the Fox River valley so there's that.

Western hognose: Native to IL, threatened in IL, and they're very cute and dramatic.

Sulcata tortoise: Somebody always brings a sulcata to our meetings. I think I'd do this one with some shading and cracks like it's crashing through the sticker.

After a wonderful visit to the aquarium, Nova was even more excited about the dinosaur themed burger restaurant we visited for lunch!

She didn't eat her own burger until we got home, though.

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Nova the velociraptor and my nameless Jellycat seal came to the aquarium at Loch Lomond in October 2025!

I love bringing Nova to places like this, she always has such a perfect expression of excitement and wonder (or sometimes a cheeky BITE! No eating the sharks, Nova!)

My seal got soaked by the rain travelling on the outside of my backpack lol oops, but he had a nice time as well, 'swimming' and hanging out with a ray friend!

Orion, Muffin and Bath Bomb got to see an excellent rainbow this evening!

I bought this secondhand Wild Republic velociraptor puppet to send to @toyboxdotcom, and the seller posted it to me using a box of Asda wheat bisks for protection (how much protection does a soft puppet really need? Well, better too much than too little I guess.)

So I fed the velociraptor its breakfast.

Finished! Oh, it's a bit fierce!

And hungry. Hey, that belongs to the Tasmanian devil!

Made some sinosauropteryx plushies again, this time with pastel colours! Plus some of the wee rainbow babies I've made before.

Both available in my shop!

Silky Anteater a.k.a. Pygmy Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus), family Cyclopedidae, Costa Rica