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Images from the herpetology section of the university of Michigan zoological collections museum.

I have mixed feelings about voucher specimens, I didn't love being around all of these dead things, but this was really cool.

The University of Michigan, supposedly, has the largest voucher collection of caecilians institution in the United States (and possibly the world?).

They have a CT scanner and 3-D printer on site, and produced this model of a caecilian skull right there.

This facility is not open to the general public, but there was a tour for the SSAR herpetology conference. 

* some highlights for me were this Sicilian collection, a thorny devil, the skull model, and the huge paradoxical frog tadpole (which is bigger than the adult frog).

Turning the Frickin' Frogs Gay

Herpetology and queer internet culture

Given by Kannon Pearson at SSAR 2024, Ann Arbor, Michigan

This was a wonderful, fun, humorous talk given by Kannon Pearson (from UC Berkeley) about the intersections of herpetology, queer online culture, and popular media at the 2024 SSAR Herpetology Conference at the University of Michigan, June 28th.

Design of Chara in SS: Action Rising!

Also if u are one of the people who read and supported my DSMP fics, let it b known i love u and i am giving u a little kiss.

Im almost certainly Never going to finish sea salt and roses Or tommys guide, but for posterity, heres what i wld rename the SSAR characters if i adapted it into a non fanfiction story :3

mad all the time // mad at nothing