Wildlife Major

Just a small handmade thing! 🐛 Black swallowtail caterpillar - before & after ✿

(decapods are the marine crustacean group with ten legs- true crabs, lobsters, hermit crabs, robber crabs, mantis shrimp, prawns, slipper lobsters, and all of their infinite assorted relatives in the deep blue sea)

one more word from you and no dessert tonight

flat little sea slugs

An illustrated tribute to the flora and fauna of Joanna Newsom’s song lyrics, commissioned by fellow superfan Ellie

(blue death feigning beetles)

we noticed the position its actual limbs were in and spent a few minutes aggressively squatting at each other with our arms out

holy shit it sure is

Child's drawing looking ass

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

There is something about a giant aquatic crocodile-snouted dinosaur with a sail down its back wearing the trans pride flag that just feels right. The real Spinosaurus (~99 million years ago, North Africa) is the only non-avian dinosaur we know that swam for a living. @webvein drew this one. It’s on apparel at 252MYA.COM/STRANS.

Backyard Sounds from 2022

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

Source: bat researcher Laura Torrent on Instagram

This is something you may see on hot days - this Blue Jay is not injured, it is taking a sunbath. It is done for skin care and grooming and helps with parasites. I always love seeing it because it feels like they have to feel perfectly safe when they do it.

I recently saw this with a Stellar's Jay (the same bird pictured here) and it initially had me worried it was sick or injured! Very relieving to learn about this interesting behavior.

Me and mom learned new English word.