El Saara hardwickii es un lagarto del desierto de Thar que construye madrigueras espirales o en zig-zag, donde se resguarda de las rapaces. Por su parte, tan solo caza langostas si están disponibles. Normalmente consume flores y frutos de plantas locales.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... and it's FossilFriday!
Here's a 2022 painting of Sacabambaspis, a jawless fish from the Ordovician Period. I can't yet say anything about the project is was created for (big news soon).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A place worth sitting" shows a Dilophosaurus sitting on a beach in the rain (there's a fossil of this happening!).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "In the wake of colossus" shows some Limusaurus trapped in the muddy track left behind by a Mamenchisaurus, which has attracted a predatory Guanlong.
Red diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber), Lakeview Mountains, southern California. Yesterday, right next to the trail. This is why we don't look at our phones while hiking!
#nature #NaturePhotography #reptiles #snakes #rattlesnakes #SouthernCalifornia
The yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) found across western Europe and also in a few countries in Eastern Europe. Known for their bright yellow bellies, heart-shaped pupils, and a unique defense mechanism called the "unken reflex" where they turn on their back to expose their bright belly and potentially release a toxic secretion.Some toads will engage in water-wave-producing behavior. This is where a male will kick its hind legs into a small body of water, generating a wave-like pattern. Attracts female & also enables male toad to make its territory. On the arrival of an intruder into one toad's territory, a fight will take place where each male toad trying to climb on the other's back & the loser eventually swimming away.
Picture: Peregrine
#weird #animals #reptiles #nature
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A stand against the sand" shows a male Citipati protecting a nest from an approaching sandstorm.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Carcass Collector," showing an Archaeotherium with his food cache of body parts.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "A Portrait of Malignance," showing a Telmatosaurus with an ameloblastoma tumour.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.
'Pond life' is sometimes used as an insult applied to particularly contemptible people but I feel that this is unfair to actual pond-dwelling creatures which, by contrast, are mostly harmless and frequently fascinating lifeforms.
Frogspawn is a case in point. You can see that our tiny garden pond is full of the stuff. Zoom in and you can tell that the embryos are starting to elongate towards the shape of a tadpole.
#pond #frogspawn #tadpoles #frogs #pondlife #wildlife #gardening #reptiles
The Darwin crocodile nursery home to hundreds of baby apex predators
By Annabel Bowles
It's known for its mighty five-metre beasts, but this Darwin crocodile park also brings hundreds of baby hatchlings into the world each wet season.
Aquariums: 1st Tour Ever Of My New Aquarium! (Emotional) https://www.flakefood.com/669088/aquariums-1st-tour-ever-of-my-new-aquarium-emotional/ #animals #Aquarium #BrianBarczyk #BrianBarczykAquarium #BrianBarczykLegasea #BrianBarczykZoo #build #education #explore #fish #fun #InteractiveAquarium #InteractiveZoo #InteractiveZooAndAquarium #learning #legasea #LegaseaAquariumAndTheReptarium #michigan #midwest #reptiles #snake #tour #utica #video #videos #vlog #youtube #YoutubeVideos #YoutubeVlog #Zoo #ZoosAndAquariums
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
