Black Mamba
Dendroaspis polylepis
Source: Here
Alex Ebel, for a 1974 edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’
The lizard people are watching us
friend of the day!
you’ve met handsome roundboy, now we introducing….
His Royal Flatness, mexican burrowing toad!
SO FLAT! i am swooning
a face of a king
perfect is he body
i trust him
I love him
beautiful smile of toad
he know you love him too!
in he come for a kiss!
thank you goodbye!!
toads are obligate carnivores, this is the face of an animal that has evolved to survive by consuming other living things. i love nature.
#to be fair Rhinophrynus dorsalis is a highly distinctive species that took a massive evolutionary divergence #it’s been said that a killer whale has more in common with a kangaroo than the Mexican burrowing toad has with any other living amphibian
Wow!
Anonymous asked: Can you do a tutorial/ref to the different type of snake heads? I've noticed that Python heads seem to have one shape, but other species will have other shapes, and I was wondering if you could do a handy guide to the different sort of snake faces.
friend, pythons are a beautiful and diverse family…here, let’s meet some:
but there are many, many snakes out there, and all of them have unique shapes
the short-tail face should be called “side of beef” hahaha!!!
Addenda:
Wallace’s flying frog study - the wiki article on these guys starts by saying how photogenic they are… If I had a wiki article I’d be happy if it said the same thing 💅💅💅
The amphibians of Madagascar are incredibly diverse.
Commission for Alice of a cypress swamp and siren!
A bearded dragon study in colour! 🦎🦎🦎🦎 It’s been a very busy week so I haven’t been able to post much at all!
Tatler, London, England, October 4, 1905