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Today's frog is the Tasmanian tree frog.

Pine island Chahoua geckos on a stick

Make babies you idiots

Good Morning Blue Sky

Tan and white Red-tailed Hawk is perched on a branch with other branches around. The background is grey sky. 📷 Dreamcatcher

Red-tailed Hawk

This just might cause a slight case of paranoia...

Take a pic or video of a beautiful creature from your surroundings.
I will start with this beautiful Tropical house gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) naturally found in Africa and was introduced to Jamaica likely by human activities.
Follow @roostersworldja to learn more about nature.

I have ALWAYS adored geckos. They are beautiful and amazing! 😍😍💖

A bright green, smooth skinned toad with a wide yellow band down their side! In the yellow band is a jagged black line that breaks up into spots further down their side!

Our friend the Huila Stubfoot Toad lives in Columbia but has seen a huge decline in the wild. They were once believed to be extinct, but in 2006 a population was found in a remote area! (photo by Mark B. Robbins)

U.S.S. Enterprise and the Botany Bay

Skills from being a birder may change—and benefit—your brain Training to become a birder requires a degree of perception, attention, and memory that reorganizes the structure and activity of distinct brain areas. As experts ag...

OK .... so birding needs to be my new hobby .... www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

'Robo-dog': New weapon in fight to save forests Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a four-legged robot to help protect Europe's forests from overexploitation and extreme weather. "Robo-dog" maps woodlands tree by tree to improve...

Eventually ... a good use of robotics and AI

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Scotland replants for the climate After being deforested centuries ago, southern Scotland is now dry and barren. Now, to preserve nature and protect the climate, volunteers are replanting pastureland to be forests in the future.

About time too!
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The earliest Brimstone butterfly I've ever seen in the UK, in my Sheffield garden this morning. Spring is coming! Looking forward also to the European butterfly spotting holidays I'll be guiding for @mariposanature.bsky.social from May to July! 🦋

This is how turtles flirt. Let me flutter my hands in your face!

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years The native species was driven to extinction by sailors in the 1800s. Now, 158 juvenile giant tortoises have been reintroduced to the island.

Hooray!!!

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Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) on a slim tree trunk facing vertically downwards.

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BirdsInTheirElement, birds in their natural environment. In this case, it's a nuthatch, in classic pose.

#birds #photography

Scaly pangolin amongst leaves

Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!

UK targets all AI chatbots after Grok uproar The British government is seeking to include all AI chatbots in online safety laws. The pushback comes after Elon Musk's Grok was used to create sexualized deepfakes.

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The ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest known bony fish: it reaches up to 2,300 kg of weight and 4.2 meters of size across the fins.

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Good morning Blue Sky.
This Red Lemur feels it

Monday Fun

very closeup photo of two blue poison dart frogs, both sitting on a log. one is sharply in focus and appears to be looking right at the viewer. the other one is behind it, blurred out and facing away

another creature edit before commission work time, blue spotted poison dart frogs at the Como Zoo 🐸

#photography

Green Marsh Frog croaking #marsh #frog #croak #Pelophylax #ridibundus #nature #wildlife #wow HA61943

I found this beautiful big Gold-ringed cat snake on the edge of the suburbs of Singapore. I love finding these stunners.

Black-and-white historical portrait of Constance Tipper, the pioneering English metallurgist and crystallographer. She is gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. Tipper has short, neatly styled dark hair parted on the side with soft waves framing her face. She wears a patterned blouse or dress with a high collar, evoking early-to-mid-20th-century professional women's attire. The soft lighting highlights her determined features against a plain, neutral background, capturing her as a trailblazing scientist whose work on brittle fracture revolutionized materials engineering and saved lives during and after World War II.

Metallurgist Constance Tipper was born #OTD in 1894.

Her groundbreaking work on the brittle fracture of metals saved countless lives during #WWII & laid foundational principles for modern fracture mechanics. First female FT faculty member at Cambridge Dept of Engineering (1949). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

The incredible spiny leaf insect of Australia [📹kaynelawton]

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Gary Larson .... what a legend!!!

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Target tarantula no. 4 for this trip Sri Lankan trip - the Ivory Ornamental (Poecilotheria subfusca).