Leafyfern - Flora And Fauna

Be a friend to snakes

If you’re interested in getting one of these as a sticker, patch, or pin, reblog to let me know!! I can also draw your snake in; message me for details :)

gynandromorphism in spiders

a gynandromorph is an organism that exhibits male and female characteristics. bilateral asymmetry can occur wherein one “side” of the animal is female and the other is male, mosaicism can occur wherein the characteristics are distributed in patches. in spiders, this phenomenon can present itself through presence of both testes and overies and split colouration. cases can also occur where, although parts of the spider are clearly male or female, the divisions can be less definite; certain reproductive organs like the palps and epigyne may be very poorly developed or completely absent. these individuals are referred to as intersexes. gynandry and intersexuality can occur in the same individual.

pictured: lampropelma nigerrimum, pamphobeteus sp. mascara, poecilotheria ornata, thyene imperialis.

                                Foglie Tropicale (Series II)- Various Plants

1.  Ornamental Foliage Plants, Mary Evans

2. Codiaeum hybrid, drawn and chromolithographed by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden’s l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888

3. Coleus Blumei, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

4. Garden Croton, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

5. Cyrtosperma,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

6. Pitcher Plant,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

7. Trichocentrum cosymbephorum

8. Majesty Palms

9. Aspidium obliquatum

One of these things is not like the others!

This handsome skull belongs to an iguana.

These all belong to water monitors.

And this one belongs to a tegu.

The tegu’s skull is missing a hole!

Those little openings on the top of the monitors’ heads and the iguana’s is where the pineal eye is located. The pineal eye can distinguish between light and dark, and helps with thermoregulation. But tegus don’t have it! They lost their pineal eye sometime during the course of their evolution- which is evidence of how even though they might look a bit like monitors, they really aren’t that closely related!

A rare case in which an octopus’s tentacles mutated and branched off beyond the normalcy… 

Waaaaaaa…….nooooo

yo sometimes i forget leafy sea dragons exist and just

i share a planet with these funky little men?? i feel HONORED

moodboards i did earlier 2day :)

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ok 2 use w/ credit

Hyperfocussing on fish is great until you spend all your money on fish and also nobody wants to hear you talk about it anymore