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textless · 1 year

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Baby horned toads in the yard. Cochise County, Arizona, October 2022.

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one-time-i-dreamt · 1 year

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There was a horned toad fighting a squirrel on my bed. The squirrel lost an arm.

#dream #horned toad #fighting #squirrel #toad #body horror tw #animal harm tw #violence tw

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neanderthalfakemon · 2 years

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#114 - Bufroak

#115 - Suriwyrm

#fakemon #pokemon #dragon type #dragon #toad #horned frog #horned toad #frog #surinam toad #bearded dragon

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evolutionsvoid · 4 months

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A brutish beast that haunts many children stories, a monster that is used to warn the young about the dangers of the wilds and misbehaving. If only the kids knew that the adults were just as fearful of these creatures, as they are very real and just as dangerous as the tales claim. Barbed Ogres (or just Ogres), are hulking monsters that dwell in dark, abandoned places, often lurking in caves, ruins, ghost towns or overgrown forests. They hide within these shelters, either waiting for nightfall or for prey to arrive in search of cover from the elements. There are many horrid tales of fools wandering near unknown caves or tangled brush, only to have long barbed arms lash out and seize them in a shredding grip. Ogres use their elongated forelimbs to snag prey, sinking their long claws in and pulling them back towards a waiting maw.

Those who try to fight back will be met with their spiny hide, tearing flesh and muscle as the horrid beast strikes and swipes with bloodstained spikes. Fleeing from the beast is advised, as their lumbering forms and stubby legs makes walking rather slow. However, when motivated, they may use their longs arms to swing their bodies forward, bounding across the land in awkward leaps. Keeping your distance is not a guarantee of safety, as Ogres have a nasty trick up their sleeves. For prey that refuses to get close, they turn to the empty sockets they use to listen for food. With a tightening of their bodies and clenching of certain muscles, they can fire off a tight spray of searing Blood with remarkable precision and range. This thin beam of Blood burns through flesh and sends a shock through the muscles, often dropping prey to the ground. These few seconds of pain and disorientation is enough time for the Ogre to come bounding over and finish them off. Gluttonous they are, devouring what they can in one sitting, often armor, clothes and all. What scraps remain may be speared onto one of their many spikes and saved for later.

Due to their voracious appetite and territorial nature, Ogres have long been hunted and driven out of more civilized areas. Outer villages may still deal with them from time to time, but most of the danger would come from traveling through the wilds or taking roads that aren't well maintained or guarded. However, with war consuming the land and all able bodies being sent into that ceaseless meat grinder, there have been less and less hunters to ward away the Ogres. As towns fall to ruin and the wilds begin to claim civilization, the Ogres grow in numbers and boldness. The children of the higher end towns may soon find their story time monsters drooling at their doorsteps...

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"Barbed Ogre"

If I got a setting based all around fluid, then one certain blood spraying reptile has to make an appearance!

#ogre #reptile #blood #horned toad #monster #creature #art #drawing #fall of ichor

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weezord-leezords · 1 year

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Via HeckoGecko

#lizard #horned toad #horned lizard #the lil smile omg #comic #Texas

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morbidmist · 2 years

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Cult of the Lamb but the main character is a sweet little horned toad

#COTL #Massive Monsters #Cult of the Lamb #fanoc #fanart #digital art #horned toad #frog

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year

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#WorldFrogDay: Maybe this Surinam Horned Frog (Ceratophrys cornuta) wouldn't look so happy if it could read what naturalist George Shaw wrote about it in its description...

"Horned Frog" from The Naturalist's Miscellany, v.3, pl. 76 (1791-2) by George Shaw (English, 1751-1813). Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Here's what Shaw said: "Should inquiry be made, which is the ugliest animal yet known to exist? The creature here represented might perhaps with justice be proposed as an answer: an animal of such prodigious deformity as even to exceed in this respect the Surinam toad...." ☹️

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oncillaphoenix · 1 year

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a green thumb makes you good with plants, everybody knows that, but it's a little known secret that other green digits also give you power. a green pinky finger makes you good with fungi, the ring finger does insects, the middle finger is bacteria, and the pointer finger does horned toads specifically. (other reptiles are the domain of the big toe.)

#i don't know what to tag this as.#...#magic #gardening #horned toad #??#oncilla speaks

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moronicprincess · 1 year

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Have some drawings/sketches of monster guys inspired by Pokémon :3

These were all done like a few months or so from each other, and they're not presented in order of drawn, so they probably look a bit different

Won't go into much detail for them, and they're probably not the most detailed anyways, but I will still talk about them under the read more :3

So the first guy is meant to be like a pixel cube cat that is shades of grey, like how Red and Blue, as well as other old games, were, though I did give them some other shapes and didn't make them completely cubic, like the eyebrows and the whiskers :3

Second guy, who is probably a bit hard to see, is a fire lizard. I know that Charmander exists, but I tried to make them as different as possible :3 They're based off of greater short-horned lizards, and I imagine they also shoot stuff from their eyes like the animal, though it's not blood

Third guy, or guys, are some landshark dog guys :3 The top one is based off of German shepherds, and the bottom one is meant to be a pit bull, since both are called landsharks I believe :3

Fourth guy is like a stick insect mixed with a grasshopper that's meant to resemble like a branch. Used to have an idea of a Pokémon that's a stick insect that evolves into a branch, and then a tree, so this guy is based on that :3

And the last guy here is a hummingbird that's also a jet, because they're both fast guys :3 Not a lot going on with them, but I do still enjoy this guy and had fun making it look like a hummingbird with jet-like qualities :3

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truetotradition · 1 year

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Back to nature

#river #snake #lizard #camping #backpacking #santa barbara #coffee #horned toad #shelter #mountain lion

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textless · 1 year

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Horned toads were scarce through the summer and early fall, then in October there were tons of babies. Gus’s tiny grand-lizards!

Cochise County, Arizona, October 2022.

#lizard #horned toad #arizona #babies #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #hand #fingers #in the yard #macro #cute #tiny #mini-gus

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captainofthenautilus · 1 year

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another addams family post. this is pugsley's "toad" and this scene has some "toad croaking" foley, which just cracks me up because while one of the common names for this animal is technically "horned toad," that, my friend, is a lizard.

like,,,

#words words words #the addams family #lizards #herpetology #horned toad #to be fair the genus name 'Phrynosoma' literally means 'toad-bodied'#so there is a reason to mix them up #but there is also zero chance that that animal would ever make any noise let alone a croak #don't even get me started on morticia's plants #specifically the poison oak and the hemlock

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angyfishes · 2 years

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BIG MADDED THIS TIME!! I NOW FINDS OUT THAT THERE ARE SECONDE PANCAKED LIZARDE? WHY SO MANY AMIMAL DISGUISE SELFE AS FOODE?? JUST LOOKEDING AT MAKE FISHES HUNGERED!!