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#chicago has a great music scene #and historically has had a great music scene #give me the wax trax catalog and styx and cheap trick (rockford might as well be here) and goodl ol' midwest emo and i'd be a happy camper

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Breaking news: giant reptilian monsters spotted climbing all over Chicago landmarks!

This month's CHS Junior Herpers (a reptile club for kids that I run) was all about movie monsters. We talked about reptiles in the film industry and then I showed the kids how to use miniature sets and low angle photography to make their little friends look like giants. The ball python had a little trouble, but his owner was super pleased. CC the crested gecko was easily our best actor- he loved our bridge sets. The kids had a blast casting their creatures in a hypothetical movie.

#reptile #lizard #gecko #crested gecko #ball python #reptiblr #gargoyle gecko #adzuki

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New Caledonian Geckos 🍌🥭🦎

#art #reptiblr

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spock you did shrooms like at least once

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i think the world would be a lot more interesting and worth living in if it spontaneously generated a gigantic monster every now and then. i mean really gigantic, like multiple stories tall. skyscraper sized

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I’m a teacher assistant for spanish grammar and the professor was explaining epícenos (single gendered words that encompass masculine and feminine beings) and he was using iguana as an example and he said: “there is only one gender… iguana” and i had to mute my microphone

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This picture is making the rounds on meme pages so I thought that I would provide some more context for those bored enough to seek it out:

No, this isn't from Michigan, and I have no idea if Juggalos put up the sign or not.

This is a Subway outside of Shakamak State Park in Indiana. The actual name of the town is Jasonville. It bills itself as the Gateway to Shakamak because there is not much else going on in Jasonville. The most notable event was a big fire in 1914.

Shakamak State Park is very beautiful and you should visit it. It did show up in an episode of the American Gods tv series- or rather, the sign did, because the actual scene was filmed at Gloss Mountain in Fairview, Oklahoma.

I don't know if they have soup there. I'm sure they do. But do they woop woop? Truly unknown.

WOOP WOOP GET SOME SOUP

#woop woop get some soup

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Yesterday, I went to Baltimore with the intention of visiting a friend in hospice. Her health had taken a sharp nosedive over the weekend, and on Monday evening, the doctors said she maybe had a week left.

What actually happened was I went to Baltimore to help clean out her stuff, because she died at 8:44 on Tuesday morning and my plane didn't land until 8:50. So me and another friend helped another friend/her roommate (before hospice) find important documents, as well as save sentimental items for her actual loved ones because her family, well.

Her friends were her family. But because she died intestate, the people in her family of choice were entitled to nothing under the law. Instead of her beloved, disabled partner, her estranged family has legal rights to her savings bonds and the rest of her estate. (Sometimes common-law partners can inherit but they weren't together long enough to meet that criterion.)

I knew this was coming for a long time. You don't recover from the brain cancer she had. But it still really hurts. And knowing that people she hadn't spoken to in years are getting that money instead of the person she loved most... well, that hurts too.

Please, if you don't have one already, make a will. It's not hard. We don't like to think about it, because nobody likes thinking about post-death legal matters, but you need to make a will. If you're in the US, you can use websites like Free Will. You don't need an estate attorney or anything like that. In many states, a notarized letter is fine. I don't know enough about international estate law to say anything in that regard, but take half an hour to google estate laws in your jurisdiction and put together a will.

If something happened to you tomorrow, who do you want taking care of your pets? Do you have a collection of anything that you want looked after? Do you want your money to go to a person, a charity, or something else specific? If you don't have kids, everything reverts to a spouse. If you don't have a spouse, it goes to your parents. I know I don't want to burden my parents with figuring out what to do with my tegu, my skeletal collection, or my library. But if I died tomorrow, my will would take care of all of that. Thinking about mortality isn't fun, but dying intestate is worse. Make a will.

#death cw #her name was Constance but we all called her Corn #I met her in 2006 on an art adoptable sub forum of an anime forum and we'd been friends ever since #can you even begin to imagine how many of my most important relationships came from of all places gaia online and tungl.hell #it's so many

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Spectacled caiman By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

#spectacled caiman #crocodilian #reptile #reptiblr

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This is dice snake (Natrix tesselata) probably the dumbest looking snake in Europe. It feeds primarily on fish, it’s a great swimmer, it produces very stinky musk in self defense, it sometimes plays dead and it never bites. The photo was taken by my herpetology teacher and I need the entire internet to see it.

@snake-spotted

#snake #reptile #mods asleep post front dice snake

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Extremely vital (and sleepy) office supplies

#reptile #lizard #tegu #reptiblr #Nakajima

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In comparison, the beluga whale tops out at 5.5 meters (18 ft) long. The fish gets longer... and nearly as heavy.

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Polypteridae. This order is made up of reedfish and bichirs, freshwater fish that have lungs, with some species capable of breathing air.

Acipenseriformes. This order is made up of basal fishes with skeletons made mostly of cartilage. It includes sturgeons and paddlefish.

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She likes to curl up in my lap and then peek out by propping her face on my knee.

#reptile #lizard #tegu #reptiblr #Nakajima

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Without reservoir populations in zoos, this little guy would be facing imminent extinction. Imagine losing 90% of your population in less than two months. Even if you survived, what does that mean for your species? Your ability to make viable offspring?

With the zoo-led breeding efforts, that precious genetic diversity can be preserved as best as possible. It's not ideal, these turtles went though a massive bottleneck and we will see the founder effect (to an extent- reptiles have far fewer deleterious results of inbreeding than mammals do). But without zoo conservation, they'd be gone. Now they have a chance.

Zoos do a lot of programs like this for important species that don't have the flash and panache of something like a tiger or an elephant. But these smaller, shyer species play important roles in their ecosystems. They deserve preservation, too! And often, they're much less complicated to raise and release. Zoos have helped save lots of chelonians, from the stunning Burmese roofed tortoise to my hometown hero, the Blanding's turtle. So the next time you wonder what zoos do for conservation, don't forget these highly effective herpetological projects!

Conservationists release largest group of zoo-bred Bellinger River snapping turtles after virus wipe-out

Nearly a decade after a virus nearly wiped out a population of turtles unique to northern New South Wales, researchers say its origins remain a mystery as a project to repopulate the species hits a major milestone. Now identified as the Bellinger River Virus, it triggered a mass mortality event in 2015 that decimated 90 per cent of the river's snapping turtle population within six weeks. At the time, the state government placed 16 healthy turtles into a zoo-based breeding program led by Taronga Zoo as part of the NSW government's Saving our Species program. Some 179 Bellinger River snapping turtles have since been released after the program started in 2018, with 97 turtles reintroduced into the river during December marking the largest group yet...

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-09/bellinger-river-snapping-turtle-conservation-release-zoo-bred/103681974

#turtle #conservation #zoos

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BREAKING NEWS this dog loves EGGS and WORM

#reptile #lizard #tegu #reptiblr #Nakajima

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Yeah! Same author, she does a ton of books like these. There's mixed creature sets, there's one that's just bugs- it's a whole genre.

Please look at this adorable book I definitely bought for my niece who just turned one and not for me, her aunt, who is... much older.

It has some truly beautiful illustrations and fun animal facts about a bunch of creatures you don't normally see in children's books. There's so many good reptile books for kids now- I would have loved this as a kid. I really appreciate it now as a grownup!

I can't wait to read it to her- for now she'll be more interested in the flaps, but as she gets older I think she'll have fun with this book that contains animal facts and the ability to play god with a bunch of Creatures.

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Jima is developing Questionable Paleoart opinions.

#reptile #lizard #tegu #reptiblr #Nakajima