#reptiles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reptiles, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐊💥 Researchers have found vocal #communication across all four surviving reptile lineages, challenging the old idea that #reptiles are mostly silent.
For example, male #gharials make #underwater popping #sounds that seem to signal identity, #turtle hatchlings chirp from inside #eggs to coordinate hatching, and some #lizards use distress calls that change with urgency.
#crocodile #gecko #sounds #animals #science #nature #wildlife #biology #zoology #birds #mammals #discovery
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Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/950ef21e-c772-428b-832d-13297c0ca048
#reptiles #snakes #artnouveau #beasts #modernism #ornament #lithography #art #publicdomain
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Plate 79, Lacertilia (1904) by Ernst Haeckel, from Kunstformen der Natur.
Source: Library of Congress
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5cf94882-4466-4843-8647-4cadf3461eed
#reptiles #nature #iguanas #lizards #wildlife #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d2f9d8e4-ece7-46ba-8b46-d6c57d8e1cd6
#reptiles #art-nouveau #beasts #modernism #lizards #frogs #ornament #art #publicdomain
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #115: It rains iguanas in Florida sometimes.
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#iguanas #reptiles #florida #weather #strangeweather #bizarre #wtf #butwhytho #strangebuttrue #webtoons #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
An adult Brontosaurus rearing up to reach high vegetation, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Brontosaurus #Apatosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2023 illustration of the growth rate of Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorpoQzM-Ovm9VJ-kQ3jSl60ruPWRNrwcegG3fmvTOFQonrHkldS
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Apatosaurus #Brontosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2023 illustration of a sneezing Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorFZpIRsz4gt3snIe2kgKx-ZrYvETlHpS596wX98R4eVCisy-y9
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Apatosaurus #WildlifeArt #Brontosaurus
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's the diplodocid sauropod growth rate mural art I created for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, in 2021.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Diplodocus #Brontosaurus #Apatosaurus #Barosaurus #Sauropod #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark
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[Repost] Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #115: It rains iguanas in Florida sometimes.
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#iguanas #reptiles #florida #weather #strangeweather #bizarre #wtf #butwhytho #strangebuttrue #webtoons #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A conference sketch from 2015. This was a response to a conversation with Darren Naish, Mathew Wedel and @mike about the idea that apatosaurs might have had weapons or armour on their ventrolateral processes.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Brontosaurus #JurassicWorld
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Blues #Anole - digging some B.B. King while #Thanksgiving2022 meal is on the smoker.
#BackyardWildlife #lizard #herpetology #reptiles