#reptiles — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

👉 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/the-surprising-sounds-made-by-reptiles

#crocodile #gecko #sounds #animals #science #nature #wildlife #biology #zoology #birds #mammals #discovery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

Blues #Anole - digging some B.B. King while #Thanksgiving2022    meal is on the smoker.
#BackyardWildlife #lizard #herpetology #reptiles