#salamanders — Public Fediverse posts

You’d think with all the wildlife I have at my house, Red Efts would be a common occurrence. They aren’t. I have yet to see one (and let’s face it, they aren’t hard to see 😅) here at the house or in the neighboring forests for miles.

I was several towns away when I finally came across this one. (You can tell it was happy for the photo op as it just sat there as they’re prone to do.)

#salamanders #amphibians

Holsum Sally boys

https://piefed.social/c/grimdank/p/2048872/holsum-sally-boys

🥾 We hiked past a water impoundment that is usually disruptive to a mountaintop environment, but this one was full of salamanders!

🦎 These amphibians prefer cold, clean, running water as in pristine streams. This pond had to be relatively undisturbed.

📷 I stayed still and got a pic of a Spotted Salamander as it floated into a sunny spot. Love the orange spots!

#BreaksSP 🧵
#Travel #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #TravelPhotography #Biodiversity #Environment #Salamander #Salamanders #Amphibians

🥾 We hiked past a water impoundment that is usually disruptive to a mountaintop environment, but this one was full of salamanders!

🦎 These amphibians prefer cold, clean, running water as in pristine streams. This pond had to be relatively undisturbed.

📷 I stayed still and got a pic of a Spotted Salamander as it floated into a sunny spot. Love the orange spots!

#BreaksSP 🧵
#Travel #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #TravelPhotography #Biodiversity #Environment #Salamander #Salamanders #Amphibians

🥾 We hiked past a water impoundment that is usually disruptive to a mountaintop environment, but this one was full of salamanders!

🦎 These amphibians prefer cold, clean, running water as in pristine streams. This pond had to be relatively undisturbed.

📷 I stayed still and got a pic of a Spotted Salamander as it floated into a sunny spot. Love the orange spots!

#BreaksSP 🧵
#Travel #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #TravelPhotography #Biodiversity #Environment #Salamander #Salamanders #Amphibians

🥾 We hiked past a water impoundment that is usually disruptive to a mountaintop environment, but this one was full of salamanders!

🦎 These amphibians prefer cold, clean, running water as in pristine streams. This pond had to be relatively undisturbed.

📷 I stayed still and got a pic of a Spotted Salamander as it floated into a sunny spot. Love the orange spots!

#BreaksSP 🧵
#Travel #WildlifeWednesday #Wildlife #TravelPhotography #Biodiversity #Environment #Salamander #Salamanders #Amphibians

Last night we saw:
-1 northern spring salamander
-3 four-toed salamanders
-a couple bull frogs
-a few green frogs
-dozens of spotted salamanders
-lots of wood frogs
-so many spring peepers (one shown in image)

I also didn't realize (or forgot) spring salamanders can stay in a larval stage with external gills for 4 years, so that was a confusing find.

#amphibiancallout #spring #vernalpools #Adirondacks #salamanders #frogs

The final 2 terminators for the squad are Salamanders. The first based on my conversions for pre heresy terminator armour before there was an official kit or even HH 1.0 😂 The second is an up armoured lad that will gain flames as their details #warhammer40k #salamanders #badabwar #kitbash

Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)

#Newt #Amphibian #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #Amphibians #Newts #Salamander #Salamanders #MarshMadness #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

I started a little series of drawings of Primarchs in the traditional clothing of their adopted homeworlds.

First two were Vulkan and Lorgar. I was asked to do Curze and Lion, too. But also kind of want to do Fulgrim with some Ruhrgebiets-chic.

#Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #MyArt #Primarch #HorusHeresy #Vulkan #Lorgar #Salamanders #WordBearers #FanArt

I started working on Vulkan and his base.
The Primarch of the Eighteenth isn't glued to the base, yet. I will paint him (and his drakescale cloak, not pictured) separately.

But that's how the landscape will look.

I am unsure about how I will balance green and gold in his armour. Maybe inspiration will strike today, so I can start the metal parts tomorrow. 😊

#warhammer #MiniaturePainting #WorkInProgress #HorusHeresy #Salamanders #WarhammerCommunity #PaintingMiniatures #Primarch

Albino Bell’s false brook salamander (Isthmura bellii)

This false brook salamander is lacking its iconic dark black colour and fiery orange spots. This curiously pale albino salamander was found a few years ago by a local teacher on the pavement in Pinal de Amoles, in the WLT-funded Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, #Mexico.

It's the first known record of #albinism in tropical #salamanders.

Photograph: Roberto Pedraza Ruiz/Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda (GESG)

@photography
#photography

Excellent signage at the towel hut at Lake Mohonk. There's a healthy population of eastern newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) at the beachfront and kids love to capture them in their buckets. #NewYork #NewPaltz #mohonk #lakes #art #salamanders #newts #nature

Why Some #Animals Live for Only Days and Others Live for Thousands of Years
#Scientists are studying why some species live so much longer than others.
Some species of #turtles, #fishes and #salamanders, for instance, don’t show any signs of degeneration or #senescence as they grow older. If they didn’t die of predation, accidents or infectious disease, they could live extremely long lives, Magalhães says.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-some-animals-live-for-only-days-and-others-live-for-thousands-of-years/

My #preLights #article about a preprint dealing with the role of color #polymorphisms in woodland #salamanders to trigger faster #speciation and phenotypic #evolution rates. See also my former post. Photo creative Commons see linked article.
#StefanFWirth Berlin

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/loss-of-a-morph-is-associated-with-asymmetric-character-release-in-a-radiation-of-woodland-salamanders/?share=mastodon

More nocturnean animals.

Have you ever heard of the Flying Dragon Lizard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_volans

On Nocturne little guys like these fill the biological niche of butterflies!

They really love Vulkan.

#Warhammer #Warhammer40k #HorusHeresy #Salamanders #DracoVolans #WarhammerCommunity #Vulkan #Primarch

Losing the larval stage… one step at a time? https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/losing-the-larval-stage-one-step-at-a-time

The evolution of reproductive modes and life cycles in #amphibians https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34474-4

"The most frequent evolutionary transitions have been from the ancestral aquatic mode of reproduction to modes that are relatively uncommon in that group: live-bearing in #caecilians, adults retaining larval features in #salamanders, and #frogs with terrestrial eggs but aquatic #larvae."