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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] · 2026-08-24 · 09:30 UTC

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎸🐍 Scientists named a newly described #NewGuinea groundsnake, "Lielaphis slashi", after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, for his love of #reptiles.

Herpetologist Chris Austin first spotted the 71 cm (28 in) snake during nighttime fieldwork in 2006. Genetic and ecological analysis confirmed it as a distinct #species, supporting #conservation in New Guinea’s threatened #forests.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/snake-species-named-after-guns-n-roses-guitarist-slash/

#snakes #gunsnroses #herpetology #science #biodiversity #zoology #fieldmuseum #nature #wildlife #reptiles #discovery #genetics

#newguinea #reptiles #species #conservation #forests #snakes

Public Domain Image Archive @[email protected] · 2026-08-23 · 19:01 UTC

Hugo Simberg, ca. 1908.

Source: Finnish National Gallery / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/68e99974-59d8-4a2e-ae5c-e0aa99c9e833

#models #painting #paradise #smiling #nature #snakes #tampere #death #foliage #frescoes #leaves #photography #art #publicdomain

#models #painting #paradise #smiling #nature #snakes

earthling @[email protected] · 2026-08-23 · 10:03 UTC

The longest patient

Chester, UK
A 15ft-long python named after the actor Jodie Foster is believed to be the first snake in the world to benefit from a cancer treatment normally used on humans. Vets at Chester zoo said the reptile was back to her ‘bright and feisty self’ after undergoing electrochemotherapy for a cancerous tumour on her jawbone.

Photograph: Chester zoo/PA

#photography
#pythons
#snakes
#cancer

#photography #pythons #snakes #cancer

MinmiTheDino @[email protected] · 2026-08-23 · 04:14 UTC

The 5yo who claims he cannot read walked into a reptile house for the first time today. He goes to the first enclosure: “that’s a red tailed boa” he says (correct). He goes to the second enclosure: “that’s an emerald tree boa” (correct).

Y’all. How. HOW.

#snakes #parenting

Marcus Adams @[email protected] · 2026-08-23 · 02:28 UTC

Spotted this little guy in our back yard this evening. He dropped out of our metal shed and made a loud bang when I took the dog back out, and then I saw him running across the ground. First thing hit my mind was Copperhead because I was in flip flops, and I've encountered them while barefoot in the past. Thanksfully he's harmless, :-)

#Snakes

#snakes

Starry Time Podcast @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 23:24 UTC

We did our best to understand the cosmic egg in this week's episode on some #snakes from #GrecoRoman #mythology

Did we fully understand it? ... errmmmm, well, find out for yourself in this week's podcast: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/serpens-myths-and-retconstellations/

📷 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_egg#/media/File:Orphic-egg.png

#mythology #snake #GreekMythology #StarLore #serpens #CosmicEgg #podcast #storytelling #orphic

#snakes #grecoroman #mythology #snake #greekmythology #starlore

The Guardian Feeds @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 04:10 UTC

Python named Jodie Foster first snake to receive pioneering cancer treatment
By Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

Chester zoo resident, 23, ‘back to her usual feisty self’ after electrochemotherapy for tumour in her jaw

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/21/python-jodie-foster-snake-cancer-electrochemotherapy

#Animals #Snakes #Veterinarymedicine #Chester #Cheshire #NorthofEngland #England #UKnews #Science #Wildlife #Cancer #TheGuardian #HannahAlOthmanNorthofEnglandcorrespondent

#animals #snakes #veterinarymedicine #chester #cheshire #northofengland

World news | The Guardian @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 04:02 UTC

Python named Jodie Foster first snake to receive pioneering cancer treatment https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/21/python-jodie-foster-snake-cancer-electrochemotherapy #Animals #Snakes #VeterinaryMedicine #Chester #Cheshire #NorthOfEngland #England #UkNews #Science #Wildlife #Cancer

#animals #snakes #veterinarymedicine #chester #cheshire #northofengland

Starry Time Podcast @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 20:49 UTC

she-dragon.
she-viper.
the rotting one.
eel of Tartarus.
serpent womb.

LONG LIVE ECHIDNA!

To learn more about the mother of monsters, check out our episode this week on #mythology of the #constellation Serpens: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/serpens-myths-and-retconstellations/

🎨 :https://www.deviantart.com/sarapsys/art/Echidna-174007722

#monsters #lore #WomenMonsters #Legends #mythology #snakes #snake #Serpens #GreekMythology

#mythology #constellation #monsters #lore #womenmonsters #legends

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 19:15 UTC

A pesar de sus colores amenazantes, la serpiente Farancia abacura no es venenosa y, aunque pincha a sus presas con la punta de su cola, tampoco tiene un aguijón. 📷Riley Stanton #serpientes #snakes

#serpientes #snakes

The Mexican Horse Thief @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 11:59 UTC

Unnatural Phenomena Hypothesis One

Just recently we had all those elephants that died, and still no idea why? Oh lots of theories but not one solid fact I can find. Then the Sardines of our coast here. Again a lot of speculation, and I see the … people that play the virus fear game are already onto this one! Bullshit Trust the Science coming up!

While this is going on I have been looking up all the poisons that are used for just insect “control” so far. How no matter what the Trust the Science says on the labels, what we use DOES NOT break down. The bastards actually write that in the fine print, same as they do on your medicine drugs.

Before we go even one bloody step further better put in this bit of info, as I have one of them thingies.

A hypothesis is a proposed, testable explanation for a phenomenon or a specific prediction about the relationship between two or more variables. It serves as a starting point for further investigation or scientific experiments.

One gets “ Cold Case “ files on say murder. One day some ou admits to a few and that cleans up the docents a bit. The Biological Disaster Docket id FULL of unexplained things, full. The whales that beach is the biggest example, as whales are… big.

My hypothesis is just off the top of my head at the moment, but I think it IS a starting point for the further investigation.

Neurotoxins are to blame for some of these phenomena!

Most of the poisons for insects have neurotoxic poison in them. As I am already proving that these are in every single Biosphere, and still active this could explain a bit, the starting point. Neurotoxin I read about and kept up with my whole life. It is the venom that could kill me, not hurt, kill. And relatively quickly. Also I felt a bit of the effects of a bit of it in me! That Stiletto Snake has a bit in it. I had not had a drink or taken ANY mild altering substance for a few years at the time I was bitten. Oh boy, the pain was bad but the wonky drunk feeling was cool! Later that night the nightmares were not so cool ha ha.

Why do I tell you this? Because all living things on this planet right now are exposed to a lot of this type of toxin. Therefore back to the whales. I believe that the neurotoxins are making them drunk, losing their sense of bearing, crashing into land. In Visser and Chapman’s book,(old book) Snake and Snake Bite, one case history is of a chap bitten by a Black Mamba. He gets to hospital, gets treated and becomes a jolly fellow, like a happy drunk, doc goes home as patient seems fine. Patient died a little while after. He was high on venom. You may have seen there is a fad in India where men get bitten by Cobras to get high? Well, a drunk whale…. Could be as simple an explanation as that.

Again, I refer to The Butterfly Effect. How much poison is in say, those Krill?Need a person that can look into this stuff for me….

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#bigfivewars #bigpharma #biodivercity #biology #bissetcollection #conservation

My camera shoots fascists @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 05:50 UTC

If you're not following me, there is a post above this one about a baby rattlesnake I found right next to the porch when I got home and then relocated about a mile away. I forgot to change the visibility to public.

So there is this widespread belief that if you relocate a rattlesnake, it will die, therefore "might as well kill them anyway."

I'm in the process of compiling studies about this topic. There is some truth to the fact that relocated snakes don't fare so well, but there is significant nuance here. It'll be the topic of a blog post!

Either way, the bottom line for me is that moving that little snake out to the edge of town means one of two things will happen: it will find a new home and thrive; or, it will help feed road runners, king snakes and anything else that eats rattlesnakes. Either one is fine with me. I won't kill them.

#HerpReport #Snakes #Rattlesnakes #herps

#herpreport #snakes #rattlesnakes #herps

Starry Time Podcast @[email protected] · 2026-08-19 · 22:02 UTC

What if instead of a generic snake -- #Serpens became -- Nüwa??

Nüwa is a woman-headed snake goddess in #Chinese #mythology who created humans from clay.

She was one of Jordan's ret-cons(tellations) for the serpens constellation this week!

Listen to the episode here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/serpens-myths-and-retconstellations/

📷 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#/media/File:Imperial_Encyclopaedia_-_Spirits_and_the_Supernatural_-_pic54_-_%E5%A5%B3%E5%AA%A7%E7%A5%9E%E5%9C%96.svg

#mythology #myth #legend #lore #ChineseMythology #StarLore #Serpents #Snakes #Serpens #constellations #Retcon #storytelling