[asteroidtroglodyte]

TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

[iheartvelma]

There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

[certainly-april]

Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!

[grimoiremanifest]

❗️Great Hog is displeased by this.

The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"

- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.

[certainly-april]

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

you come onto my post and be funnier than me

[weaselle]

skillet issue

[sixparasites]

GIFTED EVERY STRENGTH

[lleyksie]

brown bears ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ

[foxsnails]

I absolutely love Night Herons and whatevers wrong with them <3

More fun with the water-soluable pastels!

[canisalbus]

✦ Cinderella ✦

[canisalbus]

I might have misread snooter and thought "oh, I suppose he could have a scooter. He's going to race after the pumpkin carriage with his trusted Vespa."

[monstermonger]

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

[monstermonger]

Wow thanks everyone ;v;

Mini lore snippet lol: at first I just doodled the cat alone in the middle of a page, but I loved him so much I just turned the page and drew the whole thing. He's so great.

[targetedknowledge]

[yellow-cat]

sun started shining

[bewarerobber]

@travelling-hare

[tamthingdraws]

i finally managed to paint something substantial after 500 years and to absolutely no one's surprise it's some kind of Horse

[saturnvs]

i hear the wind across the plain a sound so strong, that calls my name

[sneatergrub]

[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Polychaete of the day is the emerald green paddle worm (Eulalia clavigera). This thing sure is green and worm.

Photos by Michiel Vos and Julien Bottinelli

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

[herpsandbirds]

Perak Horned Frog (Xenophrys aceras), family Megophryidae, Pahang, Malaysia

photographs by Koh Ke Han