Cephalopods are my precious babies.

Professional VFX artist. Cephalopod enjoyer. Bird enthusiast. Thousand Sons stan. Adorable Tyranid truther. 25+

[elli-oridush-art]

Гарви! Окей, пусть этот красавчик будет первой публикацией здесь Гарви для челленджа #Givemecharacterstomakefanartof ~~~

Okay, let Garvel Loken be the first post here for the #Givemecharacterstomakefanartof challenge!

[49wasagreatyear]

[birds-in-posts]

Bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus)

[awlwren]

[id: photo of the reedling, a fawn and gray songbird, with its legs doing a split as it clings to two plants rising from the water’s surface and ducks its head down to drink.]/end id.

[machinot]

As a kid you see seahorses in cartoons as actual underwater horses for the fish people to ride on and it makes u never really realize how fucking weird seahorses actually are. Forget the horse part and just look at this fish. It’s a serpentine type fish like an eel, with a tube shaped body, but it’s stuck in a stiff C shape and can mostly only articulate its head and tail. So it swims standing upright. With its weird tiny hummingbird fins. Is this weird to anyone else

[rainyydoves]

it's also kind of hard to get until you see it but they are literally just barely wrapped around their skeletons. there is no extra meat there.

a tiny bony as hell animal with a prehensile tail that is incapable of swimming like other fish (so they cling to seaweed and coral). they can do mpreg. some of them are ambush predators. nobody does this like them

[lansuella]

SEPHIROTHHH

[endivinity]

hey whats your deal. why are you so antennas

[xander-wolk]

This beetle showed up in my dream, so I drew it

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

[markscherz]

[catchymemes]

[falchieyan]

Kitten's first walker.

Sylvanian Family / Calico Critter kitten in a Hermes Sentinel from Warhammer 40k.

[heartattackkidd]

@gallus-rising

[astra-the-dragon]

@krynnmeridia

[kangals]

kep's favorite hobby is crawling onto your lap so he can breathe really loudly and wetly 1 inch away from your face. it is so so important to him that you let him do this.

[kangals]

HI HI HI HI

[violetsandshrikes]

i know someone who works in conservation, who on the side has a large outdoor aviary and roughly 20 rainbow lorikeets they’ve taken in as they’ve been dumped/unwanted gifts or long-term pets/pets that have been released/etc, and she’s very knowledgeable and keeps them in great condition

i love seeing them though because we have a terrible and hilarious game. in the aviary i will be leaving out fruit skewers and things for them, and then i’ll dramatically lie on my side and pretend i died. it takes about 5 minutes, and then there’s an entire flock of lorikeets climbing on me, squeaking, nibbling and investigating.

the next part of the game is popping up my head and going “boo!” which is where the real fun begins, because the little rainbow nightmares jump, and then get delighted and start happy squealing and bouncing around (and chewing because they truly never stop)

while we all love this game, ive been cheerfully informed from the outside it looks even funnier, because it looks like I’ve been jumped by a group of lorikeets and they won

[blizz4rd1203]

Who the fuck is that thing tolling for

[panicatthecriscodisco]

[crazy-brazilian]

[suchcrispwhimsy]

never been seen in the same room together

[aflo]

Attempting to locate a new Greek restaraunt using my gyroscope

[jetix]

Sara Hagale, 2023-09-06

[invertedspearofhell]

[amnhnyc]

Here’s a gigantic African land snail (Lissachatina glutinosa) to brighten your day! 🐌Found in parts of eastern Africa including Malawi and Tanzania, this jumbo gastropod can grow up to 5.9 in (15 cm)—making it one of the world’s largest snails! This critter inhabits forest edges as well as river and lake shores. It’s a member of the Achatinidae family, which includes a number of similarly sized snails, some of which have become invasive species outside of their natural ranges.

Photo: Kai Joaquin, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist