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You've heard about Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature… but have you heard about Zig zag‽

[Miralles et al. 2026 CC BY-NC 4.0]

A few weeks ago, friends and colleagues of mine (I was not involved) published this incredible new species of legless skink that makes distinctive zig-zag markings in the sand as it 'swims' through it.

[Miralles et al. 2026 CC BY-NC 4.0]

So they called it Zig zag.

ZIG ZAG, CORAL!

Gosh I love this new era of whimsy-driven taxonomy.

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

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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

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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

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happy world frog day, 50 frogs to go until we hit 8,000 species described!!

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@markscherz

markscherz

There is a small but real chance I will get to Do The Thing. Watch this space.

astraldrake

Going through my old refs made me nostalgic so have some Osirises for old time's sake

bonus sketch under the cut

big bird's got a lot of cousins for someone who was supposed to die in the challenger disaster

#lucy is sleeby

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kuttithevangu

The thing about the moon is maybe you don’t need to write a poem about the moon. The moon’s been done, we’ve discussed it. It’s a coin a mirror an eye a lantern in the darkness. It’s a rock in space. It’s the dang moon we’ve all seen it! Is there something you can notice that’s is more surprising than the moon???