Crustacean!

[Icon ID: A manul with its tongue out. End ID.]

[regularhill]

[lacefuneral]

me if i was lobsta 🦞 monday

[twentythousandblades]

[mosscrab]

saying i'm going to be back on tumblr and then just not doing that.

[jame7t]

just because youre made of stardust & other gay shit doesnt mean that a bug isnt. be nice to a bug today

[rogerrrroger]

1 week no posts and I make this

[mosscrab]

okay off to my nuclear power essays *sprints away cutely

[left-reminders]

[mosscrab]

wait i came on here for a reason

[melodeelaine]

Kingfisher and Great Egret lined up just right

[wolveswolves]

By Ane Holden Eliassen

[spiribia]

gilgamesh is the bigger man than me because if a snake ate my flower that grants immortality that i wanted to use for myself i wouldn't touchingly come to peace with my own mortality and the mortal legacy i leave behind. i would be like if there was a flower that could make me immortal maybe there are other ways

[melodeelaine]

Kingfisher and Great Egret lined up just right

[brutalistcatcafe]

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

[epilepticsaints]

[chloebangbang]

I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type

[specimentality]

I wish every turtle who must cross a road a very safe journey.

I saw a box turtle crossing a highway this morning and my heart dropped. It’s that time of the year again.

If it’s safe for you to help a turtle cross the road, make sure to move them in the direction they were already going in.

If it’s a snapping turtle only touch the back 1/2 or 1/3 of its shell, you can pinch the carapace above their legs or put one hand on the plastron and one on the carapace (like a pizza box). Just don’t grab behind their head, not all snapping turtles are alligator snapping turtles and that’s a good way to lose a finger.

If you find a turtle on the side of the road that has been hit (even if it appears dead) please note your coordinates and check for local rehabbers. Turtles will survive things that no animal should. Even if it’s not survivable, they will stay alive and suffer a gruesome death without someone to help them go peacefully. Sometimes they look dead but aren’t. Either way, if you can bring them to someone to check them out and help, it’s worth it.

Turtles are too good for this world man. Please help keep them safe

[lizziethedergy]

Y'know what? I'll add a couple of pics of turtles I've scooped out of the road in the past couple years. It always makes my day a little better to help 💜 (along with pictures of where I set them back down in the grass, safely out of traffic)

[great-and-small]

When I was in vet school we had a Good Samaritan bring in a critically injured gopher tortoise that had been nearly crushed by a vehicle. Her injuries were severe enough that we were not able to save her and she passed away. However, one of the residents realized the turtle was gravid with a large number of eggs. We removed the that were viable and placed them in a medical incubator where they were checked on daily. A few weeks later we had dozens of baby gopher tortoises and were able to release them near where their momma had been headed to lay her eggs.

If you can, please always get that injured turtle to someone that can help. You never know what will happen when you give animals a fighting chance!

[roundaboutnow]

just saw a turtle dead in the road last week 💔 looked like someone had swerved specially to hit it

thank you, op, for the reminder that this is something i can do instead of letting assholes like that keep killing them

[specimentality]

Unfortunately people intentionally hitting snakes & turtles is a documented phenomenon :(

[bugsbenedict]

[ID: Four biological illustrations, done in ink. Each is labeled with important anatomical parts. The first is of a bee balm plant (Monarda), the second is a spurce branch (Picea), the third is a common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), and the fourth is a frond of Siebold's wood fern (Dryopteris sieboldii). End ID]

last day of my biological illustration class... heres some of my favorites from my portfolio

[glavilio]

you better start believing in the scatman's world... you're living in it

[glavilio]

[kristina100000]

i love how much u love video games

games and a grilled cheese sandwich with the bedroom windows open