how strange it is to be anything at all

ben/slub's creature repository (side blog)

[heartnosekid]

blue dream shrimp (neocaridina davidi) having a snack | shrimpsensei on ig

[escuerzoresucitado]

Common tree shrew

[inatungulates]

Kiang Equus kiang

Observed by migi30, CC BY-NC

[inatungulates]

American elk Cervus canadensis canadensis

Observed by beetlii, CC BY-NC

[herpsandbirds]

Semipalmated Plovers (Charadrius semipalmatus), courtship display, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, Ninigret Pond Mudflats, Rhode Island, USA

photograph by Kara Zanni

[thelostcanyon]

Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea), Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona.

[drafthearse]

Full body view of a geometric moray (Gymnothorax griseus) shot during a night dive in Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt.

[snailspotter]

Today's snail: Olivancillaria auricularia | Ear Ancilla

(source)

[snailspotter]

oh, to be held gentle like the hamburger...

(sources: left, right)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[magicmama]

SCRIMPS

[slopforhogs]

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu)

Captured by larissavillarreal, CC BY-NC 4.0

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[252mya]

Atopodentatus has one of the best paleontology glow-ups. When it was first described in 2014, scientists thought this marine reptile had a genuinely bizarre zipper-like mouth. Then in 2016, two new fossils showed up and revealed that the original specimen was badly crushed. Its actual face looked way more like a handheld vacuum cleaner than a zipper. Art by Joschua Knüppe. Merchandise available at https://fossi.ls/I5mFds.

[decapod-of-the-day]

Decapod of the day: Zenopontonia rex | Emperor Shrimp

[spiritofthegreenforest]

Pine Marten, female and kit by Mark Bowen

[muffinworry]

Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

[1968bullittmustang]

Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping - npj Biodiversity

We confirm the ‘rediscovery’ of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), one of only five modern egg-laying mammals and

[snototter]

A varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius) stands out amongst the snow in British Columbia, Canada

by R Hardy

[echinoderm-of-the-day]

Today’s echinoderm is Chiridota discolor, commonly known as the intertidal jellybean according to inaturalist.

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41585854

[sqweanky]

YOOOO manic breakdown POSTPONED LOOK AT THIS THING

the kowari....