I sleep, but my heart is awake.

I'm Amy. (she/her) (Nothing is mine unless expressly stated.)

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Transitions Part 1…

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brambly

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Andean Motmot or Highland Motmot (Momotus aequatorialis), family Momotidae, order Coraciiformes, Colombia

photograph by Steve Sánchez Calle

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3-6-26

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artist: angela mckay

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🏊‍♀️

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Melanistic Slender Mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus)

Photo by mikeloomis || CC BY-NC 4.0

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Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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[riverwindphotography]

Time Travel

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, May 2026

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Oil painting reproductions museum quality -https://www.chinaoilpaintinggallery.com

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[nature-travel-photography]

Phenomenal Cloudscape Photography 5/28/2026 8:57pm EST unedited/unfiltered - Author: denisescholander

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The single greatest picture ever taken in my life. We threw Yu-gi-oh cards at the ceiling fan to watch them scatter, and just happened to take a picture right at this exact moment. To this day, this is the only time I’ve ever heard of anyone breaking a ceiling fan blade with cards.

[everythingfox]

Perfect fit

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[pnglove]

Mate, you’ve got a chubby lizard on your dashboard

[markscherz]

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

[mrskayathefrog]

'scuse me, Mr @markscherz, does it harm the gecko for the scales to come off?

like, of course it harms them but... can they grow back? like how some lizards can drop their tails and eventually the tails grow back

[markscherz]

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.