#herptiles

[jetix]

California Newt, 2018-01-13

[xykcta]

my page for a "ГадБук" (or "Herpbook"? err in this artbook, all the characters are herptiles, but in russian there is a word for them - "гад")

[howtotrainyourdragonprince]

I LOVED this movie!!! ✨

The new Swapped movie is absolutely fantastic; gorgeous art/world-building, genius writing/character development, and a killer score to bring it all together.

Y’all know I’m an animal nut (and a herp girlie especially), so this was what I had way too much fun drawing last night:

I give you, the valley’s prominent amphibian, the sodling! 😁💚🦎

Sodlings blend in perfectly with the wet, mossy ground that surrounds the rivers and lakes of their wetland habitats. When they feel threatened, they tuck in their heads and their flowery ruff and many buds burst open, making the sodling indistinguishable from their surroundings.

As mentioned in the design, sodlings eat a variety of flower buds and watery greens, though they would not mind munching on a piplet seed or two if some happened to fall into the water.

These colorful salamanders mate for life, and it’s not uncommon to find a pair engaging in ritualistic mating dances on the riverbanks on a warm, summer evening. The brighter and fuller a sodling’s ruff, the healthier and more attractive they appear.

As for noises, for any valley creature that hasn’t yet come into contact with a glowing pod, sodlings’ calls would closely resemble a high pitched, squeaky churr with repetitiveness altering in a fashion not unlike Morse code.

Finally, the species’s culture is more solitary than social, with the exception of mated pairs living together. They establish distinct territories, though they don’t fight over them as much as they perform display battles where they flare their flower-ruffs, and the larger one wins. An arbitrary group is both necessary and customary for these displays, so sodlings’ territories are never too far apart from one another in case a group of witnesses needs to be gathered in haste. Sodling couples love to decorate their homes with little things like shells, pebbles, and leaves. It is a common cultural aspect that the more decorative a sodling home, the longer they have lived there; thereby calling that territory their own without any challenge.

(can you tell I had way too much fun with this? Ok, bye 🤣)

[aydenburd-photography]

Boulder County, CO — April 2026

[thenixkat]

Lizards do not get enough credit for being objectively cool animals with a lot of fucking variety.

Also like many other reptiles they're way smarter and more expressive than people give them credit for.

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[bootleg-nessie]

Do you like frogs, snakes, lizards, and other herptiles? I sure do! Share if you’re also proud member of the HERPIE COMMUNITY 🫶❤️

[cool-crocodilian]

Silly salamander :3

[dulledtalons]

my collection of lovely birds

crow country plush arrived yesterday and i’m immeasurably happy with how stupid he looks