The Cryptid Keeper

There is a lot of creepy animals and gay content here. I'm 22, I'm italian, you can use whatever pronouns you want, be creative.

[critterconundrum]

Pulchriphyllium giganteum molting timelapse, recorded on December 14th!

[onenicebugperday]

Absolute unit of a robber fly found by eldoia87 on Reddit (posted with permission)

This beauty is a Beelzebub bee-eater, Mallophora leschenaulti

Found primarily in Texas and Mexico

[overdoso]

Moneilema , os besouros de chifres longos de cactos são um gênero de besouros pretos grandes e incapazes de voar encontrados nos desertos norte-americanos do oeste dos Estados Unidos e norte do México. Como não voam, andam como podem.

[algusunderdunk]

@onenicebugperday

[onenicebugperday]

Cactus longhorn beetle, Moneilema sp., Cerambycidae

[superskulltula]

My teeny tiny Dorcus Paralellus, his name is paimon

[daily-spooky]

[daily-spooky]

[vamplire]

watching a piece of vampire media & seeing fangs go into a neck has me nodding my head like yup that's what i'm talkin about. that's the good shit right there.

[typhlonectes]

The Scorpion, Tityus achilles, discovered in Colombia can spray venom out of its stinger & hit targets up to 35 cm away. The tactic is thought to be a way of defending against would-be predators.

via: New Scientist

[thecryptidkeeperr]

Platinum millipede baby, Salpidobolus sp. irian jaya

[louisegluckpdf]

hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information

[thecryptidkeeperr]

That horrifying moment when you have to decide if it's your instinct helping you or your chronic anxiety being a bitch

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Oh, and fun man ‘o war fact:

You know how they’re colonial organisms? My whole life I thought that meant “they’re made out of thousands of almost microscopic little guys”. You know, like every other colonial organism.

Turns out that’s not true.

They’re made of four guys.

One guy’s the tentacles, one guy’s the stomach, one guy’s the gonads, and one guy’s the funny balloon sail.

here are their weird babies:

you can really see the multiple polyps/medusae

[science-whore]

imagine being the gonads

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

imagine NOT being the gonads

[thecryptidkeeperr]

Polyamorous icons

[homunculus-argument]

It's actually funny how humans decided "fuck living in caves with all these creepy crawlies", got out of caves, built houses that have all the nice parts of a cave without any of the yucky parts, and then all the little bugs and spiders and other creepy crawly creatures that used to also live in caves thought "sweet, new and improved caves" and moved right back in with us.

[enki2]

[thecryptidkeeperr]

I was laughing and then the realisation that this is literally how my gf got me dawned upon me

[daily-spooky]

[arsanatomica]

Ive never really met anyone that thought of ribs as interesting… that’s such a shame. Ribs and the things they do are fascinating…. I think about them everyday.

[paulgadzikowski]

[divinemissly]

I may not be the biggest fan of snakes, but this is fascinating!!

[the-haiku-bot]

I may not be the

biggest fan of snakes, but this

is fascinating!!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[kyraneko]

Universe: So you don’t get any limbs, just ribs.

Snakes: Hold my beer.

[thecryptidkeeperr]

I'll never be able to watch my ball python moving around the same way again, the only thing I'm gonna be able to think about is the tiny inside legs/horror devices.

[wizardarchetypes]

hi i know “don’t believe everything you read on tumblr” has been said enough times at this point in the website’s tenure but i want to specifically say that there is a problem on tumblr and other social media where well-known science enthusiast accounts basically build trust as Knowing Things and then they can say anything they want about those things & everyone just believes them. this is especially a problem among ppl posting about ecology & animal science in my experience.

i’m absolutely throwing stones in my own glass house bc i almost never used to include sources on my wildlife science posts on my old blog but these days i try to make a point of it & i think others should too.

i don’t even think anyone is lying or making things up on purpose. i think they’ve just heard it from another source they consider reliable & they’re spreading incorrect or incomplete information without questioning it, to a much larger platform. about ten years ago I myself made a post repeating something a wildlife professor said to me, which turned out to be outdated info and mostly inaccurate. i trusted him as a source, but i should have looked at the data before sharing it to a wider audience. it was an important lesson!

basically idc how many times popular content creators on here or any other site/app have been correct about other things in other posts. you should still make a habit of asking yourself “what’s the source?” even when it’s a blog you like & trust. bc let me tell ya, i have seen some doozies lately

[thecryptidkeeperr]

Difference between a baby leech that has never been fed vs after their first feeding