Turtles for Jess

a dedication to the world's most patient creature.

[turtles4jess]

Nights like these. Dungeons & Dragons with the Best Friends Gang

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“When you find each other on diverging paths and you’re forced to take a new road, alone and dazed… let your own light be your guide, with confidence as your map and make yourself the destination. Don’t be a hitchhiker on someone else’s path, just to fight the pangs of loneliness. If you keep yourself as the true north, you will always find more people’s paths merging with your own, and some will stay right beside you, even when the terrain gets rough, through thick and thin.” -J.Patterson

Everyone needs a tortoise in their life. I would be no where without Gunther. He just reminds me life isnt that bad, and to take it one step at a time…. And to eat your veggies

[turtles4jess]

Gunther loves halloween time ♥️

[typhlonectes]

Baby African Bush Vipers (Atheris hispida), born recently at the Houston Zoo

photograph by Stephanie Adams | Houston Zoo

[loynosca]

Today is World Sea Turtle Day! In celebration, we share some images from Special Collections & Archives’ copy of Louis Agassiz’s Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America Volume II Part III, “Embryology of the turtle.”  

The top image includes one of the sea turtles native to the United States, the loggerhead sea turtle (no. 13-32), as well as several freshwater softshell turtles (no. 1-7), a painted turtle (no. 8-9), and a musk turtle (no. 10-12). Several illustrators worked with Agassiz on “Embryology of the turtle:” Jacques Burkhardt, Henry James Clark, and Auguste Sonrel.

While Agassiz’s legacy includes endorsement of the theory of polygenism, a form of scientific racism, in his early career he was a well recognized biologist and geologist. The four volumes of Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America were published from 1857-1862 and detail the zoology of American turtles and jellyfish. The compendium was meant to eventually include ten volumes but was never finished.

The remainder of the images pictured from “Embryology of the turtle” are of both freshwater turtles and their eggs and embryos.

Happy day, world sea turtles! Do you like turtles?

[verylittleveterinarian]

Schematic Reptile Anatomy

[cryptid-creations]

Daily Painting 1675# Tortarium by Cryptid-Creations

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Daily Painting 1676# Sea Turtarium by Cryptid-Creations

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these absolute GOOBERS OMG he kiSSED HER

[tastefullyoffensive]

Today’s Best Videos (6/22/17)

Clumsy Baby Elephant Takes a Tumble While Chasing Birds Loki the Cat is a Pro at Hide and Seek Pilot Fakes Engine Failure to Propose to Terrified Girlfriend Adorable Pet Spider Likes to be Pet How to Make an Epic Cardboard Castle for Your Cat Everything Wrong With ‘Get Out’ Khaleesi the Bulldog and Her Baby Dragon Seymour the Squirrel Loves Avocado

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[katswenski]

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[accras]

A woodpecker hitched a ride on the side of this man’s car during a rainy day in Chicago.

[uniquely-khaotic-deactivated201]

Cute but I woulda lost it 😂

[lazysundrops]

Lmfaooooo the way the bird closed its eyes when he said “you’re beautiful” had me weak.

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Cuttlefish pretending to be a hermit crab

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Cuttlefish have such an incredible capacity for mimicry that isn’t talked about enough. Not only can they pretend to be a different sex in order to get sneaky matings with females who are already being guarded by a male, and change their skin color for camouflage, now they’re apparently pretending to be crabs. 

What’s interesting is that when I went to look up pharoah cuttlefish mimicry, the only result I got was this behavior that potentially looks like hermit crab mimicry (the paper on it wouldn’t confirm for sure that’s what the behavior was, just that it seems likely) I couldn’t find evidence of cuttlefish mimicking any other species. So it’s just hermit crabs, I guess. 

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[flapperwitch]

oh god its real

[typhlonectes]

U.S.G.S. - Wildfire and Salamanders

In St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, our scientists work with fire managers so they can use our research to help make the most effective recovery actions for the federally protected frosted flatwoods salamander.

During breeding season, females of this species lay eggs on the outskirts of dry wetland basins, but for this to happen, the ground must be clear of plant detritus, like fallen leaves, branches, bark, and stems.

Prescribed burns are a critical tool in the recovery plan for the salamander because they clear out accumulated plant litter and other vegetation to provide the best habitat conditions for breeding.

Please visit: 

St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge​ USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System​ National Interagency Fire Center​  

Photo of Frosted flatwoods salamander adult. Courtesy Katie O'Donnell, USGS

Fire Photo: Prescribed burns in northwestern Florida benefit species like the frosted flatwoods salamander. Courtesy Katie O'Donnell, USGS

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Cuban Land Snails-Blaesospira echinus

Blaesospira is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae. This is a land snail species endemic to Cuba.