[herpsandbirds]

Pink-spotted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus perlatus), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, found in New Guinea

photos: Irawan Subingar, Ekhardt Lietzow, Dubi Shapiro

[anomalousozzy]

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus swimming in a foggy river.

(Edit: I added the Spinosaurus’s reflection in the water)

[fantastic-forest]

[lonelywoodland]

Kyle Cleveland via Unsplash

[okapiaconcolor]

By Peter Southwood - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream! Archaeodromus, Montanoceratops, Synauchenia and Venyukovia.

[mammalianmammals]

Darwin’s Fox or Zorro Chilote (Lycalopex fulvipes), family Canidae, endemic to Chile

ENDANGERED.

fewer than 1,000 individuals thought to remain in the wild.

photograph by Kevin Schafer/iNaturalist

[wildwilds]

portuguese man o' war 🔎

a birds nest inside a coconut 🥥

sunset 🦩

[antiqueanimals]

The First Animals. Written by B. Goodreid. Illustrated by L. Field Marchant. 1970.

Internet Archive

[mammalianmammals]

Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), family Tapiridae, order Perissodactyla

ENDANGERED.

Smallest species of tapir.

The only species of tapir found outside of tropical rainforest.

Found in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Also called the Woolly Tapir or the Andean Tapir.

photograph by Desert Naturalist & Desert Naturalist

[sranie-w-banie21]

Pachycephalosaurus

[okapiaconcolor]

By Christopher Michel - Lone Penguin, CC BY 2.0, Link

[vintagewildlife]

Thylacine By: W. S. Berridge From: A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere 1913

[no-celebration]

Mount Rainier

[inatarachnids]

Rock Docile Scorpion (Opisthacanthus validus)

Observed by luke_kemp, CC BY-NCCC BY-NC

[mammalianmammals]

Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), black morph, family Dasyuridae, ACT, Australia

ENDANGERED.

The population of Eastern Quolls in the ACT was reintroduced.

photograph by Shazzie Macc

[herpsandbirds]

Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii), male, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, New Guinea

These tiny parrots are only 8 cm (3 in) in length. (This measurement does not include the tail feathers).

photographs by Lev Frid

[pennaraptor]

i needed to quickly go find out - these guys weigh 12 to 16 grams