Mike Pingleton

Side image of a frog clinging to a grass stalk above floating vegetation in dark water. The frog faces the camera, exposing its white belly and light blue limbs, fingers and toes. The head is lime green, and the bulging eyes are yellow.

Just a few days left in Peru. I love taking the skiff out at night and looking for frogs in the quiet backwaters. One of my favorites, an Orinoco Lime Treefrog (Sphaenorhynchus lacteus). #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿

you play black jack, do it again….

@ketanjoshi.co is exactly right: This quiz is a false dichotomy, pitting a human writer against a machine that steals the work of thousands of human writers and vomits them out according to a soulless algorithm. #AI #writing

An image of Hank Hill (animated series King of the Hill) smoking a cigarette with a satisfied, faraway look on his face

And hopeful

Kilmeade’s talent is voicing the inner thoughts of the moron demographic

Momma crocodile with babies in her mouth

Copic Markers and colored pencil on Fabriano paper
8.3″ x 11.8″ (21 x 30 cm)

#SciArt #animalart #animaldraing #animalillustration #crocodile

Thank you for sharing this

Side view of a river, the far bank lined with tall green rainforest trees, under a partly cloudy sky. The trees are reflected in the river. Rio Tapiche Reserve, northeastern Peru.

The world doesn’t care about stupid human tricks. Clouds are clouding; trees are treeing; the river rolls on forever. 🌿 Rio Tapiche, NE Peru.

Reddish and white (for now) octopus with some tentacles extended. Sitting on a matching coral reef.

Octopus I met snorkeling. I was more enchanted with her than she was with me. 🦑

#marinelife #cephalopod #snorkel #diving #love #peace #eastcoastkin #goodnight #bluesky
#photography #maui #reef

I'm heading to LA this weekend to talk HERPS!

On Sat at 10am I will be doing a kid-friendly reptile talk and event with Paisley Ramstead at the Rancho Mirage library as part of Desert Wildlife Center Presents SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival.
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One of my favorite things to do (tough to stay dry)

I’m only still on Windoze because I use Adobe apps (another crappy story). Otherwise…

a box of little brown balls of clay and dirt and seeds in a philly pretzel factory box

Ready to supply ~100 cyclists w/seed bombs for our city's abandoned lots at tonight's @wednightrides.org!

They contain 6-7 species of native plant seeds to juice up the biodiversity of our city, incl.
Ironweed
Echinacea
Partidge Pea
Bee Balm
Blue Vervain
Blackeyed Susan
Swamp Milkweed (sometimes)

I see Huckabee still labors under the assumption that he’s a funny guy.

Medicare fraud billionaire Bruce Rauner donned a flannel shirt for his tv spots and the good people of Illinois voted him right in. People are suckers for that folksy-manly vibe.

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

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Doesn't even rank in the top ten of Conspiracies So Batshit Crazy They Might Be True

Congratulations!

The Cover of the Revised Edition of Victory Gardens for Bees with a Bumble bee on a red pincushion flower.

Gung hay fat choy! Happy Year of the Fire Horse, which happens to be my sign. (So now you know how old I am!) Today my book launches in U. S. bookstores, so I feel it's and especially auspicious occasion! #victorygardensforbees #bees

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

This is so good

And the fact that it's a PSA...

This is the content I came here for.

Excellent article. I often see Chiasmocleis and Hamptophryne while walking forest trails at night, but I can't recall any proximities to tarantulas. Going forward I will be paying closer attention :)

Tiny Frogs and Giant Spiders: Best of Friends — Tetrapod Zoology It seems a good time to republish this article from the archives, first published at ver 2 in 2009, and then again at ver 3 in 2015…

Among the most popular of articles at Tetrapod Zoology is... Tiny Frogs and Giant Spiders: Best of Friends, published in 2022. It needs more reader comments :) tetzoo.com/blog/2022/8/... #frogs #spiders #amphibians Photos by Emanuele Biggi, used with permission

And, once again, why I have it as a contract point that all art/translation/etc done for my work is done by a human, and why I write all my work myself (aside from the fact I can do it faster and better than if I used "AI" and then had to massage its extremely median text).

Let's meet Micromelo undatus, also called "miniature melo", a species of "bubble shell" sea snail.

She's got a little art deco backpack!

These snails live in shallow waters at locations around the world (Hawaii, South Africa, Japan).