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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Aren’t eastern painted turtles beautiful???

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The Orianne Society @oriannesociety.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Meet one of the South’s most important landlords: the Gopher Tortoise. These humble reptiles dig deep burrows that support over 350 other species — from frogs to snakes to insects. But as longleaf pine habitat disappears, so does the tortoise… and everything that depends on it.

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Started field work for my MS and I’ve been having a blast!

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone! Here’s a Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) found in South GA.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

No locality posting this week, as I will be traveling. Here's a Mishana Poison Frog (Ranitomeya amazonica) from NE Peru. They are small as frogs go, and this adult comfortably on my thumbnail :) #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography

A side view of a brilliantly colored poison frog, perched on a small branch and facing left. The body of the frog is jet black, with two bright red stripes that run from the head to the rear end. The side is also jet black, with a stripe starting at the front leg that divides like a tuning fork - the upper stripe starts out as a light metallic blue, changing to a yellowish orange; the lower stripe remains light metallic blue. The arms, legs, fingers, and toes of the frog are a light metallic blue, broken up by a series of irregular oval spots of jet black of different sizes. The jet black eye is hidden in the jet black side stripe.

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Evan Grimes, M.S. @iowanaturalist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with this pretty red and green scene! Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) from northern Georgia this fall #herps

A red salamander with black spots on a mossy substrate with some brownish leaves in the frame

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Seems like there’s a theme this week, another gorgeous diamondback found on a rather successful survey. This gorgeous individual seemed unbothered by our presence and was left alone after some brief photos. #herps

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Another eastern diamondback rattlesnake found by one of our volunteers! #herps

The inside of a gopher tortoise burrow with a dark coiled up rattlesnake about 6 feet in

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Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It’s #frogfriday so bringing back my absolute favourite facts about corroboree frogs… and it’s that they wiggle their toes to attract their food! 🤤🦗🐸

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plesnercph🇩🇰 @plesnercph.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

🐸Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus). At 4.2cm (1.7") females are slightly larger than males. Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Males fight for territories during mating season. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷 by Ivan Rojas on Pexels.

Frog with mint green and black colours sitting on a large brown leaf. The frog looks slightly to the left of the camera.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I posted this on John Scalzi's feed earlier so I should post it here as well. My last book, "The Field Herping Guide: Finding Amphibians and Reptiles in the Wild" was published in 2019 (you can skip the Bazillionaire middle man and order directly from the press) ugapress.org/book/9780820... #books

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The Field Herping Guide

Herping is the observation of amphibians and reptiles for recreation or for the production of citizen science—the cold-blooded equivalent of birding. The F...

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Simon Maddock @simonmaddock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL). For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau... 🐍🧪🐸🔬

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Imma make this Pitcher Plant day - Flask Pitchers (Nepenthes ampullaria) from SW Borneo. Other pitcher plants are carnivores, eating the remains of insects trapped inside, but N. ampullaria is a detritivore - its open top collects falling leaf litter & other organics. 🌿🌱#NaturePhotography 1/2 🧵

Four pitcher plants in the image, three more or less pointing upwards, one pointing to the right. The 'pitchers' are basically tubes that are bag-shaped, and their openings are roughly triangular. A leaflike structure is attached to one corner of the triangle, pointing downward. Two of the pitchers are light green, with rusty red spots and streaks, and the other two are orangeish-red in color, with darker spots and streaks. The insides of the pitchers appear to be the same color as the outside.

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ornate chorus frogs (Pseudacris ornata) are some of the prettiest anurans in the southeastern United States. They come in gray, green, and reddish- brown color phases and gather to breed during the winter months.

A small brown frog with a black mask-stripe across the eyes and additional dark markings on the sides and back.

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A juvenile Toad-head Turtle (Mesoclemmys nasuta) from NE Peru back in January. These are pleurodires, or side-neck turtles - their head tucks to either side under the shell. A different group from cryptodires, which pull their head and neck straight back under the shell. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

A side few of a small turtle, the head turned to face the camera. The upper shell is very flat and rough, and the rim of the shell is a very dark brown, while the scutes in the center are a light shade of brown. A small part of the lower shell is visible, and it is brownish-yellow. Three of the legs and feet are visible, and they are a dark gray color, and there is webbing between the toes. The head is large and wide, and a dark grayish-brown on top, with a brownish-yellow color along the jawline and along the chin and lower neck. The eyes are large and match the head color's grayish-brown, and the nostrils are close together and upturned.

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harrison-kent.bsky.social @harrison-kent.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A beautiful desert skink (Liopholis inornata) from far north South Australia. #WildOz

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It’s always a good day when you get to see the king of all rattlesnakes, the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus).

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

No snakes on our surveys today, but we flipped this little corn snake under some tin on the way home!

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Jesus Rodriguez Riverol @amphibamigo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

On today’s survey, what I thought for a second was a charred stick turned out to be a beautiful Eastern hognose snake!!

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

An adult Yellow-spotted Night Lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum) from NW Costa Rica. Interesting lizards in many ways - for one thing they are live-bearers rather than egg-layers, and some populations are female-only (parthenogenic), including those in Costa Rica. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿

A large, heavy-bodied lizard with strong limbs, viewed from the side, left to right. The tail curls around to face the right. The lizard's ground color is dark brown, with lighter brownish-yellow spots and bars along the head, body, and tail. The head is large with powerful jaws, and there is a ridge of rough scales running down the back and along the tail. Some belly scales can be seen between the front and back legs; they are yellowish-brown and ringed in very dark brown.

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