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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Captured in bright indoor lighting before a hessian pin board, a Great Horned Owl with wide-eyes and wet-plumage is cloaked in a white cloth. Spiked feathers radiate from his head in all directions, like a hairy durian, accentuating his look of shock and indignation. We may have found the true paragon of Owls in Towels.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 16/03/2026

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin, showing an american robing standing on a lawn - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches, a flower that looks like a pair of underwear with a hole - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's a wood frog calling from a pond, and #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's a drawing of a spring peeper and #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The fuzzy promise of blooms to come #SignsOfSpring 🌿

Small fuzzy buds on thin bare branches, lit up from behind.

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Ninargh 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻 @ninawils.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Relatable Corvid

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My snowdrop necklace made by casting a real snowdrop in recycled silver

My lily of the valley necklace made by casting a real lily of the valley flower in recycled silver

My wren necklace, individually handmade like all my jewellery designs, made by sculpting a tiny wren in recycled silver

My bluebell necklace made by casting a real English bluebell from a friend's garden in recycled silver

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Mamady @mamady.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

For a fleeting moment, the clouds perfectly mirrored the peaks of Manaslu (the 8th highest mountain in the world). #stunday #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #b&W #art #clouds #cloudscape #nepal #hiking #sunday #bluesky #scape #landscape #mountains #sky

A black and white photo of Mount Manaslu framed by a plume of cloud drifting upward, echoing the mountain’s peaks. Light and wind carve a temporary silhouette that hangs for only a heartbeat.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Velvet ants are so common in the Florida sand that I don't always give them a second look (unless they're miniscule), but this one caught my eye because it suddenly buried itself in the sand, by scooting backwards. Brachynemurus nebulosus - an ant lion mimicking velvet ants! 🧪 #Invertebrates

Ant lion larvae with the trademark giant grabby jaws, and red-orange day changing to stripy black and white in the booty, like a velvet ant

Closer shot of the giant jaws, and little blackberry eyes

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 03/07/2025

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Was visited by baby aliens at the banding station today 👽👽👽 (American Woodcock)

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25/05/2025

Baby bird bleps? HOW ABOUT EYES CLOSED BABY BIRD BLEPS AAAAHH!! You never know what you're going to capture when you leave your apartment 🥰 🥰

A candy Goose Gosling with its eyes closed leaning its head back and sticking out tongue

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I think that this superb parrot chick is objectively 25/10 adorable I can’t even with its face fluff

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Royal Free 1955 @rfh1955.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Ten years ago today. The Plain Dealer, Ohio, US. 1st March 2015. #mecfs #cfsme #myalgicencephalomyelitis #myalgice

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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 28/02/2025

This is perhaps the most outrageous thing I've ever captured. A moonbow (rainbow made from moonlight rather than sunlight), with snow (rather than rain) with the northern lights behind it. A Polar Lunar Snowbow?

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025

I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

Paromola cuvieri carrying a deep sea coral
Source : @irisgorgona

Paromola cuvieri carrying a sponge

Image: OCEANA

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 21/02/2025

Race a tiger beetle, blow up a pipeline, eat some dry leaves! You can do anything as an isopod! 🦐🧲 Isopod demo is OUT NOW and will be available until the end of Steam Next Fest on March 3rd! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/02/2025

I’m so excited to announce that my new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is available for preorder! It's a humorous dictionary of real birding terms and goofy definitions, plus a ton of silly illustrations. It's out May 6 but you can preorder it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

The cover of a book called The Birding Dictionary: A Tongue-in-cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds. Written and illustrated by Rosemary Mosco.

A book excerpt: snood /ˈsnüd/ noun: The naked, erectile lump of flesh on a turkey’s forehead. It can stick up like a hideously gnarled unicorn horn or droop down like a meaty teardrop, and it changes color from salami-red to corpse-blue depending on a turkey’s arousal and anxiety levels. Female turkeys prefer males with longer snoods. This word and its definition are best invoked when you’re in a dull conversation and you’d like to bring it to an abrupt end."

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is... we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The spectacular Crimson-collared Tanager at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #nature #costarica

A striking bird with a bold red head and chest perches confidently on a moss-covered branch. Its sleek black body contrasts sharply with its fiery plumage, while a bright white beak and piercing red eye add to its intense expression.

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serenebabe @serenebabe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

if you see someone wearing a mask PLEASE assume that YES, they would love it if you also masked. if they say “no, don’t worry about it” they probably don’t mean it. signed, an immunocompromised people-pleaser

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Masked Flowerpiercers are omnivorous birds that eat insects, fruit, and nectar. They use their uniquely shaped beak to cut a hole in the bottom of flowers to drink nectar. These birds can be found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains. Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

A blue bird with a black mask and a red eye. It is standing on a mossy log next to an epiphyte (small plant living on the log).

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Dr Soph @sophiavolzke.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I did capture a SMILING echidna in 2020. Perfect snap of the moment! Might be useful at this trying time :)

An echidna on brown mulch ground looking up at the camera and smiling.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

While pylochelids MAY represent a similar form to the ancestral hermit crab, symmetry has re-evolved many times within them (longboi-ification of carcinization?) 🦀🧪🦑 In rocks, in wood, in abandonded worm tubes in coral, and more! I'm really interested in this!

Pylocheles mortensenii, occupying a pumice that is laughably huge compared to the crab

from:
https://1023world.net/ypark/anomura/Pylocheles-mortensenii (actual photo credit in Japanese?)

Xylopagurus cf. philippinensis (Family Paguridae). PHOTO: SJADES 2018
The slender twig-dwelling hermit crab with a straight body has adapted its body to live inside the narrow cavities of hollow twigs and sticks. It relies on sunken wood as a major source of food or substrate.

Paguritta corallicola
ADORABLE hermit crab sticking out of a hole in Porites coral, with only its dotted eyes on striped eystalks, long plankton waving antennae, and orange claws visible

photo from https://reefguide.org/pagurittacorallicola.html

Cancellus heatherae, a hermit crab separately evolved to also live in rocks (but not shown, here you only see the straight abdomen)
It is named after my colleague Heather Bracken-Grissom

https://news.fiu.edu/2020/hello-world-meet-the-heather-crab

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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

#OnlyBeautifulThings Along a stretch of the Pacific Coast Trail in the Desolation Wilderness: a view from Fontanillis Lake/Falls, with the three Velma Lakes and Lake Tahoe beyond. Sometimes I envy the PCT hikers being able to see this for the first time.

A view from top of a series of small cascading waterfalls in a mountain creek. There are three lakes in an alpine mountain bowl. Beyond is Lake Tahoe and another mountain range. The sky is clear. There are multiple bunches of wildflowers growing next to the stream.

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Rufous exploring the Faerie Garden! #FromTheArchives #birds #becurious 🪶

photo of a rufous hummingbird flying amind four or five different types of blooming flowers.

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Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Taking a pause on lantern bugs. Not sure what's next so here's a pleasing fungus beetle (why pleasing?) from the Peruvian Amazon. It's blue, so enjoy it! Probably Cypherotylus debauvei, previously under the genus Gibbifer.

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roki @rokitaok.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

【HP更新6/12】ハンミョウ 2018年撮影分より、新規追加しました。 roki.main.jp/site/sp0349....

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hidden in plain sight. Can you find the critter? 🔎 🧐

A photos of a plant branch with dead leaves and twigs. Hidden within is an arthropod.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 29/12/2024

I found a huge fallen Lobaria lichen.

A large green lichen with big lobes and vein texture

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Day 26 of my 2024 favorites: Mangrove crabs in actual mangrove 💛 Little grabby hands politely snacking on the flowers while maintaining eye contact with the weird bipeds 🥹

Mottled dark boxy little crab with small grabby claws pinching at the yellow mangrove flower the creature is straddling

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A tiny tiger with teeth on the back end 👀 Happened to come home from work today to find this Conura wasp on my personal car, roaming like she just emerged. Been a long time since I saw a Leg Day Bae at home! #InverteFest

Yellow-orange chalcid wasp with black spots and stripes and thick hind femurs with teeth

Close shot of the toothy hind legs, with a scythe-like segment which closes on the toothy femur

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 17/12/2024

A walk through a Pacific Northwest forest in the winter, from a camping trip a few years ago.

a cluster of small white mushrooms growing otu the side of a log

an uprooted tree, the roots sticking up into the air like a fan, covered in moss now

a narrow path through a green rainforest with tall trees, ferns moss and a down log covered in moss

peltigera lichen, green, large, flat with thick veins

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Great call by the US CDC. Invasive pneumococcal disease is common and deadly. Newer vaccines are highly effective, and also have important herd (indirect) effects because they prevent bacterial carriage.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's Dec. 1st, which means I begin my recap of the year's favorites by posting a creature per day for the duration. They may be something rare, something pretty, something silly, something I just love for Reasons, or something all of the above. Here's an anole cuddled in a moth cocoon, for Day 1. 💚

Green anole, head and part of its tail poking out of a large oblong moth cocoon dangling under an oak twig

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dottiespeck.bsky.social @dottiespeck.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

@dieworkwear.bsky.social what kind of coat is this and do you know where to get one please? 🤩

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

(In fact there is a pretty cool paper from about 6 months ago showing that someone got covid in a hospital room from a patient who had been discharged and left the room several hours before they arrived).

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Don Milton @donmilton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is me with mumps in the late 1950s. Back then about 180,000 kids got it every year and 40 or 50 died. A few hundred others end up with deafness or other disabilities. I just had high fevers and hallucinations, missed a lot of school that year – 2 weeks for mumps and 2 weeks for chicken pox.

Black & White photo of male (me) age 6 with swollen cheeks lying on his side in bed, head on a pillow, eyes closed. Oddly, there's a wire coat hanger the corner of which is sticking out from under the pillow. Maybe it was somehow taking pressure off the swelling on the other side.

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Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

BEST BUGS THREAD! 🦋⬇️ Everyone I want you to drop a photo of the NICEST invert you’ve ever seen! 😍 I’m starting with a Leichhardts Grasshopper from Kakadu NP! 🧡💙

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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I was trying to figure out some health issues so I installed NO/Gas detectors near our gas stove and in our room. Within months, there was a 13-fold difference in NO. Induction stoves are not just better for cooking. They're better for the planet and better for you. news.stanford.edu/stories/2024...

news.stanford.edu

Gas stoves emit unsafe levels of nitrogen dioxide

A new study finds people in households with gas stoves are breathing unhealthy levels of a pollutant linked to childhood asthma, even in rooms far from the kitchen.

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Dr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

*Giant: large, but more or less the same as the Argiope native to NY **Venomous: like saying "dogs with tails"; basically all spiders are. incredibly few have venom that's harmful to humans; this ain't one ***Flying: they balloon only as babies, to find new homes, like many spiders native to NY 🌿🕷️🧪

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dottiespeck.bsky.social @dottiespeck.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

I just realized there's a little friend underneath the mushroom! #globularspringtail

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ME/CFS News @mecfsnews.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

ME/CFS patients tend to arrive exhausted in the doctor's office and in this state cannot think or communicate properly, stand up for themselves, or explain the illness to another person. They arrive in an especially vulnerable state. I believe this contributes to how misunderstood the illness is.

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Did you know that New Zealand and other land masses in the south-west Pacific are home to LEAF-VEINED SLUGS? Unlike their omnivorous European relatives, these slugs eat only fungi. They breathe mainly through the skin of the back, which is kept moist by secretions passing along the many grooves. 🧪

A photograph of a pair of slugs on a decaying log. One is orange and the other is green, but both have distinct venation on their back, similar to the veins of a leaf.

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