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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It looks like it's World Lizard Day so here are a few of my favorites.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🚨GLOVES OFF🚨 Tim and his ex duke it out on air. InfoWarriors, it's time to weigh in: who deserves that horse?

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Marvel "What If...?" #44 (1984)... Steve Rogers wasn't found so they replaced him with a fake Captain America who was essentially a government over people authority figure for an America that had slipped into extreme far right over the decades... only for the real Cap to wake up in 1984...

"Listen to me -- all of you out there! You were told by this man -- your hero -- that America is the greatest country in the world!

He told you that Americans were the greatest people -- that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was -- how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America!

Well, I say America is nothing!! Without its ideals -- its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash!

A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing!

And the only reason you're not less then nothing -- -- is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!"

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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hell Creek scouting time! Are these funny looking rocks fragments of a T. rex? Triceratops? Probably just remnants of a Chunkasaurus like usual.

Jack Sparrow licks a rock like a paleontologist is supposed to do. Still doesn’t help him decide if it’s bone or not

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 09/06/2026

We only rate dogs. This is a whirlpool. Please don't get too close. It is quite powerful. Still 13/10 (IG: goldenbabybasil)

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 08/06/2026

AMAZING—a condor flew into Oregon for the first time in 120 years! The critical conservation efforts I’ve supported are working to protect these amazing, endangered birds. I can’t wait to see more condors soar.

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Condor flies into Oregon for first time in over 120 years

A 2-year-old female condor named B9 traveled 80 miles through southern Oregon during a four-day journey in May, marking a historic milestone for the critically endangered species managed by the Yurok ...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Apparently it’s World Crocodile Day today, too! Here’s an Osteolaemus, it may look like an alligator but it is, indeed, very much a crocodile.

A Dwarf Crocodile, presumably Osteolaemus tetraspis but I am not sure since the genus has been split into 3 additional species since this was taken. This is a small species of crocodilian, one of the smallest. It subsists on fish, aquatic invertebrates, and small land animals and birds it is able to ambush.

Photo taken at Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland.

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Here's a great example of how farmers and ranchers that control the land, care about the land. youtube.com/shorts/0FhGV...

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#regenag #ag #cowgirl #cattle #aussie

YouTube video by Brownhatt

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

American and European doves/pigeons look pretty until you look at absolutely every other continent's doves.

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Happy 58th birthday to Lucy Lawless, who has always understood the assignment.

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Pumpkin Spice Potion 🔞 @smallpotion.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I promise I won't spam pictures of my trip to Seattle but I really wanted to share this cool video I caught of the bowmouth guitarfish.

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"The person who can cook well never starves" is a quote I am claiming. It's been the case in my least moments but apparently it's not a real saying. It is now. Also teach your kids to cook, it's a basic life skill. They don't have to great at it, but better than directions on the box cooks

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Some Friday Funk for anyone who needs it. This goes hard no matter what kind of music you like. youtu.be/oTu_7DqjKw0?...

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MOON ZOOZ (Too Many Zooz + Moon Hooch) - “Space Cow” [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Too Many Zooz

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Too much reading the news today. Let's see if this helps change gears in my head

Cover for Away, a movie from 2019. Shown is an animated image of a very young man on a motorcycle with a handful of white doves around him

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Incredible story of a real hero Enjoy 👇🏻❤️👇🏻

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

There's so much research to be done that one motivated person with a moderate amount of funding can discover an amazing amount of new species without leaving far from home by looking for differences in individuals of species we already know that aren't actually just one species.

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Just learned that not only did it line up that Mardi Gras and Lunar New Year are both today, but it's also the beginning of Ramadan and something called Juggalo day... happy whichever you are celebrating today

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/02/2026

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Woohoo! A small win for native fish. I hope this takes root and spreads to other states. I've seen far too many people claim native species as something they thought was invasive and needed to be eradicated. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Once considered 'junk,' native rough fish soon could see new catch limits, protections

For more than a century, native rough fish like redhorse, bowfin and buffalo were lumped in with invasive species like common carp — and not considered worthy of protection or management. But there’s ...

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Random Snake Facts @randomfacts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

#poem #poetry #writing Spitting red cobras are red Malaysian coral snakes are blue They're both highly venomous Now, here's some matching cakes for you! #snakes #cakes #reptiles 🤪🐍🍰😂

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Bill Rulon-Miller @reptiledude.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It’s also apparently Rattlesnake Appreciation Day again so here is a photo sequence over two months of a gravid Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, from earlier in gestation to postpartum. Rattlesnakes, like most vipers, are ovoviviparous with eggs hatching in the mother who then births the young

A gravid female rattlesnake camouflaged in foliage. Her chevrons make her standout. She is missing a small part of her snout possibly from infection or failed predation.

A closer look at the same gravid female rattlesnake camouflaged in a different part of her mound. She is noticeably larger as the young develop within her.

Another angle of the same female Timber Rattlesnake. She is a bit easier to see. She had the classic yellow-green “Pinebrake” phenotype exhibited by New Jersey rattlesnakes.

A photo of the now mother Timber Rattlesnake shortly after birthing her large litter. She and the babies stayed together for about a week and a half to two weeks, which is fairly typical. Then all of them except two or three of the neonates dispersed into the Pine Barrens

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A little taxonomy trivia for you... Penguins have been extinct for over 150 years. What we call Penguins are based on an animal that no longer exists

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Please enjoy a break with like, 100 gar; if you need one👍 Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I'm not much of a bird person but the New Zealand parrots, like the Kakapo, fascinate me. They are up there with the Ratites as my favorite birds.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#25DaysofFishmas Day 13 brings us a fish that shines like B-E-A-UTIFUL holiday lights! 🌟 Our road trip takes us to the deserts of southern Arizona + New Mexico to find the Beautiful Shiner (Cyprinella formosa), a small, threatened species that was briefly lost from the US but has been reintroduced

The #25DaysofFishmas calendar with the beautiful shiner on December 13

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Gertie @maufie.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Eastern water skink - all creatures great and small. #nature #wildlife

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Good morning ☕️

A pie chart of galaxies with three slices. The smallest says "stuff you know," a slightly larger one says, "stuff you know you don't know," and the large majority is full of stars and says, "stuff you don't know you don't know."

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Grottan @grottan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

One of my favorite places... I can't recommend it enough if someone likes a little nature time or has kids. It's right by Texas State in San Marcos, and it's free. I am sharing because it's garweek and this is my spot I'd pick to see gar in the wild. #garweek #sanmarcos youtu.be/1eP7qSRgRqo?...

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Wetlands Boardwalk || Exploring San Marcos, Texas

YouTube video by I Love the ATX

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