If you scratch a Galapagos tortoise on the chin it will extend its neck and legs and often close its eyes, a set of responses called "finching" because it allows finches to land and pick off ticks that might be hidden inside skin folds. #galapagos #tortoise #finches #finching #philadelphia #zoo #birds #parasites #ticks #biology #reptiles
If you scratch a Galapagos tortoise on the chin it will extend its neck and legs and often close its eyes, a set of responses called "finching" because it allows finches to land and pick off ticks that might be hidden inside skin folds. #galapagos #tortoise #finches #finching #philadelphia #zoo #birds #parasites #ticks #biology #reptiles
Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi, etc. If you want a general Fediverse home, that’s okay too.
This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters, and has been operating since 2022.
You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin @a
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Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi, etc. If you want a general Fediverse home, that’s okay too.
This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters, and has been operating since 2022.
You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin @a
#FeaturedServer#Arthropods#Amphibians#Reptiles#Fungi#Hometown#Mastodon#HometownMastodon #Fediverse#FreeFediverse
Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler
Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670
#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler
Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler
Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670
#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler
A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Each chapter helps to reveal a unique narrative of the grand cycle of life, based on extraordinary evidence of behaviours written in the rocks.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#SciArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology#Fossils#JurassicWorld#JurassicWorldRebirth
A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Each chapter helps to reveal a unique narrative of the grand cycle of life, based on extraordinary evidence of behaviours written in the rocks.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#SciArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology#Fossils#JurassicWorld#JurassicWorldRebirth
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A Psittacosaurus creche (fossils show these babies lived in groups possibly with an adult carer), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Reptiles #Palaeontology#Paleontology#Psittacosaurus#JurassicPark#JurassicWorld#CampCretaceous#WildlifeArt
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