Another "like a tribal tattoo" #drawing... #lizard this time. Planned to draw it more like these clay figurines decorated with coloured glass shards available in souvenir shops :blobcatjoy:
Yesterday on my sunday stroll in the city I came by a small wall with lots of flowers growing out of gaps in the wall.
Suddenly I spotted something moving, it was a #lizard ( #lacertidae ). With a quick movement, the lizard suddenly grabbed a bee that was collecting nectar on a flower.
Fortunately, the lizard was startled when it noticed me, so I was able to take a photo of it with my smartphone.
I was quite surprised when I noticed this iOS detail.
When you look at a photo in your gallery there's a button for Visual Look Up that is an "i" in a circle with sparkles when it can identify what's in the photo.
I noticed when I was viewing a photo of a lizard that the button changed to a lizard in a circle with sparkles! 🤯🦎✨
I used to love this game that AfroHerper played on ExTwitter, so here's my version of it from the recent Mexico biodiversity cataloging expedition.
There is a Ditmars horned lizard ("horny toad") in this photo. It's the one I found and the first of only two found on the trip. It's a juvenile about 3" long.
If you see it, don't spill the beans! I'm hitting the road soon, but will give the answer tomorrow or tonight.
BTW, it's not hidden in the watermark or anything sneaky like that. They are just really hard to spot on the ground until they move.
Ranger Sarah has arrived at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska. Known for a large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils. Fossils from the Harrison Formation and Anderson Ranch Formation, which date to the Arikareean in the North American land mammal classification, about 20 to 16.3 million years ago, are among some of the best specimens of Miocene mammals.
Ranger Sarah has spotted a short-horned lizard, sometimes called the horny toad. Can you see it, it blends in perfectly with the rocks behind it. This little guy is commonly sited around the rocks near the Fossil Hills trail. Short-horned lizards are between two and six inches long with pointy spines on their head and body.
I bet one of you will please be able to tell me, what is this part of a reptile's anatomy called? And what is it, a flap of skin, a blood vessel, something else?
Original image credit Dakota L.CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_collared_lizard#/media/File:Common_Collared_Lizard.jpg
I’m pretty sure these are just our regular alligator lizards here in So. California but have never seen one so dark before. Anyone know why or if it’s a different breed? Thanks #lizard#lizardsofmastedon#lizards