Here’s a common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus) licking its eye clean in Little Desert last night. Legless lizards are awesome.

What I currently spend half my time studying! Fighting cane toads with cane toads.

www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/11...?

I will post here various photos of #Heckcattle from the Neandertal-Museum in Mettman which I recently visited. This lineage has some #Watussi cattle ancestry, what resulted into some specimens with particularly spectacular #aurochs alike horns, even among the cows (as those in the photos below).

When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses.

But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.

Blue-Footed Boobies and the magic poo ring.

Blue-footed Boobies nest in a simple scrape on the ground. Guides told us that the Booby, while shading their eggs from the harsh sun, turn to face the sun throughout the day, and that's why there is a ring of poo around the nest. 🧵