Pretty Spooky Things 🎃
@prettyuglythings.bsky.social
Amateur naturalist, serious collector, and appreciator of the unusual things our planet is capable of… based out of Tucson!
Purveyor of minerals, succulents, isopods, and information
https://prettyuglythingsaz.com // https://prettyuglythingsaz.etsy.com
Purveyor of minerals, succulents, isopods, and information
https://prettyuglythingsaz.com // https://prettyuglythingsaz.etsy.com
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
Climate change isn’t real, it’s normal for my orange tree to be blooming in *checks notes* the middle of November 👍
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Climate change isn’t real, it’s normal for my orange tree to be blooming in *checks notes* the middle of November 👍
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Moqui marbles - concretions from the Navajo Sandstone in Utah (images created from a photo taken in the field) 🧪⚒️
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Moqui marbles - concretions from the Navajo Sandstone in Utah (images created from a photo taken in the field) 🧪⚒️
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318 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Scheelite:
- A calcium tungstate mineral
- An important ore of tungsten
- Forms during contact metamorphism and in hydrothermal veins
- Named after Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a Swedish chemist #minerals
Scheelite:
- A calcium tungstate mineral
- An important ore of tungsten
- Forms during contact metamorphism and in hydrothermal veins
- Named after Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a Swedish chemist #minerals
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
318 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Scheelite:
- A calcium tungstate mineral
- An important ore of tungsten
- Forms during contact metamorphism and in hydrothermal veins
- Named after Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a Swedish chemist #minerals
Scheelite:
- A calcium tungstate mineral
- An important ore of tungsten
- Forms during contact metamorphism and in hydrothermal veins
- Named after Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a Swedish chemist #minerals
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Ant after tornado (ready for test assembly before patina/polish) 🛠️
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Ant after tornado (ready for test assembly before patina/polish) 🛠️
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I don’t think people really understand when I say Giant Isopods can gorge themselves on a meal. Look at how much the stomach of this small male is extended from snacking on raw chicken in my trap.
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I don’t think people really understand when I say Giant Isopods can gorge themselves on a meal. Look at how much the stomach of this small male is extended from snacking on raw chicken in my trap.
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becoming this lady but for anti-gambling
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
becoming this lady but for anti-gambling
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Truer than you realize (and this one is pumpkin colored lol)
the way they look when mate guarding is hilarious:
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November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Truer than you realize (and this one is pumpkin colored lol)
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For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
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Nice to hear a wildlife conservation success story.
Over 7,000 ‘glow-in-the-dark' snails have been reintroduced to their French Polynesian island home as part of a zoo breeding programme to save them from extinction.
Over 7,000 ‘glow-in-the-dark' snails have been reintroduced to their French Polynesian island home as part of a zoo breeding programme to save them from extinction.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Nice to hear a wildlife conservation success story.
Over 7,000 ‘glow-in-the-dark' snails have been reintroduced to their French Polynesian island home as part of a zoo breeding programme to save them from extinction.
Over 7,000 ‘glow-in-the-dark' snails have been reintroduced to their French Polynesian island home as part of a zoo breeding programme to save them from extinction.
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310 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Pyrolusite:
- Mineral form of manganese dioxide
- A very common manganese mineral
- An important manganese ore
- Used as a pigment in ancient cave paintings
- Forms in oxidised manganese-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
Pyrolusite:
- Mineral form of manganese dioxide
- A very common manganese mineral
- An important manganese ore
- Used as a pigment in ancient cave paintings
- Forms in oxidised manganese-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
310 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Pyrolusite:
- Mineral form of manganese dioxide
- A very common manganese mineral
- An important manganese ore
- Used as a pigment in ancient cave paintings
- Forms in oxidised manganese-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
Pyrolusite:
- Mineral form of manganese dioxide
- A very common manganese mineral
- An important manganese ore
- Used as a pigment in ancient cave paintings
- Forms in oxidised manganese-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
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“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”
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November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The metamorphic mineral staurolite with its distinctive penetration twinning forming a cross. It’s positively delightful!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The metamorphic mineral staurolite with its distinctive penetration twinning forming a cross. It’s positively delightful!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪
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we're snailposting, post your snails
Do you ever just stop and take a moment to think just how weird it is that we live on the same planet as snails?
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
we're snailposting, post your snails
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Isn't lichen brilliant?
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Isn't lichen brilliant?
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The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
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Biomineralization is so cool!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
How one of the world’s rarest and most valuable gemstones gets its vivid colors
Scientists finally solve mystery of ammolite’s brilliant reds, greens, and blues
www.science.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Biomineralization is so cool!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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it is DONE my dudes, 32 goobers for #Invertober2025
now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH
#SciArt #invertebrates
now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH
#SciArt #invertebrates
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
it is DONE my dudes, 32 goobers for #Invertober2025
now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH
#SciArt #invertebrates
now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH
#SciArt #invertebrates
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302 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
302 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
The passion flower variety Passiflora foetida is native to the US southwest. It is typically only open for a few hours, closing before the heat of the day. This is the first flower I’ve spotted on my vine!
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The passion flower variety Passiflora foetida is native to the US southwest. It is typically only open for a few hours, closing before the heat of the day. This is the first flower I’ve spotted on my vine!
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THIS year we did cupcakes again. Matt mostly did these. I helped some but I had to go get work done in me office so I didn't see the final product until this morning. they're so good ahahaha there is blood icing inside the cockroach that oozes out when you bite into em
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
THIS year we did cupcakes again. Matt mostly did these. I helped some but I had to go get work done in me office so I didn't see the final product until this morning. they're so good ahahaha there is blood icing inside the cockroach that oozes out when you bite into em
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"There is Death in the Pot" — front cover for an early 19th-century book on culinary poisoning. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-treatise-on-adulteration-of-food-and-culinary-poisons-1820?utm_content=buffer71cce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"There is Death in the Pot" — front cover for an early 19th-century book on culinary poisoning. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-treatise-on-adulteration-of-food-and-culinary-poisons-1820?utm_content=buffer71cce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer