Outside the major metropolitan areas, a huge swath of the eastern United States looks like this. The eastern deciduous forest ecosystem is truly vast.
Late-blooming Crinum ‘Infusion’ on a misty moisty morning. Flowers are enormous, highly fragrant, and apparently delicious if you are a hungry katydid. 🌱
My impression from The Hobbit is that the eagles probably eat orcs and wargs. Doubt they’d be too excited about reducing their prey population—what are the odds that after the war of the ring they were reduced to picking off pack ponies and dwarves in trading caravans.
A skink that doesn’t seem to be interested in skinking. Looks more like a tuatara or something.
What? No, that bone was always exposed. Only leftists care about intact cheeks.
Finding an undescribed species in your living room is pretty much every natural history nerd’s dream.
This is such a fun story! An ecologist in Wales found a striking moth flitting around her living room. After posting a picture of it on instagram, someone realised it was super unusual and it turned out they were right - it's a new species native to Guyana 😅🧪🦋 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
