#nature is metal

[wayward-delver]

You can feel the power of a Bull Hippo just watching this, the most dangerous mammal in the world.

They aren’t fat at all, that’s all pure muscle! They cannot float, they just run along the bottom of the water!

#animals #nature #videos #scary #hippopotamus #hippos #animal facts #natural history #hippo #ungulate #mammal #animal #beasts #video #nature is metal #wildlife

[indeedgoodman]

#jungle #wild #prey #predator #cheetah #leapord #lion #wolf #coyote #jaguar #cat #big cat #hunter #hunted #nature is metal #indeedgoodman

[viraisgone]

giant african millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas)

#darkcore #dullcore #goth #gothic #nature is metal #not mine #goth aesthetic #dark #giant african millipede #i just love bugs man

[spaghettiwoman46]

Beautiful photo showing 6 eggs at once. It is truly an amazing encapsulation of the beauty of nature

#nature #nature is metal #nature is amazing #i am rock hard right now #egg

[creepyfreak00]

TW- Dead Animal

My boyfriend and I went on a night walk and we found them in the middle of the road. They were absolutely picked apart. I wish I could’ve taken it but roadkill collection is illegal in Texas >:P

#vulture culture #roadkill #nature is metal #dead things

[newtsfrogstoads]

Hi friend,

What’s a caecilian?

I know I could Google it but I feel like we’d all get more joy out of my asking you.

Happy to answer! Imagine a worm and a snake made sweet squirmy love and had a child. That's basically what a caecilian is:

From the worm parent, they inherited blindness and a segmented body, as a well as a knack for diving into the mud and shallow water.

From the snake parent, they inherited a bullet-shaped snout, a left lung smaller than their right lung, and a penchant for eating bugs, slugs, snails, and worms (this makes family dinners very awkward).

Caecilians also tend to swim like eels and have chemosensory tentacles near the front of their heads like hagfish. It's possible that the worm and the snake wanted to spice things up in the bedroom and invited some of their other legless friends, but scientists have yet to prove this (cowards).

In terms of looks, Caecilians tend to appear very derpy from the side:

When viewed head-on though, they tend to resemble people who were asked to smile at a camera but didn't have enough time to mentally or physically prepare:

Finally, while there are many poisonous amphibians in the world, there are very few that are venomous (exceptions include tree frogs that inject venom via headbutting with skull spikes, and newts that ram their own ribs through their coated skin to make toxic spikes).

The Brazilian Ringed Caecilian seems to have venomous glands that coat their teeth to deliver a deadly bite like that of a gila monster, but scientists are still studying this. Regardless, don't get bit by one cause some caecillians really look like the chestburster from Alien:

Other cool caecilian facts:

Different species can be as small as 8.9cm (3.5in) to as large as 1.5m (5 ft) but caecilians know that size doesn't matter anyway

Caecilians are one of the three groups that make up all amphibians - the other two being frogs and salamanders

Baby Ringed Caecilians have 44 spoon-shaped teeth and will eat their mom's outer layer of skin for several minutes then take a break for a few days to allow their mom's skin to regrow before chowing down on it again yum yum

#amphibians #caecilian #nature is metal #channeled my inner ze frank for this #asks I answer at 2am instead of sleeping #animals

[orofeaiel]

Red Juice Tooth (Hydnellum peckii)

#artists on tumblr #original photography #original photographers #pacific northwest #hiking #nikon #nature #washington #pnw #orofeaiel #mycology #mushrooms #fungus among us #red juice tooth #bleeding #blood #goblincore #nature is metal #vampire #Hydnellum peckii

[whereifindsanity]

Neville Jones

#nature is metal

[tight-frame]

#nature is metal

[glassofb33r]

Out the other side.

#dark fantasy art #animal art #snail art #giant african land snail #death metal art #surrealism #nature is metal

[necrohag]

One pissed off cock painting for my mentor in the shop’s annual holiday art trade 🪶

#my art #nature is metal #rooster #tattoo painting #tattoo flash #tattoo apprentice

[new-berry]

I have a plea sort of rant about VAR and the super league let me soothe you with an NZ Christmas tree first.

Off the car park by the coffee shop.

#trees man #nature is metal #spring here

[indeedgoodman]

#massive #nature #nature is metal #animal kingdom #snakes #reptiles #sneks #big snake #giant snake #regurgitation #anaconda

[viraisgone]

fire snail (Platymma tweediei)

#gothic #nature is metal #goth #dullcore #darkcore #snail #animals #not mine

[battlestariroh]

Today on “life imitates art”:

[screenshot of a tweet saying “If you get bitten by a shark, bite it back. You’ll still probably die but the shark will be like ‘lol what’” next to a real BBC report entitled “Australian farmer Colin Devereaux survives crocodile attack by biting back”]

#crocodile #shark #shark week #crocodile dundee #steve irwin #nature is metal #archer fx #sterling archer #after a while

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

I am terrible at arthropod IDs, so if someone knows who this spider is please let me know. They were eating a bee – the bee, unfortunately, was still very much alive. When I first came across them (very helpfully for spooky vibes spider had stretched their web right in front of a pumpkin someone had set out) the bee had probably only very recently been captured. I love bees, so atching the spider hunt and feed on one was pretty disturbing.

#tw spiders #spiders #arachnids #predation #nature is metal #digital photography #sonya7r4 #sonya7riv #photographers on tumblr #photography #color photography #photographers of tumblr #original photography #arthropods #tw animal death