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🪷 longisquama 🦎
@lotuslizard.bsky.social
🦎 zoology, meteorology, environmental science, nature conservation

🪷 artist, model, writer, gamer, entertainer, angler, swimmer, music lover, witch, AuDHD, LGBTQIA

🌎 21+ years as a midwestern lifeform.

🔞 MDNI

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🦎 reptile enthusiast
👙 swimmer
☀️ lover of warm weather
🍄‍🟫 fae-core
🔮 beginner witch, learning the basics of herbs
🏳️‍🌈 queer, intersex, nonbinary, sapphic
🖤 taken by a tall, strong, goth lady
🎮 gamer (albeit not a very good one)
🎨 artist; illustrator and painter
🗡️ my comic ~>
@cloudwing.bsky.social
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For #FrogFriday, another cool #MesoamericanBallgame piece seen at @explorenoma.bsky.social :
Stone #Frog Yoke
Veracruz Culture, Gulf Coast Mexico, c. 600-900 CE
NOMA 2001. 338
#MesoamericanArt #IndigenousArt
#HSS2025
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Focus on a bullfrog ... but which one? #Herps
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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In this episode, Dr. Jenkins sits down with Stan Lake to discuss his new book, Toad in a Glass Jar. Their conversation follows two intertwining paths — Stan’s experiences serving in the Army in Iraq and his life as a naturalist and content creator passionate about reptiles and amphibians.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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"Who goes there?"
I met this little guy while watering my potted plants last summer. He was NOT happy with my attempts to take his picture.

There, there, lil'buddy, I am duly impressed by your size and attitude.
#DefenseMechanism #Herps #Toads #Amphibians #Animals #GardenFriend #SciArt #PhotoHour
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Slime cocktail 🐸
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I'll have these and 2 other bundles available during backerkit holiday market they're doing!

Its all instock items so they'll ship in time for the holidays 🐸✨

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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It's Fossil Fighters Friday! Mega awesome!

Today's Vivosaur is no. 012, Megalo! 🦖🦎
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Don't be alarmed but Dennis has turned green again 🐸
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I had nothing to do with this. It's been over a year since I've been to Boston, and I'd never leave an 🐊 friend behind.

#herps

www.wral.com/news/ap/e60b...
Small alligator rescued in Boston after slithering into the city's heart on social media
BOSTON (AP) — It wasn’t a croc — there really was an alligator on the loose in Boston.
www.wral.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My post from this morning was so drab I wanted to post something colorful. This small Five-lined Skink was one of the most colorful ones I have seen. 🦎
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Asked Sergeant Colon what he was up to. He said he was just hanging around. 🐍

#herp #ballpythonsofbluesky
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Summoning turtle and tortoise keepers of Bluesky!

I’m doing an article for Reptiles about popular small breeds of turtles of tortoises. If you have one, what’s their care and interaction like? How big do they actually get? 🐢
a turtle is eating a strawberry on a wooden floor .
Alt: A baby tortoise eating a strawberry on a wooden floor
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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There are just so many of these little guys in our yard.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Might upload more older photos and art until I'm up to getting to new stuff again. This is Godzilla - I mean another marine iguana from my Galapagos trip. #herps #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #animals #reptiles #wildlife #nature #photography
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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It’s raining! C’mon amphibians, it’s time to get surveying!

If you’re confused, know that this male California toad is too. He’s trying to mate with another male Cali toad that was the victim of a bird attack. 🥴. #herps
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Dr. Alex Krohn @krohnzone.bsky.social and I had a fascinating discussion with Dr. Alexandra Martin - @alliemartin.bsky.social, co-author on a paper with astounding data supporting the idea that some anole species are able to breathe underwater, in a novel way. www.somuchpingle.com #herps #lizards 🌿
Episode 121: Herp Science Sunday: Bubble-breathing Anoles - So Much Pingle
I'm so happy to produce another Herp Science Sunday segment with Dr. Alex Krohn! In this episode we talk with Dr. Alexandra Martin, one of the co-authors of a brand new paper, which lays out some asto...
www.somuchpingle.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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have you ever wanted extremely high quality footage of a monitor lizard close up

well look no further i have one for you it was really bright outside and i was sweating #herps

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2_...
monitor linzer
YouTube video by ZIGLUDO-CHAN-SAN-SAMA-SENPAI-SAN-SAMA-SAN-SENPAI-CHAN
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Last frog sighting of the season?
#FrogFriday #Herps #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱🐸
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🦎Green anole (Anolis carolinensis).

Max. size 20.3 cm (8"), Males tend to be slightly larger than females.

Found in the southeastern USA. Has been introduced around the Pacific, in the Caribbean, in Mexico and in California.

Considered Least concern by the IUCN.

📷by Ray_Shrewsberry on Pixabay
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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is someone there..? 🦎
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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And one more, there was an iguana party on Key West this morning 🦎🌿
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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The first turtle hatchling I ever saw. Now I volunteer to protect their nests. Thinking about her leaving her egg in the sand and heading into the infinite ocean makes my heart implode. On her own. Where does she go? How does she know anything? 🦑 #turtle #babyanimals #endangeredspecies #love #herps
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The only native anole species in the US, Anolis carolinensis! I haven't actually caught carolinensis since I was a kid visiting the Florida Everglades with my parents, so it's been a minute!

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November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Miss Penny coming out to drink her favorite way and finger painting in the fresh water spray on the side of her habitat and wondering why no one has turned on her Caribbean Detective Stories so she can watch! #herps #lizardsofbluesky #geckos #reptiles #lizards #gargoylegeckos
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM