I wanna see a wild gila monster so bad!!! I think the one at the desert museum was hiding when I was there.

I want to see a wild wolf so baddddd Honshu rewilding agenda come thru

You've never seen musasabi?! They look like a flung newspaper with retroreflective eyes.

"Too bad I can't bring any of those bones back east with me, wonder what that cat piss smell is." It was indeed a cat.

The mountain lion was more dramatic because I was climbing a rockface but less notable because it was dusk and saw it for about 0.5 second at close range before we both NOPE'd, I mostly remember dangling by my forearm.

I spent elementary school in South Florida where sea turtles nest but had only seen loggerhead and hawksbill sea turtles, which are wayyyyy smaller and less primeval-looking, esp hauled out on the beach. I didn't even know sea turtles went north of the tropics.

The captain called it in to the Coast Guard, we were only 10 or 15 miles from Wood's Hole so I would assume someone from NOAA got there in time to help.

The sea turtle was the most unforgettable one. My middle school's sixth grade trip was a weeklong cruise on a tall ship and I spotted it entangled and drowning, just the one flipper up in the air. I thought it was the dorsal fin of the biggest shark I had ever seen, taller than a human torso.

Little elementary-schooler Tatsu apparently wanted to be a girl since reading volume 1 of "Gestalt" in like. 1995. That's so long. How do you live.

It's the DIY-related karoshi, I hope to recover by spring x_x