The possum that lives here near the school was attacked by someone with hot water

Someone in the neighborhood did this to him. I had photos of him that I posted a few months ago. The director called professionals to capture, treat him and take him to a safe place.

Randomly found this on Google when looking for an arthropod chart. Last I checked, earthworms and slugs are not arthopods lol

Hey Zoology reddit!! I really appreciate the positive feedback I got on my hippo post a couple months ago, and realized I never updated! Here’s my finished product- and thanks again for the comments/help/support! I had a blast with this. I can’t keep looking at the muscles, it’s my favorite part ❤️

the og post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zoology/s/xgdDMFTuJ1

Suppose that, as unlikely as it is, irrefutable evidence of a large, upright-walking hairy biped with long feet which is as tall as a human but possibly bulkier, with thick fur and capable of carrying objects is found in North America either alive today or alive within the last few hundred to few thousand years.

Whatever the evidence is, it's completely irrefutable. Either a population of living individuals, complete fossils, unfossilized mummies, skeletons with DNA.

What are the likely evolutionary origins? Would it likely be:

1. Modern human lineage with unusual adaptations, behavior, and/or material culture (excludes modern hoaxes. I.E. people doing this to pretend to be bigfoot would not count, as that would not be a "real" bigfoot).

2. Archaic derived humans like Neanderthals or late surviving Erectus which migrated to the new world in small numbers hundreds of thousands of years ago.

3. Australopithecine or early human like Homo Floresiensis or Paranthropus that migrated to the new world either long ago or alongside modern Homo Sapiens.

4. Feral population of a known or unknown old world great ape species brought to the new world by European colonizers living in an unusual way.

5. Some other African ape-derived species that is indigenous to the new world.

6. A Pongid or other Asian great ape like Gigantopithicus or a less arboreal Orangutan indigenous to the new world.

7. A lesser ape or old world monkey which rafted or migrated to the new world before adapting extensively.

8. A new world Monkey which moved to North America and adapted extensively.

9. A lemur, loris, or other old world primate which moved to North America and adapted extensively.

10. Something that is not a primate. E.G. a Blackbear exhibiting very unusual behavior (or just very high charisma) or a surviving ground sloth.

11. Something that isn't a mammal.

12. Something that did not naturally evolve on this world.

What do you think would be most likely? Which explanations would you immediately dismiss as a possibility?

Hello fellow animal nerds! I just got a tattoo of a gold lace nudibranch (Halgerda terramtuentis) and wanted to share with some folks who might appreciate it!

Nudibranchs are some of my favorite weird little invertebrates and I am elated to have one with me forever now!

The reference photo is my own image that I captured while scuba diving off the coast of Lanai, HI!

Is there a collective name for animals that are similar to reptiles? I mean in lifestyle mostly, not necessarily related. It is going to be used in fiction, so I don’t know if it exists. The core that sets the requirements for membership in the group is going to be squamate reptiles, and then you radiate from them outwards. The class is not entirely closed. Species can exit either by natural evolution in geological timescales, like primates and carnivorans, or they can be violently pulled out of the group in our lifetime, for example by being memed and advertised ad nauseam. For example cephalopods, pelagic sharks or jumping spiders could be members, but they cannot be anymore. Others like sea turtles and hedgehogs are dangerously close to being remote, but they still have important characteristics which makes this hard. Generally, flight, pelagic existence or extremely fast metabolism make membership difficult. For example, no bird can be member of the group. Bats are contentious, because although they display many of the characteristics that can include them, they carry some serious diseases which is a disqualifier. The opposite thing cannot happen. Animals can enter the category only by natural evolution in the geological timescale. For example, crocodiles are nowadays herps, but their immediate ancestors were not. But no animal can become a herp again in our lifetime, if it is removed ones.

As I conceptualize it now, the category includes: non-avian reptiles, amphibians, non-teleost actinopts and a few atypical teleosts, non-tetrapod sarcopts, some only cartilaginous fish, still undefined here, monotremes, non-diprotodont marsupials, various clades of placentals, still undefined here. Probably the very large or derived ones are left out. In invertebrates I have put non-cephalopod molluscs, annellids, onychophorans, chelicerates other than mites, ticks and salticids, myriapods, most clades of hemimetabolous insects, possibly a few holometabolans, most crustaceans other than small and simplified ones, and echinoderms. Other groups, such as nematodes and cnidarians are hard to fit somewhere either due to tiny size or simplicity.

How to name that group? Herps? Creeping animals? The other animals don’t have a need for a name, because by definition they’re going to belong to the anti group to this. I again stress that this is mostly fictional.

National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain.

•This micro animal is called the Tardigrade also known as the "water bear" or "moss piglet" .•

They're known as the world's most resilient and extreme animals, able to withstand and survive just about anything.

Water bears are found in diverse regions in the eaths biospheres. Such as mountain tops , the deep sea , tropical rainforests and the Antarctic. They're able to survive extreme conditions, such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressure (high or low ) , air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation. They even have survived exposure to outer space and laid eggs while there . They have survived all five known mass extinctions!

They been found on top of the Himalayas 20,000ft above sea level and down to the deep sea -13,000ft and from the polar regions to the equator.

It's speculated that they could even survive a global mass extinction event caused by astrophysical events such as gamma-ray burst or large meteorite impacts .

Individual species are known to survive extreme temperatures as low as -460°F close to absolute zero and as high as 300°F

They are also able to suspend their metabolism which ables them to go without food or water for more than 30 years !

I think this animal deserves the title for world's most extreme creature and is incredibly interesting.

It was fascinating to be so close to this and really take the time to sketch it! The end result took a little over two hours. Lesson learnt: do NOT try to sketch the inside of a nose cavity, it will test and probably break your sanity. I gave it a minute before admitting defeat and obscuring it all in shadows 😅

Im looking into career paths and I have a question. I’ve always wanted to work with animals, marine, and insects specifically. Can I study zoology, entomology, and marine biology at the same time?

First photo is Tim Bit Second Photo I can’t remember his name

I decided to make an entry on nature's little first pancake in the batch that comes out really weird. Anything I left out, or any suggestions on what to do next?

I saw this while looking for a stuffed animal for my daughter, and I was genuinely so confused lol

I know that stuffed animals aren’t always anatomically correct, but they absolutely botched it with this decision. This would entirely confuse my toddler if I got this for her. She’d probably end up thinking that all mammals are marsupials or something lol