we just keep naming bugs like this

Slender Whip Snake (Platyceps najadum), family Colubridae, Samothraki Island, Greece

Photograph by Doru Panaitescu

Bazaruto Blind Legless Skink (Acontias aurantiacus bazarutoensis), family Scincidae, Benguera Island, Mozambique

Subspecies of Golden Bling Legless Skink.

Legless lizard

photograph by Johan Marais

Calabar Python (Calabaria reinhardtii), family Boidae, found in West and central Africa

Though it is referred to as a python, this snake is actually in the Boa family.

photographs by Dick Bartlett

hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

Dinocephalosaurus, a strange, viviparous reptile from the Triassic, gives live birth in the shallows.

2/12 Today Soup-Nose The Goat attempted to climb through the new gate into the sheep pasture. Her escape attempt was foiled by the devastatingly brilliant scheme of The Gate Is Open, Soup-Nose.

When she tried to back out of the gate, she kept catching it on her horns and pulling it toward herself, until eventually she pressed herself tightly between the gate and the fence and had to be rescued.

The center cannot hold. One day the sun will swell and devour the earth, and there will be no sea. One day, there will be nobody left who remembers the taste of noodles. One day entropy will squeeze out the stars and all will be still and lukewarm. The bells can never be unrung. But remember this: once, just once, a goat was prevented from escaping a fence. And nothing will have been in vain.

carpenter ant mimicking spider just wants to help ^_^

(ant...? comm for @pitofsquids )

Minor Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus minor), male in full breeding colors, family Phrynosomatidae, Mexico

photograph by Sergio Terán-Natural

California Red-sided Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis), family Colubridae, found in California, USA

Photograph by Tim Spuckler

Suwannee Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis), family Chelydridae, endemic to the Suwannee River Basin of northern FL and southern GA in the SE United States.

ENDANGERED.

A species closely related to the Alligator Snapping Turtle (both in the genus Macrochelys).

photograph by Chris Coppola

Paradise Flying Snakes (Chrysopelea paradisi), mating, family Colubridae, Tapah, Malaysia

Mildly venomous.

This arboreal snake is capable of gliding from tree to tree, by flattening their bodies, and flinging themselves through the air.

photograph by Francis Seow Choen

Isthmian Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus rhombifer), juvenile, family Anguidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Cesar Barrio Amorós

Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), swimming, family Viperidae, North TX, USA

Venomous.

photographs by Jimmy Martin 

Banded Sea Krait aka Yellow-lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda colubrina), family Elapidae, South Pacific

Venomous.

photograph by Giordano Cipriani