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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 5, 2019 21:12:47 GMT 5
I've recently gotten in the habit of taking photos of natural history-related things such as bones, preserved specimens, and wildlife I happen to come across. So I've decided to make a thread where you can post your own photos of the aforementioned things. I'll start this thread off. Below are two shots of an empty cicada carapace.   |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 6, 2019 0:01:35 GMT 5
A praying mantis on a window of my college's gym.  And another one on some plants we're growing on the back porch.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 30, 2019 22:45:57 GMT 5
I went to work in a biology lab for something due later and found some skeletonized cat limbs with claws on them stored in a box. They were not all the same specimen (given that there were >2 forelimbs and >2 hindlimbs). First are the manual claws. I hope you can notice how laterally compressed they are (it was hard to take photos of the ventral surface with my phone since they were bolted onto wooden boards), and certainly how hooked and sharp at the tip they are. Now look at the pedal claws. Notice how the claws are less recurved, thicker (again, hope you can see this well, as it was hard to take ventral shots), and less finely pointed at the tip. I remember a very old remark that the hindfoot claws of cats are blunter than those of the forefeet, even going as far as to call them more like the claws of a dog than the familiar sharp claws of cats ( link->). This seems to be more or less corroborated by the photos I have here. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 20, 2019 1:40:27 GMT 5
Can anyone help me identify what this structure is? It looks like some kind of nest, but of what?  theropodcreature386 |
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Post by theropod on Nov 20, 2019 1:44:29 GMT 5
Clearly some kind of wasp, but I suppose you knew that. I’m afraid I cannot help you a lot when it comes to insects, let alone North American ones.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 20, 2019 1:52:30 GMT 5
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Post by Verdugo on Dec 28, 2019 16:34:26 GMT 5
I went to work in a biology lab for something due later and found some skeletonized cat limbs with claws on them stored in a box. They were not all the same specimen (given that there were >2 forelimbs and >2 hindlimbs). First are the manual claws. I hope you can notice how laterally compressed they are (it was hard to take photos of the ventral surface with my phone since they were bolted onto wooden boards), and certainly how hooked and sharp at the tip they are. Now look at the pedal claws. Notice how the claws are less recurved, thicker (again, hope you can see this well, as it was hard to take ventral shots), and less finely pointed at the tip. I can not really see the images you posted. Can you try posting it using different methods? |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 28, 2019 18:00:47 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 15, 2020 20:17:28 GMT 5
I was building up an insect collection for a class. This is what I have so far. I tried my best to organize them by order and family (termites, for the purposes of this class, were counted as their own order Isoptera, even though termites are now known to be eusocial cockroaches). All I have to do now is add labels.   |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 20, 2020 6:44:42 GMT 5
I've had to do some repositioning when I added the labels in. But this is them now.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 28, 2020 8:00:56 GMT 5
Bird time. My dad and I have had the habit of walking more on trails recently, probably from all the times we went insect collecting outside together for my class. But these are some pictures he took with his camera, subsequently zooming and cropping. He said these were the best out of several bad photos he took. Downy woodpecker from earlier today.    Double-crested cormorants (pretty sure) from the 22nd of this month.   At the beginning of our walk today I saw this on the side of the road.  I'm pretty sure this is a raccoon, and I was surprised to come across it. I'd have loved to collect something like this, even though I had nothing to store it in or anything back home to properly clean it with. When I got back an hour and 44 minutes later, it was crushed (with some white pasty stuff splattered in front of it...). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2023 21:20:27 GMT 5
The apex predator in my area-  I dunno why it’s sideways |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 21, 2023 1:17:35 GMT 5
Well, it's bigger than my apex predator (the great-horned owl). |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Feb 21, 2023 2:04:42 GMT 5
When I was digging out in the Morrison Formation in Montana last summer I was able to take with me a lot of fossils I found, plus one bone from a modern animal. These are my personal favorites. Two rugose corals (these have been extinct since the end of the Permian).  A modern animal vertebra (possibly a deer; a guy I was on the expedition with found a whole antler!).  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2023 9:05:09 GMT 5
Well, it's bigger than my apex predator (the great-horned owl). Interesting, does that lead to deer overpopulation? |
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