Sizzlin' Snakes

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Y'know the best part about sizzlin' snakes? You can never tell when they're hissing or cooking. 26 | They/Them | Bsc Geoscience| Paleontology Studier | Overall nerd | Posts amateur Paleoart & Creature Design | Hobbyist Illustrator

Chrysocolla sounds like a butterfly species, and is just as delicate and mesmerizing. Commonly found with glorious-green copper minerals like malachite, you just can't help but fall in love with these interference colors. Vote the copper beauty this round! #MinCup26 ⚒️

From Alex Streikesen: "Fibrous aggregates of chrysocolla (high interference colors). Copper ore, Arizona (USA). XPL image, 10x (Field of view = 2mm)". Link: https://www.alexstrekeisen.it/english/meta/chrysocolla.php

3 to 4 ingredient cocktail for today (counting or not counting simple syrup) 2 oz Turning Point Strait Bourbon (can substitute with Kirkland Bourbon) 1 oz coffee liqueur 1 shot grenadine Bar spoon of simple syrup (optional)

Kukri snakes are so cool: they exapted their unusual egg shell-slicing teeth for taking chunks out of prey, like eviscerating toads to avoid their poisonous glands. This makes them the only (afaik) snakes which can effectively prey upon vertebrates too large to swallow!

I saw art of a Meraxes (the dinosaur) fighting a dragon earlier today (well, more like about to be killed by it), and I wanted to say I don’t think I’ll ever be over the concept of real animals fighting dragons.