Glass frogs are adorable. This species is currently being reviewed by taxonomists and will be changed in the coming years, but no matter what, they're little cuties.
Exhausted, hiking a pretty steep trail, and this one went right under my advisor. When I fell on it, the students (not exactly biologists) behind me thought I tripped--I merely didn't want this one to get away!
This pair was in a parking lot for a national park in Honduras last year. Someone yelled "snake!" and I came running. We saw four that month!
What have you been seeing this summer?
This is the smallest vertebrate I've ever seen. I had trouble picking it up over fears of squishing it (it was indoors and trapped). Unfortunately, the tail fell off in the process, but that's what tails do. It seemed impossibly small. Lago de Yojo, Honduras.
In an effort to help this community get active, I want to post some of my favorite finds from this year, starting with this beautiful big female eyelash pit viper found in PANACAM, Honduras, last month.
https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=Vietnamese%20Moss%20Frog
New obsession.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/404852
Image credit to /u/SugarMllkTea on Reddit
Two newts I've found in the yard. The top-most is more recent, and the orange one below is from last October. Both are Eastern Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens), and over on iNaturalist the orange one was identified down to subspecies Central Newt (N. viridescens ssp. louisianensis)
I'm eternally delighted by them and honored that they'd stop by my garden!
