HOLY SHIT

So I wanted to shoot some video to put a smile on the face on someone special. I had to pull this clip separate and share, because look at this happy puff!

Who’s a good puff? Who’s a happy poof? That’s right, this spike-snoot right here!

herzspalter:

Bird bot holding a bot like a bird while watching a bot toy fly

A short tailed Shrew becomes my friend

Not my video, but please enjoy this guy’s video of a shrew sniffing all over his hand for more food. They’re outright fearless when there’s a potential for food. And no, they aren’t dangerous to humans. They’re venomous, but not enough to be hazardous, the worst they can do is bite you.

cool-critters:

Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus)

The Etruscan shrew is the smallest known mammal by mass, weighing only about 1.8 grams (0.063 oz) on average. It has a body length of about 4 centimetres (1.6 in) excluding the tail. It is characterized by very rapid movements and a fast metabolism, eating about 1.5–2 times its own body weight per day. It feeds on various small vertebrates and invertebrates, mostly insects, and can hunt individuals of the same size as itself. These shrews prefer warm and damp climates and are widely distributed in the belt between 10° and 30°N latitude stretching from Europe and North Africa up to Malaysia. They are relatively rare and are endangered in some countries.

photo credits: wiki, thefeaturedcreature

Source: cool-critters

bedupolker:

[breaks into science conference] OKAY so what if baby dinosaurs were fluffy

I mean, there’s nothing that says they weren’t.

Source: bedupolker

ariesthedragon:

I rescued this tiny lizard from the dog pool yesterday and it sat in my hand for a while trying to warm up before I released it.

This is a skink! One of my favorite groups of lizards. You can tell because it has tiny legs, and a fairly tall body that’s almost square from a cross-section. Some skinks even have legs so small that they wriggle like snakes instead of walking on their legs.