Entries Tagged 'reptiles and amphibians' ↓

Although it’s being referred to as “a strawberry lizard” on the Flickr page, I believe it’s a kind of anole, and I’m not sure any anoles are actually commonly referred to by that name. Male anoles extend their dewlaps during courtship, and to intimidate threats.

Look at the way the scales break away on the dewlap. It’s Escher-eqsue.

Via Kenny P’s Flickr photostream.

I found that somebody found the site by looking up “weird lizards,” which I thought was a cute search term. Unfortunately, I don’t have a great excuse to use such a title here because, first, it doesn’t look terribly weird, and second, the tuatara isn’t a lizard. The tuatara lone survivor of the sphenodontia order, and have a skeletal different to that of lizards, and also lack external ears and external genitalia (males of the order squamata, which is composed of lizards and snakes, have hemipenes).

I’m reminded a bit of this older picture.

Via f0rbe5’s (f0rbe’5?) Flickr Photostream.

It’s me again. While I’ve been hiding from everything, I’ve also been scheming. It’ll take a long time to finally see what it adds up to, though.

If you’ll allow me to anthropomorphize the poor creature, its face is as messy as a toddler’s, but it also looks so old! Also, my assumption that anthropomorphizing the animal would only embarrass it is in itself a form of anthropomorphism! Amazing, amazing!

Via Rolandin’s (awesome) Ecuador, Galapagos and Quito Flickr photo set.

This guy was hanging out on a wall outside of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum!

Of course we got excited about seeing animals outside of captivity. It was a pretty cool lizard, too!

There were two things I decided I needed to see during spring break. One was a roadrunner, and one was this beauty…

Another picture from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum!

I have lots of rather uglorable lizard pictures…. I think about half of the pictures I took that I decided qualified as uglorable are lizards. But hey, they’re just uglorable creatures, I guess!
That, and there are a lot of them in Arizona.

Another Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum picture!

Every now and then you see a crocodilian that’s just in a good mood!
And then you wonder why it’s in a good mood….

Via maggie_p_au’s photostream.

I never knew a toad could have puppy-dog eyes…

Gepat totally captured the charm that toads/frogs can really have! How can you not melt when you see those eyes???

Via Gepat’s photostream.

Hahaha, man, this is weird! I found a picture I liked, and I started preparing it, and preparing the links, and I was like “wait, this name… this name rings a bell.” It’s a photograph by the person Emi showcased yesterday, The Horned Jack Lizard! Man, this is the third or fourth time this weekend I’ve had a weird coincidence like this happen.

Yellow bellied water snake! Most snakes look cool when they’re cute. This one just looks dopey! It kind of reminds me of the goombas from the Super Mario Brothers movie. Man, those things are uglorable!

Also, I think I barely made it out of that title tag alive. That closing center tag posed a more difficult challenge than I had expected. I probably should have wrote it in caps, so some of the letters would have been flatter, and easier to walk over. Except a capital “N” would kind of be a really bad trap. Also… I really hope people get that this is a joke, and not think that I’m rambling like an insane person.

Via The Horned Jack Lizard’s photostream!

I seem to have temporarily run out of my own photos for Uglorable, or pretty darn close anyway…. Darn! But I did find this awesome salamander on Norm Walsh’s Photostream.
It looks angry, but I think that’s what makes it so uglorable.

Via Norm Walsh’s Photostream.