The Department of Impossible Cuteness is considering taking early retirement because they aren’t sure anything will ever be able to top these photos of a green anole lizard sweetly sleeping curled up inside the petals of a rose.
This awesome blossom was picked by the daughter of Texas-based Imgur user Cmycherrytree:
“My daughter picked me a rose. We got a surprise when we went to smell it. It looked so cozy and peaceful we couldn’t bear to disturb it. As long as I live I will probably never see this again.”
Hey guys, would you care for some LIZARD CONTENT TM.
[Video description: a green lizard, probably a skink, comes out from behind some logs, sticks out their tongue a few times, lifts themself off the log onto just their hind legs, disappears again, and says “tch-it.”
OMG everyone I know the ACTUAL story behind the gif this time!
Yes, it’s in Australia– that’s a big angry goanna that wandered into a popular restaurant. All the Australians in the vicinity went OH FUCK NO and cleared off, because goannas are mean.
The waitress you see there is a French exchange student, who was quoted as saying something to the effect of “I thought it was a weird ugly dog” and had no idea it was a reptile that wanted to rip her arms off. She’s been hailed as a hero who saved diners.
Australia is a fucking weird place
@petepetepete SEE? EVERYTHING THERE WANTS TO KILL YOU.
Off the scale – new species of gecko with tear-away skin
A new species of gecko which evades predators by shedding its massive scales has been discovered by scientists working in Madagascar.
The species, named Geckolepis megalepis by the team of American German and Colombian researchers, is a type of fish gecko.
It has the largest scales of any gecko and skin specially adapted for tearing away at the slightest touch. The scales can grow back without scarring in a few weeks.
In fact, they are so adept at shedding scientists have had to use bundles of cotton wool to catch them in the past so they wouldn’t shed all their scales.
And the ease with which their scales come away makes describing and identifying the species a ‘nightmare’ according to the researchers because the scale pattern is one of the main ways to tell species apart.
In the end they decided to resort to using micro-CT scans to get a 3D picture of their skeletons, and were able to identify some skull features that establish these geckos as a new species.
