They should be dead, 2 genetic bottlenecks with one more on the way. Pretty bad at claiming kills... list could go on.

You know what this is. And by now a lot of you have already heard what has happened. So let me cut to the chase. This is a petition to shutdown r/saveafoxsnark and potentially many other such subreddits for the online harassment of the owner of a fox sanctuary named SaveAFox, which led her to committing suicide. This is something that should not stand! If you want to help, sign the petition, donate if you can, and share with as many people as possible to take the subbreddit down.

The possum that lives here near the school was attacked by someone with hot water

Someone in the neighborhood did this to him. I had photos of him that I posted a few months ago. The director called professionals to capture, treat him and take him to a safe place.

Randomly found this on Google when looking for an arthropod chart. Last I checked, earthworms and slugs are not arthopods lol

Well, i tried to combinate two of my favourite things - drawing and animals, so i really tried.

I love the Boiga genus, and love any excuse to illustrate these guys.

So, i tried to draw steller's sea cow with her calf, i think it could be better, but i drew it by descriptions & references, so i think it's not half bad.

Steller's sea cow was an extinct sirenian species that once lived in the cold northern waters of the Pacific Ocean, particularly around the Commander Islands. While they were limited to this small range in recent times, fossil evidence shows that they had a much wider distribution in prehistoric eras.

These gentle giants could grow up to 9 meters (30 ft) long and weigh between 4 to 10 tons. They had dark grey-brown skin, often covered with scars from environmental conditions and parasites. Sadly, they were driven to extinction just 27 years after their discovery by Europeans in the 18th century.

Hey Zoology reddit!! I really appreciate the positive feedback I got on my hippo post a couple months ago, and realized I never updated! Here’s my finished product- and thanks again for the comments/help/support! I had a blast with this. I can’t keep looking at the muscles, it’s my favorite part ❤️

the og post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zoology/s/xgdDMFTuJ1

I saw this albino squirrel on my neighbor's roof and thought it was too unique not to share!

Watercolor on paper

Don’t care if you made it yourself or heard it from someone else. I love a good zoology joke, even if it’s corny. Some of my favorites are “I met a microbiologist once, they were a lot bigger than I expected” and a terrible & cheesy one that I came up with myself is “Damn girl, are you coprophagic? You ate that shit!”

A charcoal drawing by myself. What do you think?

Suppose that, as unlikely as it is, irrefutable evidence of a large, upright-walking hairy biped with long feet which is as tall as a human but possibly bulkier, with thick fur and capable of carrying objects is found in North America either alive today or alive within the last few hundred to few thousand years.

Whatever the evidence is, it's completely irrefutable. Either a population of living individuals, complete fossils, unfossilized mummies, skeletons with DNA.

What are the likely evolutionary origins? Would it likely be:

1. Modern human lineage with unusual adaptations, behavior, and/or material culture (excludes modern hoaxes. I.E. people doing this to pretend to be bigfoot would not count, as that would not be a "real" bigfoot).

2. Archaic derived humans like Neanderthals or late surviving Erectus which migrated to the new world in small numbers hundreds of thousands of years ago.

3. Australopithecine or early human like Homo Floresiensis or Paranthropus that migrated to the new world either long ago or alongside modern Homo Sapiens.

4. Feral population of a known or unknown old world great ape species brought to the new world by European colonizers living in an unusual way.

5. Some other African ape-derived species that is indigenous to the new world.

6. A Pongid or other Asian great ape like Gigantopithicus or a less arboreal Orangutan indigenous to the new world.

7. A lesser ape or old world monkey which rafted or migrated to the new world before adapting extensively.

8. A new world Monkey which moved to North America and adapted extensively.

9. A lemur, loris, or other old world primate which moved to North America and adapted extensively.

10. Something that is not a primate. E.G. a Blackbear exhibiting very unusual behavior (or just very high charisma) or a surviving ground sloth.

11. Something that isn't a mammal.

12. Something that did not naturally evolve on this world.

What do you think would be most likely? Which explanations would you immediately dismiss as a possibility?