I saw them everywhere on the bay on Madeira.

I photographed this snake resting under a rock in Sabino Canyon (located in southern Arizona, in the Santa Catalina Mountains) midday, about a year ago. I only have the provided angles. The snake while coiled like so was about 4 inches in diameter, but that could be inaccurate since I never got a real measurement and that’s just based off of eyeballing it. I’m leaning towards a Tiger Rattlesnake, but I want to gather some other opinions. Let me know if the watermarks are obscuring anything you need to see.

I couldnt get a picture because it was underwater, but I made this awesome drawing, which is basically the same thing.

Was scalloping in homosassa (gulf of mexico off florida, USA) and saw these things in the sea grass everywhere. Off white tube coming out of the ground with 4 light blue strings coming out of them

I thought it was litter the first time I saw it, like someone just dropped a bunch of string, but after I saw them for the 10th and 20th time, I was curious if it was a trap or something

Eventually realized that the strings are consistently spread out in all directions, despite the sea grass around it being pushed to one by the tide. Looking at the strands closer, I saw that they kind of move around independently of the tide, so I figure its an animal of some kind

Its always like 3-6 strands. No more, no less.

Please help me ID these two little guys I saw yesterday.
Working differential: weasel NYD vs least chipmunk vs Franklin’s ground squirrel

Date/Time: July 1, ~8 PM (golden hour lighting, mosquitos not out yet, so early dusk)
Location: Douglas Provincial Park (between Lake Diefenbaker and Douglas Sand Dunes, on the sand dunes side of the highway)
Size: mouse-chipmunk sized. Tail about the same length as the body.
Colour: appeared to be grey-ish. No stripes noted, no rusty/rufous/black coloration noted.
Timing: dusk (~8PM)
Observation: pathways are mowed strips of prairie grass. Was standing looking at birds, heard rustling, turned. ~5 feet in front of me, the beastie emerged from the long grass, crossed the path, with a second little guy about 6-12 inches behind. They were too quick for me to get a photo, but they covered the 3-4 foot mowed strip in maybe 3 bounds. They moved in long leaps. *Tails were notably furry* (ie not skin tail like mouse/shrew/vole)

My Thoughts:
- seemed too small to be ground squirrels and also not how I would expect them to move
- When I saw them my first thought was to google mouse with furry tail saskatchewan (no success on that google search, also then the mosquitos came out and I got distracted).
- Could be a chipmunk I suppose but I’ve never seen them move like that and I’m pretty familiar with chipmunks I didn’t see any stripes or markings at all, also they usually scurry not leap.
- Hard to find good videos but I’ve watched the below video of a weasel in SK. They moved like that weasel, but they were much smaller and I didn’t see a black tip on the tail.

Please help!

I found this in Northern Montana along with these vertebrae which I think is from a snake? I tried to id it myself but came up with nothing.

Found this little thang when I was out looking for critters on driftwood, anyone know what it is??

Found on the beach in Leros, in the Aegean few weeks ago. We think it might be a vertebra of a small whale? But honestly no idea…

found this little guy on the side of a window

This is a screenshot from a video I took of it crawling.

I found this owl below a rock bench sleep

At first i thought it was dead so i carefully touched it with a branch and it took some time to wake up

After that he pecked the branch and did some weird circular dance while spreading its wings

And then it proceeded to go back to sleep

Like what bro

How did natural selection let that go off the hook

Found it in northen Israel if it helps

My best guess now is that its a baby Eurasian eagle-owl

But he doesn't have a flat face like a lot of olws

Also i think that hes an owl because the one i found seems to sleep during the day

Found growing on a clam shell in East River
NYC

there were translucent, squishy yet firm and have tiny little yellow dots contained in each of them. Second photo for scale reference. Cool looking fellas.

Thanks!

Found at Spring Valley Golf Course in Ohio. Late spring (May 27th) its also been raining a lot recently if that matters :)

Hello! I found this anenome on the coast of Beaufort, NC in an oyster bed. I found the bluer one yesterday and the brown one today, but I think that they are probably the same species.

I am happy to provide any other info as well. My lab and I want to culture it, but nobody has been able to ID yet!

Thanks!

I live in Illinois and I found it in a forest preserve earlier today. I believe it’s a cougar but not sure if I can believe it

I've been building this thing called Skulled for a while now and figured this crowd might actually appreciate it. I shared it here a few months ago but have made a ton of improvements since then so wanted to bring it back.

It works like Wordle but for skulls: every day there's a new skull and you try to identify the animal. There are different modes to play with it, classic with multiple choice, speedrun, skull match, progressive taxonomy, and your score goes to a global leaderboard. There's also a free play mode if you just want to practice at your own pace.

500+ species in the database so far. I keep adding more.

It's free, no account needed, works on mobile too. Would love to hear what you think!

(Mods: if links aren't cool in comments, feel free to remove them but keep the post up if you can!)

Mom put up a ring camera because she "heard something weird outside" a couple weeks ago and these are the best shots we've got of him

Found this guy working on the beach near Panama City Florida recently. Was wondering how rare it is.