Shady
@ellanightshade.bsky.social
She/They. lifelong amateur and aspiring Herpetologist/Natral scientist and wildlifePhotographer! (All photos are mine except reposts.)
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Shady
@ellanightshade.bsky.social
· Jun 23
4 days in the Smoky Mountains for the sole purpose of finding the Yonahlossee salamander! Only found them on the last night/morning!!! Here's my favorite pics!!! #herpetology #herps #salamander #nature #Naturalphotography
Woodpecker appreciation post! Love these cute and colorful little guys! #woodpeckers #birds #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #photography
December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Woodpecker appreciation post! Love these cute and colorful little guys! #woodpeckers #birds #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #photography
My favorite non wildlife pictures from the last few days! #photography #landscapephotography
December 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My favorite non wildlife pictures from the last few days! #photography #landscapephotography
This cute little fuck likes to follow me around and scare away the birds and wildlife... But I love him! #photography #cats
December 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This cute little fuck likes to follow me around and scare away the birds and wildlife... But I love him! #photography #cats
It was a long and miserably cold day yesterday, but it's totally worth it for these pictures! #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #birds
December 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It was a long and miserably cold day yesterday, but it's totally worth it for these pictures! #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #birds
Attending a rock orchestra with my beautiful gf!
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Attending a rock orchestra with my beautiful gf!
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A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL???
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Two ticks found on an 1873 electric eel specimen mark the first recorded case of ticks parasitizing a fish—but only documented just this year.
entomologytoday.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL???
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
Some nice tea and a fucked up game, truly one of my favorite vibes!
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Some nice tea and a fucked up game, truly one of my favorite vibes!
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Hear ye, hear ye!
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
<i>Dendrogaster nike</i>
Parasitic crustaceans can evolve into some pretty funky forms and they have been featured multiple times on this blog. These crustacean...
dailyparasite.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hear ye, hear ye!
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...
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Maybe it’s just my brain chemistry changing, but I’m starting to enjoy books in the way mid-2000’s library propaganda said I would.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Maybe it’s just my brain chemistry changing, but I’m starting to enjoy books in the way mid-2000’s library propaganda said I would.
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Interesting new species. #snake #newspecies #england #naturalhistorymuseum reptilesmagazine.com/37-million-y...
37 Million-Year-Old Snake Species Discovered In England Described - Reptiles Magazine
The researcher say the backbones resemble those of the Acrochordus snakes, which are aquatic snakes found in Australia and tropical Asia.
reptilesmagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Interesting new species. #snake #newspecies #england #naturalhistorymuseum reptilesmagazine.com/37-million-y...
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
Damn is it a beautiful snowy morning!
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Damn is it a beautiful snowy morning!
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Relic worms for relic fishes:
Gyrocotylideans are an ancient group of parasitic flatworms which are related to tapeworms. Appropriately enough, these frilly worms live in the gut of an ancient host - the holocephalans (ratfish), also known as Chimaeras
#Invertebrate 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gyrocotylideans are an ancient group of parasitic flatworms which are related to tapeworms. Appropriately enough, these frilly worms live in the gut of an ancient host - the holocephalans (ratfish), also known as Chimaeras
#Invertebrate 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Relic worms for relic fishes:
Gyrocotylideans are an ancient group of parasitic flatworms which are related to tapeworms. Appropriately enough, these frilly worms live in the gut of an ancient host - the holocephalans (ratfish), also known as Chimaeras
#Invertebrate 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gyrocotylideans are an ancient group of parasitic flatworms which are related to tapeworms. Appropriately enough, these frilly worms live in the gut of an ancient host - the holocephalans (ratfish), also known as Chimaeras
#Invertebrate 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Well this was neat.
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black | Live Science share.google/IcsbD2Lb3zhT...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black | Live Science share.google/IcsbD2Lb3zhT...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
share.google
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Well this was neat.
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black | Live Science share.google/IcsbD2Lb3zhT...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black | Live Science share.google/IcsbD2Lb3zhT...
My boy loves reading with me, lol!
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My boy loves reading with me, lol!
The work fit for Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The work fit for Halloween!
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A fantastic spooky season surprise!
Instead of joining the extinct species list, the wolf spider has crept back onto the Isle of Wight after 40 years of ghosting. 🕷️🕸️
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Instead of joining the extinct species list, the wolf spider has crept back onto the Isle of Wight after 40 years of ghosting. 🕷️🕸️
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Critically endangered species found for first time in 40 years
The tiny orange-legged arachnid was last recorded in the UK in 1985
www.independent.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A fantastic spooky season surprise!
Instead of joining the extinct species list, the wolf spider has crept back onto the Isle of Wight after 40 years of ghosting. 🕷️🕸️
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Instead of joining the extinct species list, the wolf spider has crept back onto the Isle of Wight after 40 years of ghosting. 🕷️🕸️
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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"Two extremely rare dinosaur "mummies" found in the badlands of Wyoming are the first examples of hoofed reptiles, according to a new study."
www.livescience.com/animals/dino... #archaeology #WY
www.livescience.com/animals/dino... #archaeology #WY
First-ever 'mummified' and hoofed dinosaur discovered in Wyoming badlands
Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur "mummies" in the badlands of Wyoming, confirming duck-billed dinosaurs had hooves, alongside a string of other discoveries.
www.livescience.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Two extremely rare dinosaur "mummies" found in the badlands of Wyoming are the first examples of hoofed reptiles, according to a new study."
www.livescience.com/animals/dino... #archaeology #WY
www.livescience.com/animals/dino... #archaeology #WY
How did little bro get there!!!??? Baby redback salamander (Plethodon cinereus) on an adventure! #salamander #herpetology #herping
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
How did little bro get there!!!??? Baby redback salamander (Plethodon cinereus) on an adventure! #salamander #herpetology #herping
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The Birnam Oak and its neighbour the Birnam Sycamore are thought to be the sole surviving trees of the great forest celebrated in Shakespeare's Macbeth as ‘Birnam Wood’ #BirnamWood
#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🌳🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🌳🇬🇧
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Birnam Oak and its neighbour the Birnam Sycamore are thought to be the sole surviving trees of the great forest celebrated in Shakespeare's Macbeth as ‘Birnam Wood’ #BirnamWood
#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🌳🇬🇧
#GreatTreesof Britain #GTOB 🏆🌳🌳🇬🇧
I wish I could abandon everything, just day drink and fish for the rest of my life!
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wish I could abandon everything, just day drink and fish for the rest of my life!
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New risograph from Australian illustrator and unionist Sam Wallman in the shop! justseeds.org/product/what...
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New risograph from Australian illustrator and unionist Sam Wallman in the shop! justseeds.org/product/what...