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Mon Feb 4

Play #SnakeHunt for Chinese Year of the Snake!


Love a challenge?

Why not join our daily snake hunt on Twitter? Each day we’ll set you on a mission to hunt down some awesome snake photos and videos from ARKive - http://www.arkive.org.

Win!

The winners can pick their favourite ARKive photos to go on the homepage. So what are you waiting for… start the snake hunt.

Here’s your first clue: Snake, rattle and roll – find and tweet a video of a rattlesnake shaking its thing!

Celebrate the Chinese Year of the Snake the wild way by joining our #snakehunt on Twitter every day this week. 

Tag all tweets #snakehunt 

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Did you enjoy the Superbowl! The crowd went wild for nature’s Super Bowl Superstars!!

Fri Feb 1

Top 10 deadliest snakes


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Forget about snakes on a plane… they’re here! These fascinating legless carnivorous reptiles have featured as terrible killers in fiction for centuries. However, often this reputation is unfounded and most snakes will actively avoid human contact.

But it’s those snake with the potential to kill humans that get the most attention (even if there are no reported cases!) Check out ARKive’s Top 10 Deadliest Snakes.

candyapplewheat:

Ready for my close-up…

Thu Jan 31
Lovely shot!  keeleyhawesome: (by leah.beah)

Lovely shot! 

keeleyhawesome:

(by leah.beah)

Wed Jan 30

Caracel - Wildlife Wednesday


  • This small yet powerful predator can take down prey 3 or 4 times its size
  • They can roam a territory of up to 122 square miles to get food
  • They have been known to jump over 9 feet in the air to catch flying prey
More cool caracel photos, videos and facts on ARKive! 

Is it a bat? Is it a fish? No, it’s a ‘walking’ pancake batfish!


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Check out more weird ‘n wonderful species… 

Tue Jan 29

Are we losing our stripes?


Check this infographic about the tragic decline of tigers.

Please share to raise awareness. 

Thanks to Guillermo Munro Colosio for the infographic!

www.memuco.net 

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Mon Jan 28

Meet newly discovered species - the long-nosed tree frog


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Discovered in the last 5 years - this long-nosed tree frog! 

Meet more newly discovered species …

krahnpix: Even the birds can’t get along

krahnpix:

Even the birds can’t get along

rosieburtphotography: I forgot to mention that since i was leaning out my window and could only photograph either ugly houses, ugly cars, or pretty trees with birds in… there’s a bit of a bird theme.

rosieburtphotography:

I forgot to mention that since i was leaning out my window and could only photograph either ugly houses, ugly cars, or pretty trees with birds in… there’s a bit of a bird theme.

lizazunchangedthoughtssince86: black & white

lizazunchangedthoughtssince86:

black & white

Fri Jan 25
Check out this cool Frog for Friday!  opisthokonta: polkadot frog (Boophis sp.) (by pbertner)

Check out this cool Frog for Friday! 

opisthokonta:

polkadot frog (Boophis sp.) (by pbertner)

(via islarobertson)

Thu Jan 24
edenchannel: Would you like a sneak peek at the first episode of #AttenboroughsCuriosities? Well you can! Click to watch David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities is a five part series in which Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

edenchannel:

Would you like a sneak peek at the first episode of #AttenboroughsCuriosities? Well you can!

Click to watch

David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities is a five part series in which Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

Simply beautiful! 

earth-song:

Chickadee hanging out in the flowering bush.

Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus
Poortland, OR


by DeeOtter