tessa

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Science Communication 🔬🦠 Words: https://muckrack.com/tesskou 📷 Wildlife Photography 🦋 ♥️ 🦇 #Nature, #Climate, #Health, #SciComm, #Sciart, #WildOz 🕷️ 🐙 🐧 🎓MSciComm, BSc. Zoology & Genetics 🐋 🌿 Views my own 🦎 Narrm 🇦🇺 ♾🧠 🌈ally

Thick, pale pink trunks textured with short, darker pink wriggly lines, branching into fractals towards the middle of the image, leafed with spiky white polyps at their tips.
Three black cockatoos with bright yellow cheek patches drinking from a puddle in an almost empty concrete casting pool.
Small raised garden bed planted with young kangaroo paws, grevillea, happy wanderer, paper daisies.
Spider with very large, rounded abdomen mostly grey with back-lit coppery legs
A large, white capped pink parrot with grey wings and black eye half covered by an opaque membrane, grazing on grass. Grey feathers scatter through the punk around its neck which mark it as a juvenile.
Large bright pink hakea flower that's a rounded cone of tubular tepals rather than petals.
Shiny orange and black blotched ladybird with delicate little antenna sitting on long nailed fingertip
Book cover illustration of a man and older lady dressed in late Victorian era clothing having tea in a garden, titled The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Translucent many tube legged sea cucumber with a spikey pink crab crawling on it
Two colorful framed paintings, one of the diverse species if octopus, the other of different species of sea horses.
Tiny spikey coral pink baby crab sitting on finger of researcher's purple gloved hand
anatomy diagrams of crab's underside
Fluffy orange bee with huge green eyes and blue and black banded abdomen.
Coil of what could be thick but tapered wire if not for a rounded head and even thinner long snout
Blue book with some wear and the title This Changes Everything
long, snaking, white-slashed brown bird neck emerging from dark water with a silver fish skewered on its narrow pointed yellow beak
too large white birds with dark spoon shaped beaks wading in wetlands
Book cover for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with red border showing a blue whale and pot plant falling from the night sky
Blue cheek and capped, black headed small grey bird with beak open in a song
narrow garden bed fence
raised garden bed fence with succulents
cartoon of a figure standing on a mountain peak saying "I did it" and another figure, still struggling out of a mountainous ditch, saying the same
Lizard with black markings, yellow throat, red chest and spikey crest scales
Book cover with contemplative looking chimp on it and title The Age of Empathy.
Book cover of The Last Unicorn with an illustration of a white unicorn in front of a sunset sky
Three dark grey furry fruit bats with bronze neck floof and big soulful eyes hanging from a branch.
Eastern grey kangaroo suspended in mid hop.
two large white kingfishers on a branch with thick pointed beaks gaping open, lightly blue sprinkled brown wings and black-banded reddish tails
Flat, curved sided triangular shaped grey fish pancaking on sand sea bottom
Silhouetted city towers sprinkled with colorful lights, beneath an even more dazzlingly colorful sunset sky, with a stream of fruit bats black against the fairy floss and golden clouds.
Yellow lizard with dark beard bobbing his head furiously
Grey feathered sphere with a black head section splashed with brilliant blue cap and cheeks. Dark eyes and beak pointed with comical unimpressiveness directly at the viewer.
A triangular flat, grayish fish pancaking at the bottom of the sea on sand
Swimming cream,and red banded snake with head arched up out of tge water.
A yellow bearded dragon perched on a windowsill.
A striking orange wasp with a yellow face and big eyes, viewed from up close underneath as it clings to a window and another climbs over it.
small yellow bearded dragon snug in a clothes pile at the back of a closet
Close up of a yellow lizard with a spikey scaled beard
Dark, curly haired woman with glasses holding a yellow lizard with orange markings and a spikey scaled beard
floor of an apartment with tiny yellow lizard head peaking up over the edge of a bed
Small pile of white floof with a pink gaping mouth reaching out for food a human is holding right in front of its face but misses it. It succeeds very awkwardly eventually.
Three fruit bats dangling upside-down from a tree branch, two looking towards the viewer with big puppy-dog eyes from dark faces set on fluffy orangy-brown chest fur.
Film of a long legged spider relative wrapping silk around a dark chunky spider with a white rump mark
Black sea slug with fluro orange antenna and other accents, bright green spots and naked branching gills on its back, amongst sand and colorful coral ecosystem
A branch colored bird pretending to be a branch on a gum tree in front of a dense, fully blooming yellow wattle bush.
View from the middle of creek surrounded by towering gum trees, reflecting a pink and purple sunset sky as it empties into a river banked by foliage drenched in golden light
A white speckled brown duck, neck thrust out with an open mouth quack.
A black raven like bird with yellow eyes and white undertail tugging quite forcefully at the wire holding the fence screening bamboo together
Side view of a large dark brown to black feathered bird with long neck, small grey hooked beak and insanely turquoise eye.
Spherical bird with white puffed chest, black upper parts and long tail as well as white eyebrows.
A big gnarly old gum tree trunk overlooking a river gorge that's mostly hidden behind the foliage of other trees.
Fleshy pink disc contorted into a disturbing grin with fake eyeballs above.
Chubby, pink ribbed worm coiled into an S shape, with a snout like shape at one end and spikey bits on the other
Pink and grey cockatoo with white cap of feathers on his head and a dark black eye.
Pink breasted grey bird with a white cap and red eyes, nibbling on grass in a green field.
Grey kangaroo scratching its belly
gormless looking mud skipper with big bulging eyes and gaping mouth