Grand Cayman Blue Iguana

Iguana realizing that, despite what the maps say, he can’t just swim south-west of Arizona and get to Alaska.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Egyptian Spiny Mouse

This mouse has stopped dividing the world into liberal/conservative, democrat/republican, male/female, or even along racial lines.

Using “normal and reasonable people” vs “performance artists, about whom no one has yet figured out their deal” is a much better fit to the available data.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Coelacanth

As a general rule, I don’t like to post photos of dead things, but since I am unlikely to ever see a living coelecanth, here you go.

This is one of the last recently-living remnants of the lobe-finned fish from which some scientists no longer believe that land mammals evolved, though Wikipedia has not been updated to match the debate about the sarcopterygians, the details of which I am only slightly aware.

Long story short: all* the scientists seem to agree that land animals evolved from fish, but perhaps not fish that looked like this one.

* Within a standard deviation or three.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.