It's #WorldFrogDay! DYK Males of the midwife frog species Alytes obstetricans carry fertilized eggs on their backs until they're ready to hatch. #SciArt by P.J. Smit, Boulenger's "The Tailless Batrachians of Europe" 1897 in #BHLib via #SmithsonianLibraries: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36107857

This beautiful illustration is from Alfred Moquin-Tandon's "The world of the sea" (1869) digitized for BHL by #SmithsonianLibraries: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13387228

The best decorations are the wild kind: Australia's King Christmas Beetle (pictured here from the species' first scientific description, Donovan, 1805). #AussieXmasTree biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52221720 via
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social & #SmithsonianLibraries

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Three facts about this whalebone walking stick with skull pommel: … <a href="http://tmblr.co/Zt_RAy1t4mYQD" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://tmblr.co/Zt_RAy1t4mYQD

Photo: smithsonianlibraries: Introducing Charlotte Hayward (née Oelschlägel), the original queen of ice!... http://tmblr.co/ZSFNMy185zCII

Photo: smithsonianlibraries: A bit more Charlotte Hayward to end your week -  she’s killing it in that... http://tmblr.co/ZSFNMy186GjmC

Photo: smithsonianlibraries: How to turn around on skis without getting turned around (images courtesy of... http://tmblr.co/ZSFNMy186J6kA

La beauté de cette pieuvre Muusoctopus. Via Carl Chun, The Cephalopoda (trans. 1975) @smithsonianlibraries https://buff.ly/2Hi9K50
Et un super billet de @biodivlibrary https://buff.ly/2HinPzr