this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Tan Eggs

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"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"


For posts about animals that loosely fit the description above. While the animal does not have to hit all the requirements, it should hit some of them:


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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Are these true color pictures?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Not quite, looks slightly enhanced, but they're still cool looking. There's different kinds apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yea, still cool.

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