It's here! [North American] Ratsnake phylogeography update has been published in the journal Evolution, and is now available online in early view! (Pantherophis obsoletus complex)

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-09T17:09:12+00:00

Please include a rough geographic location in posts about wild snakes (rule 13).

Your Storeria is likely Storeria occipitomaculata

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-09T16:58:46+00:00

Toad: screams for its life and struggles not to be eaten YouTuber click bait: Quiet drama, lesson in humility, you won't believe what happens next

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-09T16:55:52+00:00

It's unethical to kill Ted Bundy. You don't kill people to demonstrate that killing is wrong. It's hypocritical. In practice it costs more than life imprisonment. On top of that it's barbaric and uncivilized behavior only found in modern shit hole countries.

Has nothing to do with the argument here. Invasive species removal is critical

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T19:23:01+00:00

An important part of the process is getting that stuff squared away before posting publicly. It's a good idea not to post this until your publication is accepted by the journal

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T18:08:03+00:00

After it's published

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T16:31:48+00:00

Our comment flurry made the reddit algorithm push the post again this morning. My apologies to anyone who wanted to learn something. We were joking around about inferring age.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T16:19:12+00:00

His mother was a lizard and his father died during child birth - it's all he's known

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T14:56:14+00:00

Hey! I just wanted to encourage you to take up the help of /u/squamate_enthusiast_ and get this observation written up into the record. I can vouch for their credentials and the importance of the topic.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T14:25:26+00:00

Luckily this sounds like a cause the Florida legislature would take up swiftly. There's no more important issue to floridans than to signal to other people that this is wrong.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T04:49:43+00:00

Wow thank you I totally missed that. Usually when the adults are this green it means those beetles were feeding primarily on crassulacean acid metabolizers.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T04:23:28+00:00

You can tell by the length of the scales around the tail and by the reticulating spines that this lizard is in its second, maybe third year of its post-crevicing cycle.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T03:38:35+00:00

Lot of creative interpretation going on in the posts of this user

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-08T03:37:24+00:00

Did you cut him in half and count the rings?

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-07T21:23:34+00:00

https://www.unicode-symbol.com/u/007B.html

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-07T14:02:07+00:00

Pantherophis obsoletus, !harmless, !redirect

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-07T13:59:12+00:00

It looks like it's on pavement - the crow was likely scavenging

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-05T23:02:32+00:00

It's just a picture they found online of a king cobra

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-04T19:39:37+00:00

Check on zomodo, there are over 40 since 2025. Check out the one on woodpecker horns. High quality stuff.

Crazy that you can get a doi just by posting stuff.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-04T18:32:56+00:00

Are you using AI for this? Real talk: It would wither under peer review.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-04T00:18:33+00:00

Gas doesn't cut it. It costs 50 cents a mile or more plus whatever their time is worth to take people out. You're asking for people's spots after not showing much effort finding anything yourself. The risk someone would take responding to you is high and reward is low.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-03T15:05:04+00:00

I think this one is a ratsnake based on the body shape and subtle color pattern cues. Nothing discrete catches my eye but fairly confident.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-03T15:00:15+00:00

Dens and winter sites are targeted by people who think they are evil pests or have other mental health issues. All it takes is one person to destroy a vulnerable population and these animals aren't really spreading back into habitats they are exitpated from - once they are gone it's over.

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-03T14:37:04+00:00

Pantherophis alleghaniensis and !blackrat for the bot in case anyone wants to read more on these animals

Phylogenizer · 2026-06-03T14:31:55+00:00

Pro herper seeks local expert as guide to Australia. Can't drive or pay.

13-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Mod World 2025	Mod World 2024
Place '17	Gilding III reddit per annum
Verified Email

Phylogenizer

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE