The harlequin toad looks like it's been subjected to the corrupting effects of forbidden magicks
@geekysteven It looks like a teenager with a Pentium Pro and a Perlin noise algorithm decided to apply a "badass mesh" to it and then let it out into the wild.
@geekysteven these are a recent addition to the trade. 2-3 years ago I talked to a dude who had the only captive uhh colony? In the US and he was working on trying to breed them. I wonder if he was successful but I'm guessing he might have been if more recent pictures are popping up... this looks like one of the OG though.
@MaMotta probably! The picture is from Nick Stacey, all his herpetolgy pics are great
@geekysteven It was a brief convo so long ago with a literal stranger so IDR the dudes name but that does sound familiar! haha
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I still say Minecraft needs one more frog: Enderfrog
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It looks like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny
@geekysteven He's so cute. If I wanted an amphibian...
@geekysteven level 15 palette swap of a level 1 enemy ass toad

@geekysteven I want a bodysuit in that pattern.

(OK, and a body that looks good in a bodysuit, but that's a different wish 😁)

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Can't touch this.

doo doo doo doo bom beem bee ro bom beem bee ro🎵

STOP! Poison time.

@geekysteven Do you have a scientific name for this guy? I can't find any other "harlequin toads" that look like this. It looks photoshopped to me but I would adore being proven wrong! Please? I need a purple toad to exist.
Atelopus barbotini - Wikipedia

@vfrmedia @geekysteven Oh my goodness! I am over the moon! Thank you! 💙💙 🐸
@geekysteven and I am pretty sure you can see new colors by licking it !
@geekysteven what a wonderful animal ❤️
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I think it’s just wrapped in my tie dye t-shirt shirt from the 70s.
@geekysteven that's glorious. I love it when animals look like April Fools news stories
@geekysteven It's a black dragon polymorphed into a frog, so it can experience frog sex (and make half-dragon, half-frog babies).
@geekysteven looks like, you say. Sure, just coincidence

@geekysteven @batkaren I wanted to look this image up to give credit to the photographer…

Instead I found out that this particular toad was called Atelopusbarbotini3 before it was sold by a rare wildlife broker, along with nine of its siblings, in November 2021 as “The worlds first and only captive bred individuals ever offered!” 🥺

@geekysteven #Prince is reincarnated into a frog! Who would have thought that. 💜 
@geekysteven It looks like it’s from the Nether! (I have a 7yo who is very into Minecraft)
@geekysteven I can smell the poison status effect dealing damage over time after touching it
@geekysteven Laurie Anderson-Sharkey's Day "And Sharkey says: All of nature talks to me.
If I could just figure out what it was trying to tell me."
Toads are not good at writing but it did its best.
@geekysteven I was staring at this for a few minutes expecting the animation to start