Pride Doesn't Count For Much If You're Dead, You Know.

Here’s today’s badass animal, the Komodo Dragon! These things are f*cking scary!!! But also somehow majestic and awe-inspiring. 

Komodo dragon, Indonesia by Bryn Pinzgauer

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

I love this species cuz I had an internship working with reptiles and the Mud Turtle was a cranky, fiesty finger-biter but that just just made her more fking adorable. Turtle Tsundere.

Eastern Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum)

Also known as the common mud turtle, the eastern mud turtle is a species of Kinosternid turtle which is native to the United States, where it occurs throughout the eastern and central portions. Like many other turtle species, eastern mud turtles will occupy a range of freshwater habitats like ponds and lakes, where they will feed on a range of invertebrates and small fish

Classification

Animalia-Chordata-Reptilia-Testudines-Kinosternidae-Kinosternon-K. subrubrum

Image: LA Dawson

still fuckin love this movie