Marcel Span
Fish Lizard?
Alpine Newt ( (Ichthyosaura alpestris) - Zuid-Limburg, NL
Funny thing, scientific names. I have always known this newt as Triturus alpestris, but because of 'reasons' it was changed to Ichytosaurus, which translates to fish lizard. Fair enough, a salamander is not a lizard but I guess it's a reasonable description. However, the name is also used for the extinct, swimming dinosaur we only know from fossils, which wasn't a real dinosaur and more similar to a current-day dolphin, but somehow was still named after a lizard. And now this pretty newt gets the same name. Makes sense, huh?
And something completly else, this my first photo where I changed the original aspect ratio, in this case to a 1:1 aspect ratio.
Fish Lizard?
Alpine Newt ( (Ichthyosaura alpestris) - Zuid-Limburg, NL
Funny thing, scientific names. I have always known this newt as Triturus alpestris, but because of 'reasons' it was changed to Ichytosaurus, which translates to fish lizard. Fair enough, a salamander is not a lizard but I guess it's a reasonable description. However, the name is also used for the extinct, swimming dinosaur we only know from fossils, which wasn't a real dinosaur and more similar to a current-day dolphin, but somehow was still named after a lizard. And now this pretty newt gets the same name. Makes sense, huh?
And something completly else, this my first photo where I changed the original aspect ratio, in this case to a 1:1 aspect ratio.