Iguana iguana

Posted 24 August 2009 by Matt Young

Photograph by Geoffrey C. Locke. Photography contest: "Animal" category.

10 Comments

Eric Hovind · 24 August 2009

This comment has been moved to The Bathroom Wall.

Wheels · 24 August 2009

Yeah, and we should name it "Don" to be accurate. After all, what is Iguanadon but a scaled-up iguana?

Dan! · 24 August 2009

Wow. One of my other entries was a green iguana, only it was taken during mating season when they're bright orange.

Randy · 25 August 2009

Thats a gorgeous fella'! I bet he gets all the babes.

Henry J · 25 August 2009

Are you sure that isn't one of the "babes"? ;)

jeff locke · 27 August 2009

Eric Hovind said:

really? the first comment on my picture is by eric hovind? really?

Wheels said: Yeah, and we should name it "Don" to be accurate. After all, what is Iguanadon but a scaled-up iguana?

well, seeing that you responded to some hovind nonsense, i know what you mean. but when iguanodon was discovered, people did think of it a lot like a scaled up iguana, and many of the early illustrations portrayed it as such. even many later ones, featuring the (inaccurate) upright posture and correct thumb placement tended to make them look a lot like iguanas. curiously, i was actually thinking of one of those illustrations when i shot this. however, the real iguanodon looked nothing like this, and was much more closely related to birds and crocodiles than lizards. but i'm starting to think more and more that creationists are still living in the 1850's, so perhaps that explains mr. hovind's comment.

Dan! said: Wow. One of my other entries was a green iguana, only it was taken during mating season when they're bright orange.

i have a picture of an orange one somewhere too. a BIG one, too. this one was maybe 2 or 3 feet, but i saw one at school one time that was maybe 5 feet long and bright rusty orange. sadly, i didn't bring my telephoto that day, so the shot's not very good... anyways, apparently the poorly-named "green" iguanas vary in color by region, too.

Henry J said: Are you sure that isn't one of the "babes"? ;)

anyone know how to tell? i sure don't.

Matt Young · 28 August 2009

really? the first comment on my picture is by eric hovind? really?

Almost certainly not; that is why I removed it to the BR wall, where you may read it for yourself. PT policy precludes my simply deleting the comment.

jeff locke · 28 August 2009

Almost certainly not;

it's so hard to tell the difference between imitation trolls and real-life trolls. not sure there's even an effective difference, thanks to poe's law.

Matt Young · 29 August 2009

I can assure you beyond reasonable doubt that Eric Hovind would not have used the return address that this troll used - bleepingidiot@somewhereorother.com. "Bleeping" stands for an epithet meaning copulation.

jeff locke · 29 August 2009

Matt Young said: I can assure you beyond reasonable doubt that Eric Hovind would not have used the return address that this troll used - bleepingidiot@somewhereorother.com. "Bleeping" stands for an epithet meaning copulation.

lol! if i saw that, that would have certainly been a pretty big (and hillarious) hint, yeah...