Platform: Web App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: Chrome, Edge URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=36391&on=2024%2F02%2F05&user_id=nothin…

This has been fixed. We moved the Identify page to API v2 this week, and this is one of a few bugs related to that. Let us know if you find any more.

I just noticed that on a few observations myself for the first time today. Ironically, they were photos of bugs… (well, hexapods of some sort, anyway!). And the ones I saw were all much more stretched than this (way out of recognition). I just hadn’t got around to reporting. For the record, I was u…

Can you post any links to specific ones if you find? It often helps to have >1 example for assessing bugs

I can replicate, I’ll let our devs know.

It’s such a weird bug because it only seems to happen in the Identify modal and not the main observation page.

Zoom in Identify Stretches Pic

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grampianshiker January 29, 2026, 1:15pm 6

Just found this as one example, if you still wanted it. https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/196367958

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Zoom in Identify Stretches Pic

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