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Bill Rulon-Miller
@reptiledude.bsky.social
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Checking out BlueSky because family is here and Twitter is no more. He/him. My degree is in history and my passion is in wildlife biology, conservation, and especially Herpetology. If you DM me and I don’t know you I may not answer so don’t get angry.
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For #Caturday this week you get Tsarmina being adorable
A light brown cat rolls over on her back with paws and belly up. She has an eye partially closed and is showing a bit of teeth
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Happy #FossilFriday

Sclerocephalus haeuseri

Photo taken at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Sclerocephalus haeuseri, a Temnospondyl amphibian from the Lower Permian. A large amphibian that looks like a combination between a frog and a giant salamander fossilized in strata. This was a large semi-aquatic predator that fed mainly on fish.
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Oh yeah, Happy Wednesday
Anaxyrus fowleri, a small toad covered in grains of sand, sits among pine needles and moss in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Dril tweeting: Hello Alan this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Since it’s #WorldWalrusDay here is my humble contribution in the form of a photo of a walruses and some other animals. Photos and specimens courtesy of Ned Gilmore at the Academy of Natural sciences
The lower jawbone of a walrus. It has dulled teeth on each end and a bony protrudent at the end. A walrus skull as well as a leopard seal and a dolphin skull
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A gray alien dressed as a hunter in a front yard with a house and a pickup on the curb. They have a rifle slung over their shoulder and are holding a disembodied human nose.
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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This #Caturday you get a photobomb of a pupper on the side
A light brown tabby on her back with her front legs in a bed, right behind her is a dog, a blue heeler that is mostly white with some black, blue, and gray markings
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The Northern Red Salamander, Pseudotriton ruber, active really anytime that’s not the coldest of winter. From New York to the North Florida Gulf Coast and as far west as Mississippi
Pseudotriton ruber, a fairly large bright red salamander with black spots, short limbs, and protruding eyes. It is being gently held by a hand before being moved off of a trail and into some woods.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Time to dust off this old chestnut.

Fellow FB refugees may recognize the joke IYKYK
AJ styles smiling and laughing with the caption: “some ghosts and cryptids just frolicking in a spooky cornfield” Behind him is a very grim Undertaker with the caption: “my need to angry react corn” 🌽 😡
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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What are YOU lookin’ at?
A rhino iguana, Cyclura cornuta, a large lizard with prominent bumpy scales on its face, hence its name, looks sidelong at the photographer from its tank, made to mimic the dry scrub coastal forests of Hispaniola, its natural habitat. Photo taken at Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Belated #Caturday post. Judas looking at me while I’m trying to organize things, no doubt he was contemplating stealing something lol
A large black, gray, with white underside tabby looks at the photographer with a messy table in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Happy #FossilFriday

As I said when I first posted this on FB, this is a very underrated species.

Acrocanthosaurus atokensis

Photo taken at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
A very large dinosaur skull with a mouthful of large, sharp teeth. It resembles a T. rex but it is an earlier species of Carcharadontontosauridae: Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, a very large predator in early Cretaceous North America. It was similar to Tyrannosaurus rex in size and predates it by 60 million years or so.
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Some fall gold, in the form of leaves and Two-Lined Salamanders (Eurycea bislineata)
A northern two-lined salamander, Eurycea bislineata, a golden brown salamander,crawls across a rock from one part of a creek to another. A tree with bright yellow leaves. I believe this is elm but am not sure A northern two-lined salamander, Eurycea bislineata, resting in water by several leaves. The yellow maple leaf highlights its own yellow on its back. A third two-line salamander wedges itself between a small and large rock in a stream. It’s yellow belly visible yet still camouflaged among the various brightly colored leaves.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art!
A rough sketch of a raven with its wings spread and its beak agape. Off page another raven is squabbling with it.
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Hans Moleman being dragged away by two orderlies or whatever they are. He was warned
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Eddison again for #Caturday
A gray tabby cat with a slightly shrunken glassy eye imitates a bread loading a freshly made bed
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Two phenotypes of redback salamander, Plethodon cinereus. One is a leadback with some spotting on it. The other is a classic redback but with a regenerated tail lacking the stripe. #Herps
Two redback salamanders, Plethodon cinereus,next to each other on a slightly mossy patch of dirt. The one on the left is a darker almost black coot with some very small yellow spots in it in a fairly typical leadback phase. The one on the right is a classic redback phenotype but the tail has no stripe and is a bit small compared to the rest of the body proportionately. This is almost certainly from a regeneration of the tail, likely after either a failed predation attempt or an accident of some kind.
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Jack-O-Lanterns
A blurry photo of a Gharial with young Jack o lantern A slightly clearer photo of the Gharial with young Jack-o-lantern A Medusa prop that glows and says things and a Jack-o-lantern of an extinct crocodile, Simosuchus, sit behind a bowl of Halloween candy A Styracosaurus Jack-o-lantern
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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It was this
Krusty the Clown from the Simpsons popping up saying: “Dick Cheney’s dead!” With his signature goofy laugh. The text informs the reader that children are cheering in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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A bit late for Halloween but just in time for Godzilla Day!
A black lizard with prominent scales and a pale belly sits on a small pumpkin. The skin around the lizard’s eyes are a bright orange to match the pumpkin. It is an orange eyed crocodile skink, Tribolonotus gracilis
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Happy Halloween from this Halloween Timber Rattlesnake! #Herps #Halloween
A large, possibly gravid, timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, sits coiled in a pile of wood and pines and sand. It is a dark brown with black areas an and black chevrons with yellow highlights and an orange stripe running down its back.
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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This was his wiki as of last night but, alas, they’ve already fixed it.
“Trey David Yesavage (born July 28, 2003) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) and Daddy of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played college baseball for the East Carolina Pirates, and was selected by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2024 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in September 2025.”
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Oh, Jays fans, you got ahold of a wiki it seems, you rascals
Wiki for Trey Yesavage reads: “Trey David Yesavage (born July 28, 2003) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) and Daddy of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played college baseball for the East Carolina Pirates, and was selected by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2024 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in September 2025.”
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Woolly Bear says Happy Wednesday!
A large, fuzzy, dark brown caterpillar with a broad light brown stripe in its center. The larval form of the Isabella Tiger Moth, Pyrrarcticia isabella, also known as a “woolly bear”. According to legend the brown stripe (or lack thereof) can be read to predict the severity of the winter. Normally the broad brown band would indicate a milder winter but because there are dark spots and stripes within it the prediction is the winter will be long with stretches of mildness and harshness seem intermittently.
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I like these types of neighbors
An opossum, Didelphis virginiana, sits in the branches of a tall tree facing forward on a chilly night in October in Pennsylvania.
October 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM