Eric Scott
@captainfossil.bsky.social
Vertebrate paleontologist, specializing in Plio-Pleistocene megafauna (horses & bison, mostly), extinctions, etc. He/him. Views my own.
You will be visited by three spirits ...
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
You will be visited by three spirits ...
Happy Solstice, everyone! #WinterSolstice2025 ❄️🌨️☃️
Ring Out, Solstice Bells (2003 Remaster)
YouTube video by Jethro Tull - Topic
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December 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy Solstice, everyone! #WinterSolstice2025 ❄️🌨️☃️
Sasha enjoying the morning sunlight in our window. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
December 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sasha enjoying the morning sunlight in our window. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
For #FossilFriday: a skeleton of an American mastodon on display, Natural History Museum, London, UK. This particular skeleton, originally discovered in Missouri, US in 1840, was later "augmented" with additional vertebrae and ribs & named "Missourium" to distinguish it from standard mastodons. 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For #FossilFriday: a skeleton of an American mastodon on display, Natural History Museum, London, UK. This particular skeleton, originally discovered in Missouri, US in 1840, was later "augmented" with additional vertebrae and ribs & named "Missourium" to distinguish it from standard mastodons. 🧪
Coming up this morning!
Happy #FossilFriday! Join us this morning at 9 a.m. MST, 11 a.m. EST to learn about dinosaurs of the ❄️ north ❄️! Pachyrhinosaurus, Troodon, Daspletosaurus, and so many more.
📲 FREE. Zoom link: museumoftherockies.org/calendar/vir...
🎨: Art by Julio Lacerda
📲 FREE. Zoom link: museumoftherockies.org/calendar/vir...
🎨: Art by Julio Lacerda
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Coming up this morning!
Boris and Sasha keeping warm - and keeping *me* warm - through the cold winter evening. (That's southern California "cold", it's actually only in the mid 60s. But I'll take the cuddles.) #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Boris and Sasha keeping warm - and keeping *me* warm - through the cold winter evening. (That's southern California "cold", it's actually only in the mid 60s. But I'll take the cuddles.) #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
#OTD in 1859, Charles Darwin published his landmark work, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". Our understanding of life and living things has never been the same since. #Darwin #Evolution #OriginOfSpecies 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
#OTD in 1859, Charles Darwin published his landmark work, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". Our understanding of life and living things has never been the same since. #Darwin #Evolution #OriginOfSpecies 🧪
WHY DINOSAURS? Official Trailer. Streaming worldwide very soon! Get updates at www.whydinosaurs.com #whydinosaurs #dinosaurs #fossils #paleontology #jurassicpark
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm home from a few weeks of travel overseas & the kitties like Boris here all seem very happy to see me ... but my sinuses are forcibly reminding me that I actually do have a minor allergy to cats. Gonna take a bit to re-acclimate. Still, let the snuggles commence! #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm home from a few weeks of travel overseas & the kitties like Boris here all seem very happy to see me ... but my sinuses are forcibly reminding me that I actually do have a minor allergy to cats. Gonna take a bit to re-acclimate. Still, let the snuggles commence! #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
For #FossilFriday: one of the very first fossils of the American mastodon ever discovered. This specimen was found at Big Bone Lick, KY, US, in 1739 by a French military expedition, then sent back to Paris for study. On display at the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris. 🧪
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For #FossilFriday: one of the very first fossils of the American mastodon ever discovered. This specimen was found at Big Bone Lick, KY, US, in 1739 by a French military expedition, then sent back to Paris for study. On display at the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris. 🧪
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is looking for new members for the Communications Committee - and in this age of miscommunication and misinformation, committees like this one are more needed than ever. #2025SVP
SVP Communications
Committee (CommComm) is
recruiting new members! They especially need members with skills in any of the following:
- Video editing
- Micro-blogging (BlueSky for example)
- TikTok and Instagram video content
- Background researchers for video programs
Committee (CommComm) is
recruiting new members! They especially need members with skills in any of the following:
- Video editing
- Micro-blogging (BlueSky for example)
- TikTok and Instagram video content
- Background researchers for video programs
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is looking for new members for the Communications Committee - and in this age of miscommunication and misinformation, committees like this one are more needed than ever. #2025SVP
The best advice I received back when I gave my first presentation was, "This is your study and you know this subject better than anyone else who might be listening. Relax." It helped. #2025SVP
Many of our student attendees will be giving their first talk or poster this meeting! What advice you give them to help make it the best experience possible?
#2025SVP
#2025SVP
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The best advice I received back when I gave my first presentation was, "This is your study and you know this subject better than anyone else who might be listening. Relax." It helped. #2025SVP
Pomegranates in our yard. #LazySunday
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Pomegranates in our yard. #LazySunday
This is Sasha. She is my heart. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is Sasha. She is my heart. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
Fascinating new study from @arctomet.bsky.social about how differences in parental care (or lack thereof) between Mesozoic dinosaurs and Cenozoic mammals might potentially affect interpretations of species diversity and trophic abundance in ancient communities. 🦖🧪
Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems
Mesozoic dinosaurs and Cenozoic mammals are often regarded as broadly ecologically equivalent, as they included the majority of medium-to-large-bodied terrestrial vertebrates of their respective eras....
www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Fascinating new study from @arctomet.bsky.social about how differences in parental care (or lack thereof) between Mesozoic dinosaurs and Cenozoic mammals might potentially affect interpretations of species diversity and trophic abundance in ancient communities. 🦖🧪
I didn't know that today was National Sandwich Day when I made this grilled cheese, but what the heck, it'll do. #NationalSandwichDay 🥪
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I didn't know that today was National Sandwich Day when I made this grilled cheese, but what the heck, it'll do. #NationalSandwichDay 🥪
The Museum of the Rockies @museumoftherockies.bsky.social is one of the premier paleontology museums in the western US, routinely producing cutting-edge science and showcasing some truly spectacular fossils. Please consider giving them a follow! 🦖🧪
November 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Museum of the Rockies @museumoftherockies.bsky.social is one of the premier paleontology museums in the western US, routinely producing cutting-edge science and showcasing some truly spectacular fossils. Please consider giving them a follow! 🦖🧪
Movies in a darkened room on Halloween night: "Cabin in the Woods", "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil", and "The Frighteners". Plus margaritas. 🎃 #HappyHalloween
two men are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing a hat that says " beer "
Alt: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing a hat that says " beer "
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November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Movies in a darkened room on Halloween night: "Cabin in the Woods", "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil", and "The Frighteners". Plus margaritas. 🎃 #HappyHalloween
Happy National Cat Day to all who celebrate from (clockwise from top left) Arya, Buzz, Tigger, Zorro, Boris, and Sasha! (Arya is perched on my back while Sasha is lounging in my lap in this collage, in case you were wondering.) #NationalCatDay #CatsOfBluesky
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Happy National Cat Day to all who celebrate from (clockwise from top left) Arya, Buzz, Tigger, Zorro, Boris, and Sasha! (Arya is perched on my back while Sasha is lounging in my lap in this collage, in case you were wondering.) #NationalCatDay #CatsOfBluesky
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social has just published their "Best Practice Guidelines for Mitigation of Adverse Impacts on Paleontological Resources" for paleontologists around the world who work to recover & conserve fossils threatened by human activities.
vertpaleo.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social has just published their "Best Practice Guidelines for Mitigation of Adverse Impacts on Paleontological Resources" for paleontologists around the world who work to recover & conserve fossils threatened by human activities.
Boris is keeping an eye out for anything that might be happening today on #NationalBlackCatDay ... but so far, nothing much going on. Oh, well, Halloween is in the offing ... #CatsOfBluesky
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Boris is keeping an eye out for anything that might be happening today on #NationalBlackCatDay ... but so far, nothing much going on. Oh, well, Halloween is in the offing ... #CatsOfBluesky
The Fossil Finders gets you a front row seat to paleontologists‘ personal fieldwork adventures! This new program is a collaboration between SVP and paleo-Twitch-streaming rockstar @paleontologizing.bsky.social!
You can find Danny’s channel at Twitch.tv/paleontologizing.
#TheFossilFinders
You can find Danny’s channel at Twitch.tv/paleontologizing.
#TheFossilFinders
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Boris catching some rays while Buzz catches some Z's. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Boris catching some rays while Buzz catches some Z's. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
Last minute #FossilFriday entry: a fossil onyx slippersnail, Crepidula onyx, from Pliocene deposits in Ventura Co. CA, found on a construction site by my paleontologist wife Kim & currently on display @ the Western Science Center in Hemet, CA as part of their new "Life in the Slow Lane" exhibit! 🧪🐌
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Last minute #FossilFriday entry: a fossil onyx slippersnail, Crepidula onyx, from Pliocene deposits in Ventura Co. CA, found on a construction site by my paleontologist wife Kim & currently on display @ the Western Science Center in Hemet, CA as part of their new "Life in the Slow Lane" exhibit! 🧪🐌