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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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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
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Every day I have new reasons to use this image
An illustration of an Eastern Bluebird saying, “what?”
October 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Eddison on a pillow for this week’s #Caturday post
A gray tabby with a glassy eye on a blue pillow on a white bedsheet
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Bart and Lisa worried about Lenny
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Happy Wednesday!
A peeper frog, Pseudacris sp., sits among some reeds. Underneath are the words: “Frog says ‘Resist!’”
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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A Northern Pine Snake, Pituophis melanoleucus, among the fall leaves for World Reptile Awareness Day #Herps #Snakes
A black and white with a slight shade of reddish brown snake next to an orange leaf and some dry pine needles. This is a juvenile Northern Pine Snake, Pituophis melanoleucus, an icon of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, one of its last strongholds
October 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Another late season yard friend. I am hoping that this large Chinese mantis, while technically invasive, will feast on the spotted lanternflies I have been dealing with in my garden as they are far more destructive pests.
A large green praying mantis sits in a fence post. This is a Chinese mantis, Tenodera sinensis. They are technically invasive to the U.S. but are more of a mixed bag than some. While they compete with and eat native species (this includes vertebrates sometimes 😱) they also will eat other invasive species. I am hoping that this large individual, almost certainly a female getting to lay her egg case, will feast on the spotted lanternflies I have been dealing with in my garden as they are far more destructive pests.
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The condition on “adoption” (being taken from the caretaker at the local trailer park) was that he and Judas keep their names so I tacked on “Cooper” and added “Priest” to Judas so their names were Alice Cooper and Judas Priest.

Here’s his brother and companion in life: Judas Priest
A cat that’s part gray tabby and part Maine Coon looks up at the camera as he sits on the bed.
October 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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For #Caturday this week we have the late, great Alice Cooper (the kitty, not the singer)
A large, part Maine Coon Cat sits in a bed, he is missing a front leg but is sitting up. He has a stuffed owl toy next to him that he carried onto the bed. He is looking regally at the camera.
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Top panel: a woman looking disgusted that the Blue Jays are winning Bottom panel: the same woman looking intrigued entertaining the thought that the Blue Jays may win and thus piss Trump off if Canada wins the World Series, which would’ve objectively funny.
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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A Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink, Tribolonotus gracilis. They make fascinating albeit challenging pets.
A mostly black lizard with bright orange-red rings around its eyes stands over a rock shaped water dish in a terrarium full of moss and wood
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM