Eric Scott

@captainfossil.bsky.social

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Vertebrate paleontologist, specializing in Plio-Pleistocene megafauna (horses & bison, mostly), extinctions, etc. He/him. Views my own.

A head of lettuce on a wooden board
Close shot of Curly (Jack Palance) from the movie City Slickers with the words "Day Ain't Over Yet"
Sam Neill as spy Sidney Reilly in "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983), dressed in a tuxedo, sitting at a table with piles of cash in front of him and a cigarette in his hand
A bottle of tequila with its label - "Tequila Ocho, Single Estate" - displayed prominently ... and an orange and white kitty named Buzz sprawled on the floor in the background
An orange and white cat named Buzz atop a bureau with a window behind him, yawning mightily
A bespectacled man in a black shirt and jeans crouching on a carpeted floor next to a plaster jacket with a big skull of an ice age bison along with other bison bones.
A gerenuk in repose at the San Diego Zoo
Fire hydrant painted to look like a Revolutionary War figure
A yawning striped kitty named Tigger on the back of a wooden rocking chair. It's a mighty yawn.
Chicken dinner
Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Iranian state media reports - Elmira Aliieva There is “zero passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said today. In a video published on Telegram, an IRIB reporter said the vital waterway was “closed until further notice,” and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy had not permitted any vessels to transit the strait for more than 96 hours.
Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Iranian state media reports - Elmira Aliieva There is “zero passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said today. In a video published on Telegram, an IRIB reporter said the vital waterway was “closed until further notice,” and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy had not permitted any vessels to transit the strait for more than 96 hours.
Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Iranian state media reports -Elmira Aliieva There is “zero passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said today. In a video published on Telegram, an IRIB reporter said the vital waterway was “closed until further notice,” and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy had not permitted any vessels to transit the strait for more than 96 hours.
Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Iranian state media reports - Elmira Aliieva There is “zero passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said today. In a video published on Telegram, an IRIB reporter said the vital waterway was “closed until further notice,” and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy had not permitted any vessels to transit the strait for more than 96 hours.
Post on Twitter: "Iran's Fars News says that Iran and Oman will regulate maritime traffic in the waters of the Persian Gulf."
Post on Twitter: "Iran's Fars News says that Iran and Oman will regulate maritime traffic in the waters of the Persian Gulf."
A full English breakfast
The Tyrant Lizard raised itself. Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move. It exhaled. The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness.
Black and white kitty named Otto sitting comfortably on a tile floor in a bathroom, next to the tub and the discreetly just off-screen toilet
Screenshot meme from the movie City Slickers, with a cowboy w/ cigarette in his mouth, with the words "DAY AIN'T OVER YET" across the bottom of the image
An older man laying in bed with a black cat in his lap and a grey cat alongside his thigh.
Allosaurus skeletal mount at the AMNH
Grey long-haired kitty named Sasha in her person's lap.
Pastrami sandwiches and pickles from Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, served at the grand opening of Section 1 of LA Metro's new D Line Extension
Older paleontologist w/ too much paunch on display standing next to an amazing animatronic puppet of a sabre-toothed cat
A rendering of a fossil bison jaw on the wall of the new La Cienega Station for the D Line Subway Extension in Los Angeles. This bison jaw was actually discovered during excavation for the station.
A "tap card" for the Los Angeles D- Line Extension subway system that depicts Ice Age marine invertebrate fossils and a specimen tag along with the phrase, "History that moves us."
Black and white photo of four people, including Sir David Attenborough, in a lab at the Rancho La Brea "tar pits", smiling at the camera. Sir David is second from the left. The others are a woman in a lab coat, a bearded man holding a sabre-toothed cat skull, and a young man with Elton John glasses and an Emerson, Lake, & Powell concert shirt.
Typical bot profile - few followers, few following, massive # of posts
Small tabby kitten looking sleepily at the photographer
Two chickens perched on a wooden post
Devious magical singing mushroom from "The 10th Kingdom"
Handsome orange and white cat looking at the photographer while sitting in sunlight in a window, seen through orchid petals
Statement from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology re: the US administration's decision to dismiss all members of the US National Science Board: "The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology joins with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) in its profound opposition to the U.S. administration's decision to dismiss all members of the National Science Board (NSB). This unprecedented action bypasses the critical guardrails established by the U.S. Congress to ensure that federal scientific research remains independent and free from political influence. "The Administration's decision not only threatens to further erode public trust in federal science, but also eliminates the public's opportunity to independently assess that trust for themselves. Such actions strike at the very heart of the democratic process. SVP calls upon Congress and the Courts to stand up against the politicization of science and the independence of scientific endeavor- an independence that has until now marked the United States as a global leader and partner in scientific research and innovation."
Old guy in a dark museum collection with big calipers measuring horse fossils at a table
Banner for the Museum of the Rockies on Bluesky showing that they now have 700 followers!
Cast skeleton of a tyrannosaur outside with sunlit snow-covered mountains, trees, cars, and power lines in the background
Statement from @nabaviantwb (of Iran?) stating that "some commercial ships will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz upon payment of tolls"
Statement from Iran on 17 April 2026 that "some commercial ships will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz upon payment of tolls".
A cardboard bowl of nachos with a statue of a sabre-toothed cat in the background
Tiger lazing in the shade with its mouth open and massive teeth exposed
Two Galapagos tortoises facing each other - close up of their heads, looking like they're about to smooch (even though they're both males)
Two handsome boi cats, one black and the other striped, sitting attentively on a white tile counter in front of their food dispenser
Mounted skeleton of Mammut americanum at the American Museum of Natural History
Official photo of the dark side of the Earth from Artemis II
Mounted skeleton of Triceratops at the American Museum of Natural History
Photo of a delicious beef and cheese burrito, cut in half so that the interior deliciousness can be seen, on a red mesh tabletop in sunlight, with a (diet) drink and two taquitos w/ guacamole in the background
Screenshot of Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) from "Ghostbusters" (1984) with the words "I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Tweet from Patricia Lockwood stating: "Me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!"
A person in a cute furry dog costume - aka, a "furry"
Older man with dark glasses and a reddish Hawaiian shirt standing in a park near a major street in a crowd of people, carrying a small sign with a drawing of a tyrannosaur with a red tie hanging from its mouth; the words "No Kings" are written on the tyrannosaur's snout.
Gorgeous tabby kitty named Tigger in dramatic lighting, framed by flowers
Screenshot of a score of 0.0060 from an online visual acuity test
Photo of the cat of the television show Farscape
Three cats lounging on a teal blanket with their person underneath, at night in the glow of a single lamp
Marble statue of a bearded man named Charles Darwin, on display at the Natural History Museum in London, England, framed by festive balloons
Skeleton of the dinosaur Allosaurus on display at the American Museum of Natural History
A gorgeous tabby cat named Tigger reclining in the bowl of an off-white coloured sink, gazing at the photographer regally, with some toiletries and a mirror behind him
A Cooper's hawk perched in a pine tree in late afternoon light