1) There were a few larger theropods. But they were not built for bite strength. The carcharodontosaurs were built for slicing meat, and the spinosaurs were built (maybe) for snagging slippery food. Both groups may have had members larger than Tyrannosaurus, but neither had the crushing jaws to match.

Yeah she has had some pretty great articles of late. Perhaps she did earlier, too . . . I've only just recently started checking the authors with any consistency.

That's fair, then. Thank you. I apologize for making too broad a statement.

Oh shoot. I didn't notice the asterisk the first time through. The world seems a little bleaker knowing that my local library won't have back issues of the Journal of Apocryphal Chemistry laying around.

While I'm 100% convinced that global warming is happening, and caused by human activity . . . this "great" infographic is anything but. It misses what climate-change deniers actually believe, and also misses reality, and replaces both with a strawman and some self-congratulation.

When I was in my teens, I microwaved an egg (because hard-boiling one in water took too long, and I wanted an egg salad sandwich before the Matlock commercial break was over.)

Looks like they pieced together four otherwise unconnected lines from the song:

"The Secret Life of Lobsters" is a great book. It follows lobster biologists and lobster fishers, and details some rather peculiar aspects of lobster biology along the way (did you know they pee in their opponent's face every time they land a particularly crushing blow during a fight?) It also mentions the reasoning…

Lobsters get more fertile as they get bigger. A big female lays many, many more eggs than a little female . . . and big lobsters of both genders are far less vulnerable to natural predation than the little guys. A few big lobsters will do much more to sustain the population than a swarm of tiny, just barely…

Elephants live ~60 years, and they only give birth once every 4 (at best). The Vulcans might do alright living three times as long, and reproducing, at best, half as often. Especially since the Vulcans aren't nearly as vulnerable to human encroachment into their habitat.

Hexapods (insects and springtails and a couple other groups) and crustaceans are probably closely related, though where everybody split off is a little unclear. Essentially, one of two scenarios likely took place:

Wait, what's wrong with number 1?

In WWD, they imagined some Anurognathus (another pterosaur) living on Diplodocus and eating parasitic insects. So they weren't attacking the Diplodocus so much as helping them out . . . but they were clinging to their sides and nipping at them, so it kinda looked the same.

Replying on the assumption that this is *the* Mark Witton, pterosaur specialist and paleontologist/paleoartist extraordinaire.

Oh yes, I've seen [reptileevolution.com] before. I'm sad that this article is filed under "paleontology" instead of "debunkery".

There's at least one land animal that's deeper still.

Hey! I really liked reading this article!

There was a guy who eliminated all artificial lighting from his home, and he pretty quickly got onto this kind of a sleep schedule. It was interesting to read about . . . lemme see if I can find it . . .

I think the idea of robot dinosaurs scared him off.

Peters is a crank, and an abrasive one at that. He harasses and abuses the many paleontologists who rightly point out that .jpeg artifacts and the Photoshop threshold tool are not good fossil evidence when dealing with thin, crushed fossil bones.