Bah, this isn't working. Never mind.

Thank you for sharing.

The belly seals the deal. This show alone might be worth subscribing to cable for.

It usually makes me nervous when scientists switch from peer-reviewed journals to books for consumption by the general public . . . or rather, makes me nervous when those scientists are advocating theories that are still strongly debated back in the peer-reviewed journals.

Jedi, through Vader's redemptive scenes, posits that one very good action, at the very end, matters more than half a lifetime of bad actions.

"At my old school, we always had six planeteers."

My aquarium is thick with these little things. Had I known they regenerate flatworm style, I might not have been so quick to think scraping them off the glass would kill them.

And all the girls say I'm pretty fly (for a fruitfly).

THANK YOU, that crooked one was really bugging me.

A romance between Taylor Swift and Zac Efron must feature prominently.

I think the "gun that stops people mid-sentence" was invented quite a while ago, actually.

So what you're saying is that some of those distant, immense gamma ray bursts might actually be evidence of alien warp drives.

One of them, at the very least.

Y'know . . . that's not a bad idea! I could see a whole cottage industry springing up around this! Custom anthropological pranks! Get ridiculous surgical alterations postmortem, then be buried in areas likely to fossilize your remains! I could be dug up someday as a four-armed humanoid monster with razor-sharp…

The scientists who wrote the paper certainly saw it. E. Frey (the dissenting voice) put out a paper of his own a few years back, showing that a close relative, Ludodactylus, was likely at least a sometimes scavenger of fish. Ludodactylus also had much, much shorter teeth than this. So I suspect he has a bit of bias…

Sorry, Eberhard Frey, but I can imagine it would be very easy to catch fish with such needles.

Glyptodon just broke your car? Grab a saddle . . . Glyptodon just became your car.

It's also *easier* to work on Tyrannosaurus because we have so many relatively intact specimens to work with. Many other species are only known from partial and/or heavily fragmented remains, with skulls being more fragile than the rest of the skeleton . . . and often from only one or two specimens for the whole…

As dependent as I am on [calc.exe] and Wolfram Alpha, it astonishes me what our forebears were capable of calculating with the relatively primitive tools at their disposal.

There's a theory out there (not a criticism-free one) that the "serrations" in Tyrannosaurus teeth were really pockets to trap hundreds of pieces of rotting, bacteria-laden meat (the idea being that if a bite didn't kill the prey outright, the horrific subsequent infection would bring down the animal shortly after its…