@it must be bunnies: Corvids are considered one of the most intellegent of bird families, and all the members seem capable of limited learning. Crows & magpies that are hand reared by humans often are able to mimic our language like parrots. They also seem to me to have more individual personality than most birds,…

@FrankN.Stein: Poe was definitely called for +1!

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: I agree that almost all so called "Cryptozoology" has little to no credibility. I'm a Biologist, and I have a very hard time believing in any large vertebrate that doesn't leave some evidence of its presence in its habitat. You make a good point about the marine environment though: it's huge,…

@go-falcons: OK, I found the answer to my own question, the Disney Atlantis movie was set in 1914. I also never saw it, is it any good?

@go-falcons: Huummm, the coelacanth was discovered to still be alive in 1938, so was the Disney Atlantis movie shot before then or was it set before then?

@lazerus72: Well, in the original Star Wars films, we only saw Darth Vader's face one time at the end. Yet Darth Vader was definitely a major character.

@Knight_of_Pentacles:

He has a point about the coelocanth. It was believed to have been extinct till it was rediscovered living in the ocean off the coast of South Africa. Interestingly enough, some researchers captured video of a young coelocanth this last year using a remotely operated underwater vehicle. This was essentially a happy…

@ThisDudeRufus: I've personally aided in insuring the quality of Thursday Tales by not trying to contribute to them. I'm a scientist who can do technical writing, but creative writing is an art I have never been good at. My story would likely read like a set of instructions.

@bawheid: True, they look like they are filled with shredded gold leaf.

@Shevek: I agree with your final point about the mental aspect of arousal. It's been said that the brain is actually the primary sex organ in both men & women.

I enlarged # 3 to full size, and when I did so I noted that there was a third child at the foot of the slide. This kid looks like a ghost, but I'm sure it was due to him being in motion when the picture was taken.

While I was extremely skeptical about this movie concept when I first heard about it on io9, I'm beginning to look forward to it. The CGI images are decent in the trailers I've seen, and the concept if far-fetched is at least loosely explainable by genetic-engineering (unlike "Ghost Shark").

@xnorwaks: You might try Haldemen's "The Forever Peace" it's very different, but examines the consequences of war on both the warriors and society.

@WookieLifeDay: Now that you mention it, it does remind me of that.

This is an amazing fortress, but of course we knew the ancient Peruvians were expert stone masons.

@kleer001: Remember the old saying: "Darkness hides a multitude of sins."

@Foohy: Maybe they were cool when they were SiFi, but now that they have morphed into SyFy the most original and exciting thing they can come up with is Sharktopus.

@Charlie Lesoine: Sadly, they probably have done research that indicates people will indeed watch this. I grieve to think that they have correctly assessed that situation. Reality is taking over TV due to low production costs and higher ratings. Lowest common denominator TV.

@Tyrunn: Those of us not in the UK usually can't access any iPlayer video content. You can (as I understand) use a proxy server located in the UK to bypass this limitation, but I've personally never had any success with this approach.