@bookwench: I've always thought that H. Beam Piper's Fuzzies looked like this cover art depicted them. Not all cover art does a good job staying true to the description given in the book, but in this case I thought they got it right.

@DrLocrian: That is a very good point. The Monsters in the Fiend Folio were indeed mostly compiled from White Dwarf magazine.

@Bootknife-Jackson: It sounds like he cut the picture out of the magazine and/or photocopied it. If he didn't do so it would have obviously not have been from the '30s as he stated to the person receiving it. Forty year old yellowed pulp magazines would not look anything like Analog in the '70s.

@Belabras: Yeah, that was a nice touch. I've always loved her work.

@WookieLifeDay: I've never seen it for precisely the reason you mentioned, Tom Cruse lost it so very completely and publicly. I lost all respect for him, and for anyone who would cast him in a movie. Haven't watched anything with him in it since.

@CanisPugnaxSnores: Absolutely, they should support all platforms. Mac Users now make up about 10% of the market, so it seems reasonable that you would want to port the game to Steam or something so you could reach one in ten potential customers.

@OTWarrior: Yes, but they could be making money off them. There are people who are not in the UK who are willing to pay for them, if they were available. The BBC sells episodes of Dr. Who by digital download and DVDs, so why not the games as well? Such sales undoubtedly would help them keep providing the content…

@britboyj: No doubt! I can see it now, a marsupial lion pride is cloned from DNA extracted from fossils. They are kept in a compound with woefully inadequate containment. They escape, and gory mayhem ensures. Seems like a standard plotline for a SyFy creature-feature.

@Derek Pegritz: I'm with you on "God's Demon" but to film that would require a far beyond "Avatar" level of CGI/special effects.

@britboyj: Indeed! Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

@it must be bunnies: You are correct about house sparrows being non-native, they are actually African weaver-finches. Very adaptable little birdies indeed, they have followed us around the globe. I respect them for thier ability to make thier homes along side us, in almost any environment.

@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.