Still one of my all-time favorite movies.

This movie is awful, and yet, I. LOVE. IT.

So bad, but who doesn't want to fight black alien knights that have swords that fire lasers?

The movie that was supposed to be a proto-type D&D flick, that eventually morphed into "High Fantasty, but in space!"

Cronut... starring Karen Gillan. Coming to ABC!

Anything that has a name like "Selfie" is already dated. Might as well call it "Cronut."

Gotta say, my most successful courting rituals have all been science tropes. I've just moved from "Check out these numerical palindromes!" to "Here's the fundamental principles of relativity, as explained with props I can find in a bar." to "Wanna come back to my place and help me syphon beer from my primary to my…

I love how nonplussed that creature looks, like s/he's about to walk over and beat the crap out of you. "What, you think I look funny? I'll eat you, puny human. These talons aren't just for looking pretty for my mate, punk. You aren't worth the effort of flying."

1. I am loving that an article on feathered dinosaurs in pop culture has meandered over to orca hunting patterns.

That is an awesome example! Thank you, I'd never seen an owl in UV light before. Things that are independently mobile, squishy, and/or smelly are usually in the domain of Jason on Animals, not me on (Earth &) Space, so it's lovely to learn instead of having to scramble around doing research.

From the perspective of a…

Sarcoramphus papa is joining the avian disagreement thread.

Orcas live in the ocean, where colors start to disappear within a yard or two of the surface. They are also sound-oriented animals. Rexes might have had a disruptive color scheme, but it was probably one that made sense for their environment, much like the orca's does for its own environment, where color is often…

His inspiration.

Yeah, but some of the best murderers are vegetarian.

Wait, are you talking tyrannosaurs or Tyrannosaurus? :) I thought you were talking about the latter. If you're talking about the former, then yes, tyrannosaurs are known from a variety of latitudes and environments, including some that might have had regular winters where it snowed, such as the Nanuqsaurus hoglundi…

Falco sparverius disagrees even more...

Cassowary would like a word with you.

To our mammalian eyes, yes. Don't forget, birds can see wavelengths we can't. UV, polarized light, colors we can't pick up (they have more color receptors, and use an oil droplet system in the retinas which allows them to see more colors with what they have than a tetrachromat mammal would), etc. Maybe they look dull…

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So...all avians are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are avians.

Secretary bird partially disagrees.