Mars is inhabited entirely by robots, so this fits in well.

Indeed. Even worse than Grossbodilyharmosaurus.

This is a perfectly reasonable attitude in a species that relies upon camouflage as its primary defence.

Glad to see that the tyrannosaurs had lips.

Thanks for the credit, Lauren.

I wasn’t talking about that. I was referring to someone telling you that the money spent on your particular field of research is, effectively, wasted, and would be more fruitfully devoted to something of immediate and tangible value. That sort of Philistinism bothers me. I have to put up with it myself.

Indeed. So beautiful. So, so beautiful.

So few comments, compared to the plethora there would have been for an article of this sort a few years ago.

That’s the null hypothesis and it must always be stated. We have to avoid the temptation to tell just-so stories about apparent adaptations. However, hypotheses about the reasons for morphological oddities are frequently fruitful. And tooth morphology is generally strongly related to diet. Unique tooth morphologies…

Didn’t this person say that the money spent on your speciality would be better spent elsewhere?

Those aren’t squids that the mosasaur is chasing in the lead illustration - they’re some sort of ammonite. Probably related to North American Baculites.

Send them to France and you get Babar the Elephant.

Yeah, but it takes down a lot of plain old science majors as well. Bycatch.

Photogrammetry FTW.

Good article. Takes me back to my thermal ecology days. It’s really surprising what an organism in the field can do to adjust its body temperature.

Sure. Just pointing out that it might not be straightforward.

And, of course, you don’t have to worry about investing any affection in them.

I’d think that there’d be ethical problems with a placebo control in this case. An even worse one than using medical students.

Gee, the Spruce Goose sure looks different these days. Must have undergone quite the retrofit.

As long as it took them to stop shaving.