It’s relatively rare to encounter such people in this day and age, though, isn’t it? Polio survivors in North America probably got the disease in the early 1950s and they’re becoming an increasingly small proportion of the population.

Never thought I’d live to see Galt’s Gulch reach the approval stage.

Fortunately polio is virtually extinct.

Thanks.

It might be that the female’s chances of living long enough to breed more than once are so limited that she’ll leave more descendants if she breeds once and puts maximum resources into that brood, because she will probably get picked off by a predator before she has a chance to breed again.

Hurtful, withering mimicry.

Great stuff, Isaac. Amphibians with scales, wooo.

My parents acquired two of their cats that way.

Were these bacteria brought into the hospital by these patients, or were they picked up in the hospital?

Over that distance, the beam will have spread out considerably.

Are you sure? The Melding Plague is on its way.

So Britons are becoming verminous and poor. What’s next, a war with the French?

I enjoyed Everfair, looking forward to seeing what Shawl does next with that setting.

Turtledove’s daughters have all finished their undergraduate programs, so I don’t think he’s quite so inclined to bulk out his writing now that he’s not covering huge tuition bills.

This is positively Biblical.

Protoceratops might be a good species to start with. There’s lots of fossils of this species, and they’re well-preserved. And it appears to exhibit sexual skeletal dimorphism - would be interesting to test whether this corresponds to the distribution of sex hormones (if they can isolate them) in the sample.

Good potted summary.

Great Salt Lakes? Oh, no, that’s been done.

Robert Bakker was discussing this dinosaur lips back in the 80s, as I recall.

Appropriately, Lake Mega-Chad is, like, totally shallow.