Thanks for the link.

I’m sure that I’d have noticed if this happened.

And you can’t find where the spider went.

His Shadows of the Apt series is ten volumes long. It’s great. Another huge tranche of books to catch up on.

Try walking face-first into one of their webs.

Another parallel:

A possibility we must make ourselves ready for.

An oldie, but still a goodie:

I guess that you’ll have to catch the next round of the Squid Game to find out.

There are some brainy cephalopods, some of them quite large, and they seem to manage eight or more limbs without indecision affecting their survival chances.

Contingency is important as well, though. Us tetrapods have four limbs because we’re descended from fish that had only two pairs of fins, and that has limited tetrapod evolution ever since. The closest we’ve come to getting an extra useful limb is the prehensile tail, which has evolved independently in a number of…

They’re a real and growing problem in Alberta, and for once, our provincial government appears to be trying to do something about it, rather than just blaming Trudeau - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-s-squeal-on-pigs-campaign-seeing-success-in-battle-against-wild-boar-1.7148705

But at least bows and arrows were relatively cheap to make and maintain.

Their own well being and that of others. Establishing a pool of human H5N1 infections is an excellent way to launch a pandemic.

We are left wondering about this child discovered in Pompeii.

At least in mediaeval England, longbowmen were highly-skilled and valued, even though they weren’t noble.

True, but these findings seem to indicate that there are continuous minor eruptions on Venus.

Given where they were found, one has to wonder if these mammoths were pink.

Took me a minute...

There’s a bit in the Iliad, where two of the Greek warriors (I forget which ones) were talking about their station in life, and it was pretty clear that they were local aristocrats back in Greece (well, Hellas, at the time, which was broken up into many little states). One tells the other that they can justify living…