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Friday, March 25, 2005

Coolest Dinosaur Bone Ever and Other Science News

For those of you who missed the news, this is the coolest things ever.

NC State Paleontologist Discovers Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Bones

It means that maybe, one day, we really could grow a dinosaur. It means we may well learn whether dinosaurs are cold-blooded are warm blooded. What color their skin was. What their skin was like.

Of course it means that the Calvins of the world would no longer be able to imagine what dinosaurs were like.

But I can live with that.

Elephants Communication

Of course it’s well known that I think that elephants are the coolest animals ever. But the idea that elephants learn their communication opens up the possibility that we could eventually learn to communicate with elephants. Unfortunately, our track record with dolphins probably means this won’t happen any time soon.

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