My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all. [...] Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons, coins, men. His hands moved as if he were pulling something from one fist in a series of elongations. Watch the coin, Davey, he said. What if Common Ravens evolved to better steal carrion from carnivores and developed higher intelligence? The judge smiled. It is not necessary, he said, that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it is consistent with notions of right principle that these facts—to the extent that they can be readily made to do so—should find a repository in the witness of some third party. Sergeant Aguilar is just such a party and any slight to his office is but a secondary consideration when compared to divergences in that larger protocol enacted by the formal agenda of an absolute destiny. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. The Met has started a major operation, led by and from the Folly, to catch the Faceless Man. By necessity, Peter will need to confront his old friend gone rogue, Lesley May, and to do that he will need to find out what to with Mr Punch. [1] Theropods, with their air sacs and hollow bones, are rather light. An dinosauroid about a high as an average man would have a weight of maybe 20 or 30 kg. How many homeothermic animals in this weight class exist that are naked or scaly? Well, maybe armadillos, but they have a rather slow metabolism, so calling them fully homeothermic requires a stretch of imagination.

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For one, tree-dwelling dinosaurs would probably look more like tree-kangaroos or birds then monkeys or apes - making that hominid-style body-plan a lot less likely. Much has been made of this issue before. Wayne Barlowe did influence me greatly and I won't deny that "Expedition" directly led me into the world of speculative zoology, like many other people. Intelligence isn't correlated to time. Evolution depends on the mutations that happen and the environment they happen in. In Spec there is no human-style intelligence, mainly because we want to make the point that human-style intelligence isn't inevitable.

The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself. It's no fair accountin and I dont doubt but what he'd be the first to admit it and you put the query to him boldface. The idea there was to create a weird, but plausible deity. Not that I need to explain Venusian every piece of work I create, but wing or horn-like appendages around the head are have long been considered a symbol of power and wisdom. For a -long- time: http://picasaweb.google.com/s.larsen/PanoramaLand02/photo#5100079739243… We Stand with Ukraine Grammarly stands with our friends, colleagues, and family in Ukraine, and with all people in Ukraine. the numbers are dictated by metabolic limits common to any warm-blooded vertebrate living in a sufficiently complicated environment. That is, the brain size is not determined by what is needed to compete; the brain size is simply as large as can be sustained at all, given the resources typically available to these creatures....

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Great article on intelligent dinosaurs. Thank you for citing my article here, it's truly an honor for me. I've also written a story on this topic, but again, completely in Czech :-) Keep up good work, Vlad

A plan that has its roots in London’s two thousand bloody years of history, and could literally bring the city to its knees. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.” —George Orwell, Animal FarmHyper-intelligent dromaeosaurs killed themselves via nuclear holocaust? I am a FIRM believer in that hypothesis.