In case you missed it, my post on paleo-art "'What Rules the World?'" is up at Science Creative Quarterly. I wish I caught some of the typos, but I still think that it's a pretty good piece.
Coincidentally, Reverend H.N. Hutchinson's Extinct Monsters arrived in the mail today and a battered copy of William Flower's An Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia came yesterday, so I've got plenty of old books about bones to look through.
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