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This mnemonic should help you remember that lay, which begins with the letters L-A, has a long a sound like the one in its definition: to place. On the other hand, lie, which starts with the letters L-I, has a long sound like the one in its definition: to recline. How should I use lay and lie? I have often wondered if there is any correlation between play behaviour and self awareness or sentience. Mammals and birds generally seem to show play behaviour at least at some stages in their lives - with the apparently more intelligent forms showing more developed play behaviour. Outside of mammals and birds, the most convincing evidence I know of is for play behaviour in some Lamniform sharks, though other potential instances exist for a few reptiles, some large teleosts and cephalopods. Except for the sharks I dont find the others particularly convincing. Any thoughts on play behaviour as an indicator of sentience, and highly developed play behaviour as an indicator of significant intelligence?

Oh - and when I said Spec's birds were lame, I did not have carpos and nerds of paradise in mind, rather things like the tweety-birds.

Lovecraft did occasionally refer to subterranean reptilian people, but they weren't emphasized--the major pre-human races were the radiate Old Ones who made their last stand in Antartica, the Great Race of Yith, and the children of Cthulhu and flying polyps that opposed them, respectively. Perhaps partly because of this - but partly because of coincidence - two new articles have recently appeared on big-brained hypothetical dinosaurs. The first was by Jeff Hecht: Jeff is best known in the zoological world for the reporting he does in New Scientist on new palaeontological discoveries, but he's best known globally (so I understand) for his writing on lasers and fibre optics. Jeff's new article (Hecht 2007) highlights the fact that, 25 years on, palaeontologists are still interested in the thought experiment initiated by Russell & Séguin (1982), but think that 'Russell's dinosauroid needs updating'. 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. It bugs me, too, hearing those skeletons called hobbits. For one thing, nobody knows if their feet had curly hair on top, and it seems unlikely that they lived in snug, cozy homes with circular doors dug into hillsides, or undertook quests to hurl inconvenient jewelry into Gunung Agung. I'd be much more comfortable calling Welshmen hobbits, albeit not to their faces. Then again, Homo floresiensis is potentially exciting in redefining this area, as they seem to have eliminated "redundancies" in their brain mass to keep at least Homo erectus level intelligence in a braincase smaller than that of a chimp...

I am a SF artist who has worked as an illustrator for a for a the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.When I said I don't even need to research to know where the infuence was from ( and very specifically ) it was because this is the business I'm in, and artist visual memory. Having read the papers, I think the evidence that Homo floresiensis is a real species is far better than the evidence that the individuals are stunted abnormalities. I agree that people seem to have developed opinions on this issue based on their personal preferences, but this seems to have afflicted those arguing for microcephaly/cretinism the most. I don't quite understand how this has anything to do with religion, but I'll take your word for it. All lightly shimmering in the heat, these lifeforms, like wonders much reduced. Rough likenesses thrown up at hearsay after the things themselves had faded in men’s minds.

Lovecraft mentioned "Serpent people" in a story or two, but never really fleshed out the concept. I find his intelligent Pre-Cambrian Crinoids a lot more interesting. But even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police bears down on its foe, Peter uncovers clues that Chorley, far from being finished, is executing the final stages of a long term plan. On the other hand, the Great Extinction we've been causing depends more on our voraciousness and wanderlust than high technology -- between forest clearance, ocean "harvesting", and scattering exotic species, we'd be getting into trouble Real Soon Now, even without the CO2 overload. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice.

It would be really great if it would be available as a book. Creating hypothetical animals is a hobby of me I had already in primary school, and in general I always tried to stay realistic. considering how long no one really knew exactly what caused the K/T event for (do they even know exactly now?) This linear mass relationship seems very suspicious to me. It suggests that the mass of nerve tissue found in creatures is a consequence of some sort of resource budgeting that has only a tenuous relationship to how much processing power can be brought to bear for the short periods where it tends to make a difference. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons. Hey Darren. I can understand your argument, but really don't agree! You make a great case for us having a civilisation while being physiologically still like Chimpanzees, like our ancestors were. But we aren't. We are talking convergent evolution here, into a form like modern humans. That is the argument. Following your argument, WE WOULD NOT LOOK LIKE WE DO NOW. But we do. And--I refer to my earlier comment. Troodontids were not birds. They were very bird-like, but they were their own form, and doing very well, while another relative of their's became what we now now as birds. Why would they have evolved to look like birds as we know them? It's wrong! (No offense!)The words lay and lie are similar, but not the same. If you ’ve ever been confused about which word to use and when to use it, you ’re not alone. Here we ’ll look at the differences between the two words, and how to use them correctly, with examples. Lay vs. lie: What’s the difference? Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. [...] Dinosaurs had ~165 million years and they went nowhere with regard to developing our kind of intelligence. Mammals have had only half that and produced humans. Why do people think dinosaurs would have got there "if they'd only survived the asteroid..."? woot- Its a daft, but charming notion. Most of the objections to it seem pretty well covered in the comments

Prepare to dive headfirst into one of the best urban fantasy series in the world today, with the seventh book in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, Lies Sleeping. Here's a proper reference for that Symonds (1999) paper, since I obviously couldn't HTML my way out of a paper bag... it's not easy, huh? Maybe humanoid is somehting good to evolve into after all. As, of course, if it wasn't, we'd still be Chimpoids. The nuclear war that finished off anthroposaur society explains the evidence for global wildfires, the bits of stressed quartz and the tektites interpreted by others as evidence for asteroid impact. Mummified dinosaurs - like Sternberg's famous Edmontosaurus from Wyoming [shown here] - surely owe their remarkable preservation to this global nuclear conflict: I think my favourite sentences in the whole book are 'Dinosaur mummies are rare, but when found they are usually late Cretaceous hadrosaurs. Why should they have died so perfectly and been preserved? Because they died of gamma radiation and neutrons which preserved them as surely as it would preserve strawberries in a plastic bag?' (Magee 1993, p. 148).His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk. I disagree that the 1981 Dinosauroid is too human. Critics of Russell's design are too hung up on brain size as the defining characteristic of a hominid. The defining characteristic of a hominid is tool-use (hence the opposable thumbs). For an "intelligent" tetrapod which is totally dependent on tools for survival the human body shape is actually an elegant solution. A second article, this time on the subject of brain size and intelligence in dinosaurs, appeared in a 2008 issue of the Czech magazine Svĕt. The article, by Vladimír Socha (and written in Czech of course), includes a discussion of hypothetical intelligent dinosaurs [this section shown below], and what will interest Tet Zoo readers in particular is its reference to Nemo's Avisapiens. This is the first time Avisapiens has appeared in print if, that is, you don't count Nemo's portfolio (available here). Jeff spoke to theropod expert Tom Holtz, who is quoted as saying that the dinosauroid looks too human, and that - if troodontids were to evolve primate-like braininess - they would retain the long tail and horizontal body posture common to theropods (Hecht 2007). This might sound familiar, because it's the same argument I used when writing about dinosauroids at Tet Zoo. I'm not implying there that Tom stole my idea: he probably thought these thoughts before I did. I'm also quoted in the article, again making the point that, if theropods were to evolve big brains and sentience, there is no reason other than anthropocentrism to think that they might resemble us physically. Exhibit A: parrots. You can opt out of our newsletter at any time and we will delete the information you have given us. An opt out link is included on all our newsletters.