“A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. … “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,”

You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal atomic globule.

“You are beautiful,” he whispered. She cast about for something lighthearted to say and skimmed a finger over his upper lip. “I see that your mustache is coming right along. Very scoundrelish.”

Our estimates further show that the most recent common ancestor of extant Osedax appeared during the Late Cretaceous (ca. 74.8 Ma), indicating that the radiation of Osedax would be concomitant with the occurrence of large marine reptiles and teleost fishes in the oceans [56, 57 ] rather than with the origin and radiation of large archaeocete cetaceans during the Eocene (ca. 50 Ma; [58 ]).