There is a sound common-sense maxim, frequently heard among the wise and prudent of this world—First things first, […]

All shined up and be-legginged in their brave Confederate gray uniforms, they lept from foot to foot, sort of moved around in a general way to keep the circulation going without drawing too much attention, and tried the number four deep breathing exercise, but still couldn’t make much of a defense against that fog which came blowing in and settling down and sticking closer than a brother.

Neverminding swingball, I saw her there on the road the other week and I said hello to her and what did she do? She outright ignored me.

The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.