I’m not big into dinosaurs generally, but there’s some hard-to-define quality of paleontology detective work that’s a special delight. This is a prime example: nature.com/articles/s41598-017

[nodding thoughtfully:] As true of me today as it was of hadrosaurs 75 million years ago.

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Many years ago, after an ill-timed sliding back of a seat following a large meal of Joe's Stone Crab takeout, a group of friends decided "right in the crabs and spinach" should be some kind of rhyming slang for getting hit in the solar plexus.

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@grantimatter [science voice:] We theorize that the ingestion of the crab tissue and the leafy material was intentional but that getting whanged real bad right in the torso was not.

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