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But we digress.

Hi Will.

Hey, David.

So this is something a little different.

Yeah, I'm interested to see how it turns out.

Yeah.

So this is basically a little mini episode that we're going to do, because if you follow dinosaur research at all out there,

you have heard that something big happened last week that has been all over the internet.

Yeah, even if you're just interested in passing, you've probably had someone mention this.

Yes, and it's the kind of thing that

we wanted to talk about, but we have more to say than would normally fit in our regular

little news segment, but we don't have enough to say to fill a whole episode. Yeah. So we're

going to do this little minor rambling episode to get out some thoughts on this new bit of news.

And since rambling is kind of what we do, it seemed fitting to make a specialty episode for it.

Yes.

So this is just for that.

So this episode is about Ornitho Scalida and the fact that it's taking the paleontological community by storm.

Yeah, it has blown up.

The day it came out, I had at least three different people mention it as to whether or not I had seen it yet.

Yep.

So let's talk about that. For starters,

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