Exciting news about the very very old

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/dinosaur-fossil-reveals-true-feather-colors/#more-17750

*Dinosaurs sure seem a lot less "dinosaur-like" today. I wonder what would happen if we looked really, really hard for evidence of dinosaur atomic fission and/or dinosaur spacecraft.

*While dinosaurs were actually becoming birds and nobody knew, spiders, by stark contrast, haven't done a darn thing in absolute eons. I really hadn't thought of spiders as being dirt-lazy living fossils. Spiders...