The message on Darwin Day is this is one of the great unifying ideas in biology.

It's one of the great ideas in science ever.

Ethically, in our profession, if a specimen is not in the public domain its scientific worth is about zero.

Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break. For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary.

You don't do students a favor by pretending there are controversies in the scientific community where there are none.

It is great to teach real controversies in school. But 'intelligent design' is a false controversy, manufactured by its proponents. Its only 'design' is to confuse students about scientific evidence and methods. It has no standing at all in the scientific community, and the judge recognized this.

If the curator croaks, it's still going to be there.

If this fossil is correctly identified, it's very interesting to find it existed in South America at that period of the late Cretaceous some 90 million years ago,