No time at the moment to complete anything for the blog, dammit. So only time for a picture of the day. Inspired by recent comments made here about the whereabouts of the Krayt dragon skeleton from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Matt Wedel has done a great job of both identifying the skeleton, and of tracking down its whereabouts. As he explains, palaeontologists have actually located the skeleton before (David Reynolds and Michael Ryan did so in 1995), and it was also 're-discovered' by the Lucasfilm people during the making of Episode II: The Clone Wars. Check out Matt's article on SV-POW! here.

Leaving a giant fibreglass skeleton in the Tunisian desert once you're done with it seems an awful lot like littering on a grotesque scale, but then again it's pretty much the same sort of thing that some people regard as 'environmental art'. God knows that I saw enough litter scattered about the countryside in Morocco: millions upon millions of plastic bags, and no replica sauropod skeletons.