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...once have been king of the predators, but a new study shows that the reptilian giant may be no match for other dinosaurs and vertebrates when it comes to the size...

Author: By Nelson T. Greaves, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T-Rex Did Not Have King-sized DNA | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...There was no doubt he was a dangerous man, a murderer. He admitted it. But there was a glittering, reptilian brilliance to his madness. A line from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness kept running through my head. "Exterminate the brutes." He was Mr. Kurtz gone insane in the jungle. He was anxious to start the interview. His scouts had run down a band of leftist guerrillas, and Casta?o wanted to go and personally exterminate them. He had a blood debt to avenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Most Dangerous Man in Colombia | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...Scientists have discovered a fossil of a 375 million-year-old fish with a reptilian jaw and a swiveling neck that they say is a long-sought missing link between fish and walking land creatures. Disturbingly, they found it in a Red Lobster fried-seafood platter." TINA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Apr. 24, 2006 | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...sexually dubious hotness only furthers the confusion one feels about the band’s new sound. The band speeds up to a climax that seems to say “Look, we have heard the Vines before,” only to slow down to the familiar Reptilian garble that we love to pretend not to love. New Strokes? Old Strokes? Which is better? More posturing, more cool outfits, more “We are so random, no?”The video is almost rescued when some drunken oral ambition goes horribly awry, but that?...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Henry M. Cowles, and Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...lands on a particular tile and a card pops out: “Meteor Shower, Take Evasive Action.” A meteor shower actually does demolish the living room and the two boys are forced to finish the game to get back home. Our two heroes battle Zorgons (reptilian aliens that look like they descended from the “Predator” franchise), a defective robot, and their own brotherly squabbles. The strengths of “Zathura” are the acting of the two brothers and their well-written, delightful banter. It’s tough...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zathura | 11/11/2005 | See Source »

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