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Ms. Uselton is a recent college graduate from a university deemed "worst in the nation" by Hannity & Colmes. She is currently 'slumming it' until she figures out what she really wants to do with her life, which she suspects might be to work at the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland. Ms. Uselton has been accused from time to time of having a unique voice, and not in the Fran Drescher sense. She lives in sin along the beautiful California coastline with her boyfriend, their other roommate, and more stuffed animals than her boyfriend would like.

I know too much about ...

the childrearing habits of hadrosaurs

My first job ...

telling old ladies "Yes, that fabric would make a beautiful quilt!"

My inspiration ...

Walker Texas Ranger

Sciences > Zoology The evolution of birds

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Any examination of the evolution of birds must start with the Archaeopteryx. In 1861, two years after Darwin published Origin of Species, Archaeopteryx lithographica was discovered in Solnhofen, Bavaria. Preserved in carbonate mud dated as from the mid-Jurassic, the fossil was discovered as two slabs were split, producing mirror image impressions of the creature on both the slab and the counter-slab. And what a creature it was! It looked like a small, predatory dinosaur with one big twist: both sides of slab clearly showed the imprint of long, fully developed feathers splaying out from the...

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