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The Queue: Winter wonderland

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

We finally got our first real round of snow here in Wisconsin and I’m pretty stoked. I’ll be sick of it before winter’s over, I’m sure, but the first snow of the season is always pretty great.


The Queue: 99 million year old fossilized dinosaur tail

It’s a very cool find. I’m more excited about the recent news story that Sue, the famed Tyrannosaur fossil, might turn out to have been a male T-Rex because that would have implications for the upper limit on T-Rex size (females were bigger than males in T-Rex, so if Sue’s a male, that means there would almost have to be a bigger T-Rex out there somewhere not yet found). But the tail, with its perfectly preserved feather structure, is likely a member of the Coelurosauria (all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than carnosaurs were in this group) which means it’s a T-Rex relative.

Yes, T-Rex was a Coelurosaur, not a Carnosaur. Carnosaurs were more closely related to Allosaurus than birds, and T-Rex (despite its looks and predatory nature) was pretty darn close to birds. They may not have looked like giant rock doves, but they had a host of birdlike features. And one thing that little fossil tail might end up telling us is exactly how likely it is that they had feathers, at least in adolescence.

None of this is about World of Warcraft in the slightest, but y’all were going to ask me about it anyway. So there you go. Maybe someday I’ll do another dinosaur Queue.


The Queue: Why always with the Monday thing?

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I finally watched Luke Cage this weekend. I can’t believe I waited so long. If you haven’t seen it, do it.

Today’s header image is irrelevant. I picked one at random. That’s just the kind of day it is.


The Queue: Can I just live here?

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Look I know the Burning Legion is this all-encompassing terrible thing that threatens the very existence of the entire world of Azeroth as we know it, but…can I just leave the heroic deeds to the rest of you guys and live in the library? I’ll be quiet, I swear. You’ll never know I was here.


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