Tyrannosaurus Rex

I spent yesterday watching a ton of paleontology content, including several that speculated about recent studies about encephalization quotient and therapod dinosaurs. Some of the videos are a bit optimistic, in my opinion, like the one arguing that Tyrannosaurs rex was more intelligent that a chimpanzee. I’m not arguing that T.rex wasn’t smart, there are a lot of studies that are coming to that general conclusion.

Okay, if you're into paleontology at all, even just as a nerdy layman like myself, seeing the news that "Stan," one of the most famous Tyrannosaurus specimens in the world, has been sold to a private collector for a big ol' pile of money -- $31.8 million USD to be exact -- will likely cause you to have opinions.

Today’s Queue header was brought to you by Phil Davis Giles, who tweeted it at me yesterday while I was recovering from my eye injections — you know, the ones I need to keep being able to see but which hurt a lot. So I was very appreciative to get such a cool picture, based on my ranting during last week’s Queue. Anyway, check it out in all its glory — I had to crop it to fit the Queue header, sadly enough — and also, here’s Scott Leyes excellent runner up.

Let’s Queue this.

Dinosaurs were big.