Certified Dino Nerd

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Not a paleontologist, but a paleontology enthusiast here.

The word "modern" is generally less of a time thing in paleontology and more of a morphology thing. Basically "biologically identical to today" is modern. Human from 300000 year ago is a modern human.

For what counts as "recent" it depends I think on what era you specialize in. My interest is primarily dinosaurs, so my timescale is mostly calibrated to the 250-66 million year ago range.

We are living in a time of unprecedented amounts of original paleoart being produced. All over the world, throughout all social strata and in all sorts of styles. This boom in artistic output was not made possible by the development of art stealing technology and large corporations forcing it upon us but by networking, knowledge sharing and community building. That is what made paleontology more accessible and made it possible for so many people to be inspired by the fossil record to express themselves artistically.

And the drug she used to wipe Grace's memory (in book canon) is a French drug?

I don't think that's coincidence. She had enormous power, unanimously granted to her by the nations of the world, so they couldn't legally get her for things like copyright infringement, nuking antarctica, paving the Sahara, or kidnapping dozens of scientists. Because while nobody could have told her no, nobody tried to tell her no. So there is no legal recourse there.

But using a French drug on an innocent civilian? That does not fall under any jurisdiction that she had control over. She violated the Geneva Convention (probably not something that was given the power to do, especially because standing orders on the Vatt were to - paraphrased - "listen to her unless she tells you to shoot someone").

That's how they got her.

That's why she ended up in a French prison.

In betraying Grace, in sending him to his death, she was signing her own arrest warrant. And she knew it.

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