This is a forum devoted to rational, scientific elucidations of dinosaur ecomorphologies & other archosaurs...Henry Walter Bates & Alfred Russel Wallace's speciation concepts...the interrelationships between dinosaurology & (bio)ontology...the scinema of Willis O'Brien/Marcel Delgado 1925-1933 and "possible worlds" semioptics...the gendered colonial gothic of Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD...the picture-writing-pictures of Hieronymus Bosch & Ray Bradbury...the biomechanical insect swarming consciousness of H.R. Giger...the dinosaur visions of Michael Crichton...the remontant existentialism of A.S. Byatt, Elie Wiesel, Stephen Jay Gould..the Lurianic-like ethos of R.Isaac Asimov. There is no censorship of concepts, and no effort to curtail detailed critiques of the ideas of others (however: such critiques MUST be based on scholarly templates, with full citations, & concomitant clarity of presentation in English; psychobabble based on webpage working notes of legitimate scholars is not intellectually acceptable); no "time outs", nor other juvenile assaults against free-thought (unlike administrators of some dino lists who, in their emunction in Cyberia and embracing of latrability, have not cleared their intellects with encopresis). It should be stressed, however, that vituperative, racialist/gendered attacks are not "free-thought", but fascism. "Scientific creationism", the flagship of crucifictionist fascism since Auschwitz (in the eyes of many historians), has no place within scientific discourse as reflected here. The pestilence of Constantine's sword -- saprophilous "rule heads", their acolytes, et al. -- is antithetical to scientific explication. Thus, whenever possible, we shall bury the abject, psychological marantic cowardice of dino lists not battling "scientific creationism"/"intelligent design" (the oneirataxia of protonazism). Membership is open to all by invitation...reality: a pons asinorum, Lenny Bruce/Harlan Ellison concept: SVP member # 13853