Because no modern land animals even approach sauropod size, scientists have also lacked a living analogue to use as a guide to possible sauropod behavior.
Was his adoption engineered to look like a rescue - or at least blur the line to head off criticism that the Obamas had picked a purebred from a breeder?
Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".
To practice it in criminal and vulgar ways is to exploit its scandalous materiality and ignore the immaterial frisson which constitutes its excellence.
Greens, in contrast, grumbled that it was not bold enough. Greenpeace, an environmental lobby group, said "it would change absolutely nothing in terms of behaviour."