A couple of wonderful things... Thanks to sclerotic_rings for posting news from Titan: Massive Mountain Range Imaged on Saturn's Moon Titan A mile high and built on water-ice bedrock. Also, thanks to chris_walsh for news of the remains of a juvenile plesiosaur recovered from the Cretaceous of Antarctica. Actually, I knew about that last one already, from an abstract in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , but it's always the thought that counts. And this is a somewhat better account that the one that Reuters was running. No mention of "Nessie," for example.