The Washington Post today carried this article detailing the re-evaluation of fossils once thought to provide evidence of dinosaur cannibalism. The very well-preserved fossils, part of a large find made in 1947, included evidence of the creatures's last meal, which was thought to be smaller members of its own species, Coelophysis (pronounced SEE-lo-FYE-sis). However, a new, closer examination has revealed this not to be the case. How this whole re-examination got started is nearly as interesting as its findings... Sterling Nesbitt, the PhD student at Columbia University who led the research, was idly examining a decorative bronze cast of the fossil hung on a station wall while waiting on a subway when he noticed something subtly wrong with the specimen.

Who says subway art is useless?