The Rhysling company is fabulous! it feels like graduation, where you want to hug or high five everyone with you. (It’s my first time on this stage.)
The Rhysling awards are named after the poet Rhysling, conceived by Robert Heinlein. Rhysling also is a named crater on the moon, perhaps apropos for Pterosaur, which features the famous (infamous?) Chicxulub crater of dinosaur extinction event fame.
You can read more about what inspired the poem in an earlier blog here. Or enjoy the image that started it:
Quetzalcoatlus, ventral view, mounted on platform
Image modified from Figure 4 in Chatterjee and Templin, Posture, Locomotion, and Paleoecology of Pterosaurs 2004, Geological Society of America Special Papers 376:1-64, DOI:10.1130/0-8137-2376-0.1
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