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Plenty of people have wondered just how fast a Tyrannosaurus rex could run. But that might be the wrong question. People should have been asking if this fearsome dinosaur was able to run at all. In fact, a new analysis suggests, the dino’s leg bones would not have stood up to the stress of a full-on run. Yet this creature could obviously outrace its prey. And scientists now say that if it were alive today, T. rex probably could catch most people, too.

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Behind The Scenes: Cape Town City Ballet. by Lar Rattray

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A woman’s first blood doesn’t come from between her legs but from biting her tongue.

Meggie Royer, The No You Never Listened To (via theflowershop)

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claire dearing + hero moments

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Claire, I’m gonna have to track her alone.     I’ll need you to be my eyes if she runs. Copy?                     Copy that.

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Don't break me down I've been traveling too long I've been trying too hard

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My dad is someone who likes to fix things, too. Trucks, washing machines, tractors—anything mechanical. He built me a telescope when I was twelve. It’s still in the back shed, and I take it out every winter, to track the stars in the night sky.

Claire Dearing, The Evolution of Claire. 

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You tackled those demons.

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“Who needs boys when you have a Brachiosaurus?”

Claire understood that in order to make real change, to make any real progress in the world, specifically in helping endangered animals, it required power-----  political power, and money. Claire majored in political science, with her heart set on a position in the U.S. Senate implementing and improving wildlife conservation laws, or the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which had influence in the United Nations. Before Jurassic World, she had a bright future in politics, and was offered five opportunities for paid internships in law firms, and even a Ninth Circuit Judge, when she was in college. 

She attended Columbia University, in New York, with a 4.0 GPA average, and began her fateful descent into corporate business and management when she had accepted a prestigious paid internship at Jurassic World, handpicked by Simon Masrani himself, at the age of 19. She was born in the rural suburbs of southern Massachusetts, to a retired police commissioner (father) and homebody (mother), who raised her and her sister in a relatively luxurious cottage.  

Claire had a pet blue-tongued skink, named Sally, which she fed crickets to, often kept in a container in her dormitory room’s fridge. She had Sally since she was a child, aged 8, and kept her until Sally died of old age in 2012. 

Claire is an intersectional feminist. She is bi, but not openly. Regardless, Claire supports the LGBTQ+ community, intersectional feminism, equal rights, and various other social/cultural issues. She is inspired by female empowerment, and even named all her pets after famous women in history, such as her dog, Earhart, a lab/rottweiler mutt she adopted from the animal rescue shelter she had volunteered at in high school. However, as she became swept up in her ambition and career at Jurassic World, that passion waned... and then returned, when she became an activist and founded the Dinosaur Protection Group. 

Claire’s father does carpentry,  built their kitchen table from reclaimed barn wood. He’s quiet, stubborn, and observant... Claire is closer to him than she is to her mother, who was more similar and closer to her sister Karen, creative and nurturing. Her mother makes hand-stitched quilts and painted pottery. Her parents are good with their hands, but Claire herself has never been artistic, or a builder, and is more inclined to fix problems, not physical things. She doesn’t even like dancing, but perhaps that just requires someone to change her mind.