Posthuman Blues

This mammoth skeleton might be the closest we get till the Japanese finally recreate one. The last I read, aspirations to clone a mammoth had been supplanted by less-ambitious plans to impregnate an elephant with frozen mammoth sperm.





Another skeletal avatar of evolutionary transience:





I took this from the railing outside the observatory. The building on the far right is my hotel. The street features faintly visible painted-on dinosaur footprints.