Just say bye bye to it

Except for its scats

pushed you over The Edge?

That is a very impressive piece of work

Yes, that was how I remembered it but royal telephone seems to be the actual title youtu.be/qqdQUL5k2gA?...

Did Royal Telephone make it?

Funny, my partner said that too.

Numbats are generally considered to be termitivorous and have teeth whereas echidnas in the same area eat ants, termites and cockchafer larvae and have no teeth and a much slimmer snout.

Yes, that has struck me too.

I did contact the Smithsonian magazine and had a response from a science editor which led to an hour-long friendly FaceTime discussion about monotreme myths. The reason I mentioned you on BlueSky was when I checked what the current on-line consensus was your article was one of the first to come up.

He may not know me but my affiliation was on the email and my bona fides are easily established.

Nobody is litigating anything. We are discussing scientific data and its interpretation. In my response to Ed I raised some broader biological questions arising from the paper he might be interested in - relating to the costs of acid secretion and the widespread use of proton pump inhibitors.

I emailed Ed Yong and he simply said "that story was one of several hundred written that year, and I had no memory of it until now" which I think was disappointing.

I didn't think I was targeting you - I thought that you would be interested and as a science communicator that you would want to get the facts right. If you read the paper you will see I start with Yong and Newer's articles. The papers concerned are critiqued.