Bipedalism

But I might have misattributed what it was for.

It was for a paper called Fetal Load and the Evolution of Lumbar Lordosis in Bipedal Hominins.

So it's not majorly dissimilar.

Mm.

She loves all creatures, great and small.

Biped, milliped, no ped at all.

You wanna hear about animals, she's your girl.

Except for giant pandas, girl.

And the accuracy, again, with people in vehicles is pretty crazy because they're so unique.

Bipedal, metal, and rubber.

We can find them.

I've actually had it used for logging operations where they ticket the truck load as it goes out the gate, and sometimes they don't.

By morning, the sheriff's deputies would find footprints in the soft earth around the house.

Bipedal, three toes, with long claw marks pressed deep into the soil.

Bobby Ford would be at the hospital.

treated for a shoulder wound and shock, and his brother would be sitting very still inside that house, unable to stop repeating the same four words.

The frame of it human in its basic structure.

Bipedal, upright, bilaterally symmetrical.

But the proportions pushed past any human range.

The limbs, too long.

Compare that to the standard modern description of the Jersey Devil, right? Sounds vaguely familiar.

Bipedal, horse-like head, leathery bat wings, small clawed forelimbs, cloven or clawed feet, forked tail, and you're looking at the same animal twice.

Or you're looking at me before the surgery.

For roughly a decade then, an image of a bat-winged two-legged dragon with the name Leeds printed underneath it arrived annually in every household in southern New Jersey that bought an almanac.