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<\/a><\/p>\nLeaping lizards!\u00a0 I even signed the petition to keep Dippy the diplodocus in place at the Natural History Museum, but it did no good (he’s gone on tour for now and was replaced by a whale,\u00a0 a mammal of all things).\u00a0 The age of dinosaurs is over, I guess.\u00a0 However, they still have a bit of things to entertain dinosaur lovers like myself.<\/p>\n
Of course artists renditions of dino life are de rigeur, because we can only infer what they looked like and what they were up to.<\/p>\n And the newest thing to make dinos come to life are animatronic dinosaurs, like T-Rex here.\u00a0 \u00a0He was quite popular and scads of people took selfies with him (including me!).<\/p>\n These animatronic Deinonochus, a species made popular in the Jurassic Park movies, are simultaneously adorable and quite scary.<\/p>\n All of this makes a skeleton seem rather ordinary.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s hard to appreciate the time and love required to find the bones in the first place, pry the bones from solid rock in the lab, replace the missing bones with what was probably there, and assemble it together again.<\/p>\n Then there is this newspaper, which was delivered to my house courtesy of a local church.<\/p>\n While I can’t agree with a single one of their conclusions (being largely fact free), it did have some rather nice pictures of my favorite creatures. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think that my love of dinosaurs must have started before I could even read.\u00a0 \u00a0My big brother discovered the topic first, and I always tried to do everything that he did.\u00a0 He made little books about his favorites (or perhaps it was just the ones that he read about.\u00a0 I’m sure he liked them … Continue reading Dinosaurs<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n