I love dinosaur humor

Educated or Scarred for Life? Yes!

I love videos like the one embedded below, as I have been fascinated by dinosaurs all of my life. In some ways, I wish things like this had existed when I was a child. (Although, since I was terrified of the Philly Phanatic, this might have caused me to blow a gasket.) But one site asks the question are such animatronic and puppeteering scare-fests really educational? Or are we just fooling ourselves that fun and learning can co-exist in such environments?

Found online and posted without further comment

This would have scared me silly as a kid

And I'd still have loved it!

Gotta love a Do-Over

Real Live Dinosaur?!

CRChair got us tickets to the Walking with Dinosaurs show at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, CT. I hope it is at least HALF as cool as this video.

Dinosaurs for Nomad

From In The Bleachers

Mummified Dinosaur Found!

Paleontology tends to be a weird science. You can't prove almost anything by experimentation, but instead you find a toe bone and a tooth and use them to try and figure out how a whole animal is put together. (I remember how hard I laughed during a trip to the Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT, when I learned they had found the wishbone for an extinct bird and used it to construct an entire animal. The wishbone was the ONLY fossil ever found for the species, but paleontologists had posited a number of unique features elsewhere from it.) But every once in a while, you come across a treasure trove. The newest discover is just such a find. They have discovered a complete mummified duckbill dinosaur in North Dakota!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/18/dinosaur.mummy.ap/index.html

This is only the fourth such find in history. The mummified remains may even contain actual DNA that could be used for study. Or, dare I say, cloning.

Dinosaur State Park Visit

It is not well known outside of our humble little state, but Connecticut is home to Dinosaur State Park. It is home of the largest find of dinosaur footprints in North America. We went with Bowhuner, Mrs. Bowhunter, and Baby Bowhunter (and Shadowmom), and had a great time. The park is split into two halves: one half is a geodesic dome which covers the dinosaur footprints, the other half is a series of trails housing greenery from the Jurassic. If you are interested in seeing the whole trip, click on the picture below.