Dumb questions by kids

["King, Norm" <nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu>]

Dinogeorge asks (01/12/96; 12:52p):


>What do you tell the kid who replies that mosasaurs were simply 
dinosaurs >that could swim and lived in the water--just like pterosaurs 
were dinosaurs >that could fly?

I would tell that kid pretty much the same thing as I would if he/she had 
replied that turtles are simply dinosaurs that lived in shells.

With respect to pterosaurs as flying dinosaurs, I would say:  "Look, kid, 
I just told you that pterosaurs AREN'T dinosaurs!  Have you been 
listening to that Dinogeorge guy again?"



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Norman R. King                                       tel:  (812) 464-1794
Department of Geosciences                            fax:  (812) 464-1960
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