Re: Dumb questions by kids

[ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)]

>>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.
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>Norman R. King

How about "a mosasaur is not a dinosaur for the same reason you are not an
elephant"?
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