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The 4th graders with whom I spoke today were
intrigued by the idea that shared skeletal features, and possible behavioral
ones were the reasons some scientists considered birds to be a type of
dinosaur. But they were not convinced..... kids
comments are paraphrased below....
----So if ONLY dinosaurs have the hole in the
hip, how come we think of them as reptiles..... and I do not think birds are
reptiles....perhaps birds and dinosaurs should both be called something
else......
another student piped in with
-----Yeah. They changed the
Brontosaurus' name. Why not make a new name for dinobirds....or maybe just the
dinosaurs that are like birds.
Just figured I'd add their voices to the
clamor......
: ) Jenny
Jenny Lando
Assistant Coordinator Moveable Museum/Paleontology of Dinosaurs Education Department American Museum of Natural History CPW @ 79th Street NYC NY 10024 mailto:jenny@amnh.org 212-769-5189 212-769-5329 (fax) http://www.amnh.org |