Re: U-Haul Archelons

[christian farrell kammerer <cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 MKIRKALDY@aol.com wrote:

> As I was driving, to the mall of course, this morning, the picture and text 
> on the side of a U-Haul moving truck caught my eye.  It featured South 
> Dakota, with a giant painting of a turtle and text that read in part, "What 
> is a giant sea turtle doing in South Dakota?  What does an Archelon fossil, 
> unearthed near Buffalo Gap, tell us about life here over 65 million years 
> ago?"  It went on about the Western Interior Seaway, but the truck also went 
> on in a different direction.  

This site also reveals U-Hauls featuring the hippo-rhino _Teleoceras_
(rather unimaginatively pictured as a white rhino with a short horn) and
the Mazon Creek problematicum _Tullimonstrum_!!! (as well as less apropos
stuff like Champ and the "humongous fungus".) I have to give some credit
to U-Haul, they've come a long way since just showing a Burian rip-off
Tarbosaurus on the side of their "Montana" trucks. 

-Christian Kammerer