Re: BRONTOSAURUS FOREVER!

["Robert G. Tuck Jr." <tuckr@digital.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <mike@tecc.co.uk>
To: <keesey@bigfoot.com>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: BRONTOSAURUS FOREVER!

> OK, I admit our laymen here in London may be more educated than yours.
> :-)  Seriously, I think most kids would know the difference.  Certainly
> my Danny (4) would, and I think Matthew (2) would as well.
>

Overheard about two weeks ago at the Melbourne (Florida) public library as a
bespectacled youngster (estimated age: seven), clutching an armful of books,
and his mother left the children's section and headed for the check-out
desk: "Well, I think it's really supposed to be a _Brachiosaurus_."

I peeked into the children's room, and, sure enough, there's a credible (if
you forgive its green-with-yellow-blotches color-scheme), life-size
(juvenile, anyway), three-dimensional model of a _Brachiosaurus_ spanning
perhaps eight meters of the window-wall, its head rising above the level of
the room's drop-ceiling.

I suspect the Harry Potter lookalike had been correcting his mother's
careless misidentification.

-= Tuck =-