I must say that Dinotopia is very good
compared to other dinosaur movies I've seen, even though it's littered with
inaccuracies and mistakes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
To: "dinosaur" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:35 AM
Subject: Dinotopian observations of Mike
Brett-Surman > Mike (whose very busy with plans for field
work this summer) asked me to
> point out the following observations of Dinotopia the TV Megathingy: > --------------------------- > Did you catch the following? > > Zippo is a "Stenonychosaurus". >
That did bother me.
> > The fresh water reptiles that attack the wooden bridge guarding the entrance > to World Beneath are supposed to be MOSASAURS. >
Sad, sad, very sad.
> > When the ankylosaur senator interrupts Zippo's report about the World > Beneath, the mayor says "the Alamosaurus is correct...........". >
Maybe he meant Amtosaurus???
> > Dinotopians are famous for their care of the dinosaurs. So why did they > leave a 60 foot high metal covered brachiosaur outside during a lightning > storm? > > The head master of the Skybax school says "since the two species diverged > (pteranodons and tyrannosaurs) they haven't spoken to each other". > I missed that part.
>
> And of course - "chamosaurus is a hadrosaur". >
Aarggh!
>
The way it was pronounced bothered me more than
that (KAS-me-o-SAWR-us)
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