On 8/22/06, Scott <hmwh@together.net> wrote:
This much ignorance I find difficult to credit. If I showed a picture of a saber-toothed cat to 100 people, asking, "What's this?" I would expect zero responses of "It's a dinosaur." Has anyone any data?
I have intelligent and otherwise well-educated friends around my age (29) who, before I told them otherwise, thought that not only saber-toothed cats, but even trilobites were dinosaurs. -- T. Michael Keesey The Dinosauricon: http://dino.lm.com Parry & Carney: http://parryandcarney.com