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.
On a positive note, though, I've taught pre-schoolers who can provide fairly concice (for a four-year-old) descriptions of an astounding array of dinosaurs as well as describe the differences between saurischians and ornithischians...
-Heather
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?
-- T. Michael Keesey The Dinosauricon: http://dino.lm.com Parry & Carney: http://parryandcarney.com