RE: careless editing

[Jaye Macumber <jmacumber@shemovie.com>]

Aside from bones and footprints, it should be noted that we also have some
fossilized soft tissues, skin imprints, coprolites (petrified dung). We also
get indirect info from fossilized plants, petrified wood and all sorts of
things trapped in amber (back to 130 mya). There's also many infos derived
from pure geology.


I don't think that there's more dinosaurs known from footprints than from
bones. There's about 700 species known so far. Some by just one bone, some
by just a few eggs, some by just a few footprints.


Dinosaurs are strictly land animals characterized by specific bone features.
The sea monsters are marine reptiles. The pterosaurs are flying reptiles.


The general culture and the popular mindscape is extremely hard to modify.
You'll never remove the horns from the Vikings helmets. The Flintstones and
"The land before time" are here to stay. Especially if they find some
corroboration with the amazingly fertile creationists (saw that brand new 25
M$ museum in KY ?)


I don't think that saber-tooth can be mistaken for dinosaurs in general.  We
should always bear in mind that a great deal of people have a very narrow
sense of space and time. They get the geography of their own country all
wrong. They misplace Antiquity and the Middle-Age, they don't know when
telephone and printing press were invented. Marine mammals are commonly
referred to as fish. A lot of people, some of which have been in college and
handle parts of your business, don't know the world population, or the name
of the continents...





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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
Phillip Bigelow
Sent: August 22, 2006 6:11 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: careless editing



On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:57:42 -0400 Heather Yager
<heather.yager@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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...


Yes, but do these children know that their family's pet parakeet is a
dinosaur?  That criterion may be a better gauge of whether we're making
progress.

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