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While huinting down the man I want to study with, I came across This review about one of his books.

Kristian M. (age 10) wrote: This book is about how dinosaurs live, about their bones and their DNA. Dinosaurs are mammals like we are. There are all different kinds of dinosaurs. There are meat eating dinosaurs and grass eating dinosaurs.

Sorry, I might be the only person in the world who would melt at that.

Perhaps this young person was confused with the theory that the Dinosaurs were warm blooded animals and jumped to the conclusion that they must be mammals. Memph...only 10 years old..I guess the child can be forgiven.

Phew. When I saw the title I was about to think the thread was about one of those books which propagate Kent Hovind's claim about dinosaurs living alongside humans.

InnerBrat wrote:While huinting down the man I want to study with, I came across This review about one of his books.

Kristian M. (age 10) wrote: This book is about how dinosaurs live, about their bones and their DNA. Dinosaurs are mammals like we are. There are all different kinds of dinosaurs. There are meat eating dinosaurs and grass eating dinosaurs.

Sorry, I might be the only person in the world who would melt at that.

That kid is awesome lol.

i remember reading The Lost World when it came out... i think i was 10 or 11 or something... it convinced me that dinosaurs were mammals lol

until i realised you don't have to be a mammal to be warm blooded


That kid has pretty good sentence structure for a ten year old... wait... must not go. into english student mode!!!!

Well, she got some of it right.

There were no grass eating dinosaurs. There was no grass for them to eat.

Frank Hipper wrote:There were no grass eating dinosaurs. There was no grass for them to eat.

Hush Hipper...

For a ten year old, she's doing pretty well.

LadyTevar wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:There were no grass eating dinosaurs. There was no grass for them to eat.

Hush Hipper...

For a ten year old, she's doing pretty well.

Mmmmmm, not really.
In every discussion of dinosaurs being warm blooded, comes the connection with birds. The words "warm blooded", "dinosaurs", and "birds" are driven home in every popular discussion I've seen. She should've made that link, I think, and not to mammals.
My grass observation was for poor, melting, InnerBrat.

Frank Hipper wrote:

LadyTevar wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:There were no grass eating dinosaurs. There was no grass for them to eat.

Hush Hipper...

For a ten year old, she's doing pretty well.

Mmmmmm, not really.
In every discussion of dinosaurs being warm blooded, comes the connection with birds. The words "warm blooded", "dinosaurs", and "birds" are driven home in every popular discussion I've seen. She should've made that link, I think, and not to mammals.
My grass observation was for poor, melting, InnerBrat.

Hey now... I'm 33 and I didn't know there weren't grasses at that time, so

Hell, by the time I was ten, I had about fourty dinosaur names memorized, could tell you what periods they lived in, where their fossils were first discovered, AND that they weren't mammals.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Hell, by the time I was ten, I had about fourty dinosaur names memorized, could tell you what periods they lived in, where their fossils were first discovered, AND that they weren't mammals.

Is that it?

Of course...when I was 10, the idea of Dinosaurs having feathers was considered rediculous...

Oh well, yeah. I love das dinos and for a little while thought about going into Paleontology...

Ha! I was an absolute dino-freak. I had memorized dozens of dino books by ten; all their glossaries of dinosaurs' names, eating habits, time-periods, locations, ect. I loved dinosaurs. By ten I could've beat that guys ass with a Allasaurus pelvis.

Captain_Cyran wrote:Oh well, yeah. I love das dinos and for a little while thought about going into Paleontology...

Doesn't every guy at some time or another? That, and being an astronaut. Everyone guy wants to be a paleontologist or an astronaut at some point.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Ha! I was an absolute dino-freak. I had memorized dozens of dino books by ten; all their glossaries of dinosaurs' names, eating habits, time-periods, locations, ect. I loved dinosaurs. By ten I could've beat that guys ass with a Allasaurus pelvis.

*Eh hem*

I believe that is Allosaurus.

PH34R M4 SW33T D1N0 SK1LLZ!!!1

Ahhhhhh!!!! Evolutionists!!!

*thwaps the lot of you*

Look, I don't care that when I was ten I had more dinosaur knowledge coming out of my little finger than that little girl. I still melt from kids' reviews.

And Cyran, you must be way older than me, then.

InnerBrat wrote:*thwaps the lot of you*

Look, I don't care that when I was ten I had more dinosaur knowledge coming out of my little finger than that little girl. I still melt from kids' reviews.

And Cyran, you must be way older than me, then.

When I was ten, Dinos still dragged their tails, there were Brontosaurs, and the idea of warm-blooded dinos was limited to *possibly* the tiny ones, and the T-Rex stood upright.

LadyTevar wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:

LadyTevar wrote: Hush Hipper...

For a ten year old, she's doing pretty well.

Mmmmmm, not really.
In every discussion of dinosaurs being warm blooded, comes the connection with birds. The words "warm blooded", "dinosaurs", and "birds" are driven home in every popular discussion I've seen. She should've made that link, I think, and not to mammals.
My grass observation was for poor, melting, InnerBrat.

Hey now... I'm 33 and I didn't know there weren't grasses at that time, so

Grasses evolved in the Cretaceous IIRC. BTW - didn't some dinosaurs (such as the Triceratops and relatives) adapt to eating grass?

Grasses first appeared during the Eocene epoch of the Cenozoic, roughly 7 million years after the dinosaurs.

Frank Hipper wrote:Grasses first appeared during the Eocene epoch of the Cenozoic, roughly 7 million years after the dinosaurs.

GAH!! My textbooks are obviously more obsolete than a Trabant!

InnerBrat wrote:And Cyran, you must be way older than me, then.

No, I just had really old books.

Captain_Cyran wrote:No, I just had really old books.

LOL
I remember when Alan Grantwas talking about birds in JP, (I was 12) and I was thinking "Well that's not a controversal idea!"