The New Book of Dinosaurs

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-02 04:25am

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.

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2003-10-02 04:42am

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.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-10-02 11:32am

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.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-02 11:35am

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!!!!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-10-02 12:22pm

Well, she got some of it right.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-10-02 02:27pm

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

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-10-02 04:21pm

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.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-10-02 04:35pm

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.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-10-02 04:59pm

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

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-10-02 06:08pm

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.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-10-02 06:16pm

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...

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-10-02 06:24pm

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.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-10-02 06:47pm

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.

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The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-10-02 07:07pm

Ahhhhhh!!!! Evolutionists!!!

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-03 05:12am

*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.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-10-03 11:31am

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.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-10-03 11:33am

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?

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-10-03 01:09pm

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

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-10-03 02:54pm

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!

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-10-03 04:10pm

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

No, I just had really old books.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-04 07:42am

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!"

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