Article: There may be dinosaurs in your backyard

When I was a young boy, I often wanted to be a dinosaur.

I was one of those children who read every library book I could find on dinosaurs, and carried my own dinosaur books and toys around with me like talismans. With no prompting, I could recite a lengthy list of (perfectly pronounced) scientific names at the merest mention of dinosaurs, in any context.

But reading books about dinosaurs and memorizing their impressive names was sometimes not enough. Sometimes I wanted to be a triceratops. I occasionally wanted to be a tyrannosaurus, too, but usually only when I was feeling really angry or really hurt. Or both. (There were also occasional bouts of wanting to be Godzilla, but that's ...

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