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Article: There may be dinosaurs in your backyard
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- Redlands Daily Facts
- Article date:
- March 29, 2008
- Author:
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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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