Nerdfighters who love DINOSAURS

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Comment by BronzeGolem on July 14, 2010 at 1:21pm

Psst Noelle there are no brontosaurus any more, the scientists figured out it was a mistake in identification, if I'm not mistaken the same species was named twice, so brontosaurus is actually Apatosaurus

Comment by Noelle Sawatzky on July 14, 2010 at 11:34am

I LOVE DINOSAURS! My top 3 favourite dinsoars are 1) velociraptors 2) stegosaurus and 3) T-rex.

My friend had a stegosaurus eraser that smelled like cinnamon who was called Jimmy. So for her birthday I gave her a stuffed stegosaurus, which was the exact same coulor as her eraser. I then made a cartoon version of Jimmy and gave him dino friends- Gerogre (T-rex), Stacy- (brontosaurus), and Elliot (Triceratops)

Comment by Chris Babb on June 20, 2010 at 3:35pm

I was definitely the biggest science nerd as a young kid so of course I loved dinos. Most young boys my age, if they like dinos at all T Rex was their favorite. I was different. Having watched way too much Bill Nye and Magic school bus, and also having a mother who felt reading was especially important, I loved the Triceratops. Still to this day my favorite animal.

Comment by BronzeGolem on June 16, 2010 at 4:56pm

...Wow I really killed this place, who knew a turtle could do so much damage? Actually I am now very glad to have dug the smelly turtle, a month or so after we got it they found a fossilized one, which I have been removing from the stone block for the last month (it is extremely fun, in a paleontologic way) and because I worked on that other one I can now identify all the bones on this one.

In other great news, starting next Monday I'm going to spend 10 days digging dinosaur eggs with volunteers from all around the world.
If you would like to do something like that, the Museum of Lourinha (in Lourinha, Portugal) has digs every summer and takes volunteers from all around the world, no experience required and they even provide you with the room to stay.
They also take volunteers all year round to work in the lab, preparing the fossils (although then you would have to find your own accommodation, but it's a small town so rooms should be cheap or maybe you can crash with one of the Phds).
So write the museum a letter and come join us.

Comment by BronzeGolem on February 23, 2010 at 12:41pm

Kids, let me warn you, life has a palaeontologist is not has glamorous has you think. I've been working since January at the best dinosaur museum in my country, up until this point it had been very cool, i did all sorts of stuff, like glueing prehistoric sea turtle shells back together (the worlds most difficult puzzle), assembling bird skeletons, looking for microfossils under the microscope (I found a new order of saw fish!) and going to the field to search for stuff. Today was not a good day, we had to go fetch some turtle bones the palaeontologist had in a maceration chamber (a place were you leave animals to decompose so you can collect the bones) , unfortunately the turtle hadn't finished decomposing yet so there was still lots of something that can no longer be described as meat in the bag; the smell was indiscriminately bad and we spent the day removing bones from the gunk; I have washed my hands with 6 types of soap already and I still can't get the smell out of my hands...

Comment by Cierra Longbottom on December 17, 2009 at 8:54pm

for my friends half-birthday i have decided to give her half a dinosaur

Comment by Amanda on November 23, 2009 at 11:24am

I love dinosaurs!!!! I had a huge collection of models and toys when I was a kid.
My childhood was slightly ruined, however, when I learned that there is considerable proof that some dinosaurs, such as velociraptors, had feathers...

Comment by Trogdorable on November 22, 2009 at 5:20pm

For those of you on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-tape-my-thumbs-to-my-hands-to-see-w...

Comment by Weasilish on November 22, 2009 at 4:59pm

Rana, I totally agree with LBT. The first one, amazing, others, not so much. Apparently they're on their seventeenth or something. D:

And I love LOVE Jurassic Park, but I'm sad how wrong they got some of the dinos. Mainly the raptors. Velociraptor is NOT that big!
Yay dinos!

Comment by Rana on November 2, 2009 at 7:31am

oh my god. i can't believe an i love dinosaurs group actually exists. i "oh my god-ed" so loud when i saw. haha. dinosaurs have been my favorite animals since i was like 4. i was OBSESSED with the jurassic park movies. of course you can't forget about the good ol first land before time. the FIRST one. before they got all sucky and musical like.

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