Dinosaurs just want to say "Hey!"

If you haven't seen Jurassic Park, this might be a tad disturbing, but it's pretty darn funny nonetheless.

Aimee the Apatosaurus Planter & Succulent

We love these planters from PlaidPidgeon on Etsy!

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Dinosaurs from the Crunch-aceous Period

Hope to inspire.

Dinosaurs...the ice age.

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That's Quite A Suit, Mate.

Why couldn't my elementary school do this? All we got were fire drill demonstrations.

Walking With Dinosaurs in New Jersey?

Bloomfield resident Guy Gsell has a vision. And that vision is 24 life-size animatronic dinosaurs all rearing their terrifying heads and roaring in a theme park in Secaucus, starting in May, 2012. His company is officially called Jerseysaurus, but the obstacles are formidable enough that he jokingly calls it JerseyTsuris.
Gsell, who is now known in Hudson county as “the dinosaur guy,” spends his days meeting with paleontologists, talking to the Meadowlands Commission staff, visiting the factory in Texas where the animatronic dinosaurs are made, checking out other dinosaur exhibits and looking to lease a parcel of at least 15 acres in Secaucus. There are three potential tracts that meet his specifications, one of which even affords a view of the Empire State Building.

But he hasn’t nailed it yet. “If I don’t get a lease, I don’t have a dinosaur park.”

Like the Renaissance Faire, “Field Station: Dinosaurs” would be housed in tents, with no permanent buildings. “It’s supposed to feel like a scientific encampment,” Gsell says. He’s planning on a parking lot for the folks from New Jersey and envisions a NJ Transit train — “the Dinosaur Express” — for folks from New York City. He plans on charging $20 for adults and $17.50 for kids, and having the park ready enough to start selling it at the NJ teachers’ convention in November.

"I have read Jurassic Park,” says Gsell. “My dinosaurs will not be attacking people, because they’re fake.” Still, there’s enough artificial intelligence built into the mammoth creatures — the dinosaur formerly known as a brontosaurus is 33 feet long — to give one pause.
“They roar, they move their heads to track your movements,” Gsell says. “And when the crowds get big they get nervous.”

Build-A-Dino

It appears the build-a-bear nation is stretching its bounds with a new line of make it yourself dinosaur toys. Headline is? "True Friendship Is Never Extinct." (Oh please.)

Do you live near one of these locations? We wish we did.
T-REX Café^™ at Lake Buena Vista in Florida
T-REX Café^™ at The Legends at Village West in Kansas City
Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Broadway at the Beach, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
5th Ave. at 46th, New York City, New York

check out more of the store's details online here:  http://www.buildadino.com/

My Old Stuffed Dinosaur Friend

Giants Who Scarfed Down Fast-Food Feasts

A life-size model of a 60-foot female Mamenchisaurus, whose fossilized bones were discovered in China, was close to ready at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

 For more than seven years, a group of German and Swiss scientists has made a concerted effort to test the limits of body size in terrestrial vertebrates and, in the process, try to answer these and other questions related to the enigma of sauropod gigantism. Findings by many other scientists have been reviewed and analyzed, then tested with new experiments and more observations.

“We actually have been re-engineering a sauropod,” said P. Martin Sander, a paleontologist at the University of Bonn and leader of the research team. “We are looking for physical advantages it had over other large animals and assessing various hypotheses.”

One clear explanation has emerged: These were the ultimate fast-food gourmands. Reaching all around with their long necks, these giants gulped down enormous meals. With no molars in their relatively small heads, they were unequipped for serious chewing. They let the digestive juices of their capacious bodies break down their heaping intake while they just kept packing away more chow.
This was seemingly the only efficient way for sauropods to satisfy their appetites and to diversify into some 120 genera, beginning more than 200 million years ago. They eventually dominated the landscape for a long run through the Cretaceous, only to die out with all nonavian dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

adapted from a New York Times article
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: April 11, 2011