Tag Archives: T. Rex

The Six-Year-Old Watches Cartoons: “Superman Episode 3: The Arctic Giant” (1942)

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

Every Sunday afternoon (at least, every Sunday that we can manage it), our family clusters on the couch with a bowl of fresh-popped popcorn and proceeds to haggle over our Sunday Afternoon Movie. Sometimes we pick a classic movie, like … Continue reading →

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How to Catch a Polar Region Allosaurus

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

By The 4-Year-Old Dress in something flashy for camouflage. Red shirts are best. They will distract the Allosaurus into thinking you’re dead. Set dinosaur baits in various places in the Allosaurus’s known stomping grounds (see Figure 1). Wait for a … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Reason to Hate Laundry and Other News of the Week

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

From Science News for Kids comes reason #514 to hate doing laundry: Washing your clothes can pollute the ocean, even if you live far from the coastline.  According to a study by Mark Browne, an environmental scientist at University College … Continue reading →

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“Could sauropods swim?”

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

Last week, while watching the 1925 movie The Lost World, a lively debate broke out at Caterpickles Central about whether or not sauropods could swim. I will spare you the less informed arguments generated in our playroom in favor of … Continue reading →

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“Could a T. Rex lift a woolly mammoth?”

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Well, no. T. Rex lived 65-80 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous Period. The first woolly mammoth didn’t appear until millions of years later, in the Pleistocene. So the T. Rex would never have gotten the chance. But what … Continue reading →

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Messy Eaters

My daughter, handing me her T. Rex puppet: “Mommyo, will you tie this bib on the T-Rex? You have to put bibs on them before they eat, because they are such messy eaters.”

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Last Dinosaur Before Mass Extinction Discovered

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

OK, so the odds are that this guy wasn’t actually the very last dinosaur on the planet before the mass extinction, but it makes for a good headline. (Isn’t it wonderful how facts can be misconstrued so succinctly?) But I … Continue reading →

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“Why did they think T. Rex stood with his tail on the ground?”

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

The Museum of Science in Boston boasts two life-size statues of the T. Rex. The one in the permanent dinosaur exhibit stands in the now-classic T. Rex pose: the predator in mid-stride with head forward, jaws open, and tail aloft … Continue reading →

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