PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures.
But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away.
Full article here - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/ ... wanted=all
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An ye harm none, do what ye will....
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Flies in the face of science. Nuh-uh.
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well, gosh, it must be true. It's in a museum. 
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Pinky;622470 wrote: I'm convinced that some form of human was about when dinosaurs existed. Maybe not the human form we know now, but still imbued with human qualities and on it's way to evolving. I don't know why I think this as there is no evidence, but I just always have.
They miss by about 62 million years - Lucy, the oldest known human ancestor, is barely 3 million years old.
How does it feel to be the oldest known human ancestor? :yh_rotfl
They miss by about 62 million years - Lucy, the oldest known human ancestor, is barely 3 million years old.
How does it feel to be the oldest known human ancestor? :yh_rotfl
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Bryn Mawr;624620 wrote: They miss by about 62 million years - Lucy, the oldest known human ancestor, is barely 3 million years old.
How does it feel to be the oldest known human ancestor? :yh_rotfl
:wah: :wah: :wah:
lucy lastic answer the question
How does it feel to be the oldest known human ancestor? :yh_rotfl
:wah: :wah: :wah:
lucy lastic answer the question