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VMA131Marine

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1. Dinosaurs are "real" animals, just extinct

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 09:26 AM

Mar 13

If learning about dinosaurs gets kids interested in learning about the natural world around them then I’m all for it. They constitute an important epoch in the evolution of life on earth. You can certainly make the case that dinosaurs are still around since birds are dinosaurs (Mmmm, tastes like chicken!) but the non-avian dinosaurs were around a lot longer than us apes: 165 million years to be exact so there’s actually a lot more to study.

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Here's A Thought: Instead Of Marketing Dinosaurs & Unicorns To Kids, Try Getting Them Interested In Living/Real Animals [View all] hatrack Mar 13 OP

Dinosaurs are "real" animals, just extinct VMA131Marine Mar 13 #1

That's why I wrote it as "Living/Real" - two categories, either-or . . . . hatrack Mar 13 #2