Messing about with empathy
Blue, the velociraptor in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, shed a tear. My hubby said that dinosaurs don’t cry. I disagreed, and then he asked if birds cried. I didn’t know but wanted to find out. As with all answers, it is complicated. Birds do have tear ducts, and they make tears to protect their eyes.…
I was coloring a dinosaur yesterday. Thanks to my cats, I finally opened my new box of 152 Crayola crayons. Since then, I’ve been doing a lot of coloring. Yesterday, it was a dinosaur scene. Coloring the sky, sun, trees was easy, but I wondered for a moment what color to make the brontosaurus. I…
Ever wish you had more hours in the day? Compared to your ancestors, you do. Earth’s rotation is slowing down, so a modern day is about 1.7 milliseconds longer than a day a century ago. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but when dinosaurs lived, a year was about 370 days long. Give it…
I watched both Jurassic World movies last weekend, and I have dinosaurs on the brain (well, that’s pretty normal for me.) I was looking up some dinosaur facts and discovered a dinosaur I hadn’t heard of. It’s a small dinosaur with a big name. Micropachycephalosaurus is the longest dinosaur name. It means “small, thick-headed lizard.”…
I tend to be a skeptic, especially about online items. When I read the heading “Dinosaurs Lived On the Other Side Of the Galaxy,” I assumed it was clickbait nonsense. But then I noticed that it was sent by IFLScience!, so I delved deeper. This heading is both true and misleading, which I suppose is…