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Dino toys and mistakes



The recent postings about dino models and toys moves me to relate a recent
occurence. A grandmother drove her grandson forty miles to the Natural
Science Center on a mission. The boy's teacher had given him a small plastic
dinosaur and instructed him to do a report on it. 
This thing was a ceratopsian with a prominent nose horn and a single long
brow horn between its eyes. The kid was panicked because he couldn't find it
in any book. I swore to the grandmother I would call that evening with info
on the dino, but couldn't find a thing!
In the end, I admitted defeat and told them it may have been a mutated
monoclonius. Two days later, the grandmother called to tell me the teacher
had assumed the two-horned figure was a triceratops!  This, plus the
second-grade teacher who related to me her belief that dinosaurs evolved into
rhinos, gives me some concern about the state of education in North Carolina!
 By the way, does anyone have any info on the Chinese embryo that was
reported on last week? Any word on what type of dino it was?

Bill Barbour
Natural Science Center of Greensboro