A dinosaur named Yonggary

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

A new movie dino is trampling habitat towards a theater near you.
>From the Associated Press, 8/10/99, by Christopher Torcha:

>  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - He's taller than a skyscraper, 
>  breathes fireballs past rows of razor-sharp teeth and swats U.S. 
>  military helicopters as though they were pesky gnats.
>  
>  No, it's not Godzilla. It's ``Yonggary,'' the monstrous star of 
>  a South Korean movie whose creators hope will be just as famous.
>  
>  The destructive dinosaur has plenty of fans on his own turf. At least
>  1 million South Koreans, most of them children, have seen Yonggary, 
>  which means "dragon's chest" in Korean.
<SNIP>
>  The Yonggary plot is as follows: a self-serving paleontologist 
>  digs up a set of dinosaur fossils. The dinosaur comes to life, 
>  fulfilling an ancient prophecy. He stomps on a few cities and routs 
>  the U.S. military.

This happens every day in the life of a paleontologist, and special
graduate courses address just these preparedness possibilities.  

Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com