When Dinosaurs Roamed America preview

[Dino Guy and Computer Gal <gbabcock@best.com>]

Dinosaur lovers, if you have a Discovery Channel Store in your
neighborhood, and you just can't wait to see some of "When Dinosaurs
Roamed America," I invite you to loiter at your local Discovery store.
I caught several minutes of the apparently lengthy promo on a video
monitor at the store near me.  There are two things I especially like:
fuzzy dromaeosaurs and therizinosaurs for the first time ever in a
documentary, and the camera moving in to give an x-ray view of pertinent
skeletal details.  The dinosaurs look hairy rather than feathery, but
it's still a big improvement in my opinion.  (Snippets from the show
were also on the big screen in the form of a trailer at my local theater
prior to a screening of "Evolution," the Ivan Reitman comedy).  Can
feathery oviraptorosauroids be far behind?

One may preorder the videos at the Discovery Channel web site or in the
stores.  It looks like the stores will be able to get you VHS copies
soonest, around July 16th according to my local Discovery Channel
store.  I was told that the DVD release will take an extra week.  The
web site states that it ships either medium around July 21.

-- Ralph W. Miller III   ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu

No, they're not paying me to write this.