Re: Neoplateosaurus--most preposterous tabloid dinosaur ever?!

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

I did mourn the passing of the Weekly World News.  I still have a hard 
copy collection of their dinosaur exposes. One of the best was of NASA 
had photos of the surface of Mars and it was covered with dinosaurs. 
This was accompanied by an illustration that was a photo turned to 
drawing via photoshop of a mass of Amblyrhynchus (Galapagos iguana) 
basking on rocks.  Glad they are archived, I always thought a collection 
of those reports would make an amusing book.  My thanks to Ben Creisler 
for bringing the archive to our attention.  Will someone create a valid 
taxon named Neoplateosaurus.

Dan



On 2/1/2012 9:21 AM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Ben Creisler wrote:
> > Google Books has archived the infamous sensationalist tabloid Weekly
> > World News. Needless to say, there are a wealth of dinosaur “news”
> > stories. Type in the query "Weekly World News dinosaur" in Google
> > Books and see what pops up....
> >
> > The stories range from absurd tales of scientists being eaten by
> > living dinosaurs to items clearly based on actual scientific work
> > (such as a story about dinosaurs making calls that sounded like
> > trombones).
>
> My fav that I saw on the news stands when it appeared
>
> http://squidblog.mu.nu/archives/saddamwmd.jpg
>
> Saddam's killer dinosaurs attacking troops...
>
>
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