Ray Harryhausen passes away

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

Greetings,

Just heard that the great stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen has passed away:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103886

I know that for a sizeable fraction of our community  of a certain age, 
Harryhausen's animated fossil animals (and other creatures)
were the closest thing we saw in childhood to ancient creatures coming to life.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216                        
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661               

Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843

Mailing Address:        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                        Department of Geology
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                        University of Maryland
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