Comments on: Jurassic school assembly

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:17:22 +0000

Scaring little kids is funny.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:05:01 +0000

Will this be on the standardized test? If not, then it has no curricular value and should not be in school. These children should be sitting still and quiet in desks learning from Texas State School Board approved books which had been vetted by concerned Creationist members of the community.

I fear for the youth of our nation.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:14:53 +0000

That is amazing! For a few seconds, I didn’t even notice the man’s legs coming out the bottom and thought it might have been some very advance animotronics (advanced as in, standing on its own instead of having an extra support system).

I would have loved going to an assembly like that when I was in grade school.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:25:21 +0000

How funny. I wanted to be a paleontologist when i was a child, but then i changed my mind and now i’m studying astronomy.
About the video, What could happen if someone dressed like that awaits you in a dark alley at night?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:29:38 +0000

THAT is what they should have at Halloween Horror Nights. It would be horrifying.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:15:29 +0000

omg… I want to see 50 of these running down the street at dragoncon.

By: flip

flip — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:32:05 +0000

#25, Jess Tauber

Actually the puppets from this show are mainly animatronics.

#26, Jub

This video is of one of the puppets from the show.

#49 Shane and everyone else

The puppet is from ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’, and is an Australian-made production. It’s returning to Oz for the first time in a few years.
dinosaurlive.com

By: shane

shane — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0000

From the very first seconds of the vid I could tell the video was shot in Oz. Apparently the school is in Bondi. I really truly hope this show is still going in 5 years when my daughter starts school. Knowing it is here in Sydney is awesome.

By: jess tauber

jess tauber — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:42:51 +0000

Re chris y (post 33), My guess is that TRex had lovely breath right up there with Komodo Dragons and old lions or tigers, only lots worse.

This was a matter of courtesy for the prey- as they would pass out from the stench before the first bite.

There is some paleontological controversy in certain quarters as to whether theropods were venomous. Thank God birds lost their teeth! Polly wanna paralyze you….

By: catgoddess

catgoddess — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:42:30 +0000

Oh man, how cool! That is a really great idea…can I have one for Halloween, mom??? Huh, Pleeeeeezzzeeee???

By: PayasYouStargaze

PayasYouStargaze — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:35:34 +0000

I’m really annoyed that I put a website link in my name once and it keeps sneaking back in there.

By: Mike Torr

Mike Torr — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:15:19 +0000

What happened to the blog page just now? Weird.

OK, cool video… and whoever is in that suit is VERY fit!

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:01:40 +0000

Fantastic!

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:30:50 +0000

@42, fastpathguru:

“And a Jesus sitting in the saddle.”

Or a bearded zebrafish expert!

By: fastpathguru

fastpathguru — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:06:09 +0000

Not realistic at all. Needs a saddle. And a Jesus sitting in the saddle.

By: EKunsman

EKunsman — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:38:46 +0000

I laughed so hard over this and the comments, I’m still wiping the tears from my eyes. Sue the T-Rex at the Field Museum in Chicago Twitters and is very funny. Last time I was in Chicago, I saw one of these at a baseball game and walking the Mag Mile, advertising her exhibit.

By: toasterhead

toasterhead — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:23:11 +0000

Perhaps I’m cynical from arguing with creationists all the time, but the first thing I think of when I watch that video is “great, another prop for the Creation Museum to hijack.” I can just picture them taking costumes like this on tour around the country to demonstrate how velociraptors ate vegetables and let Adam and Eve ride them like horses before the fall.

On the other hand, one could corner the trick-or-treat market with that Halloween costume.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:22:39 +0000

Phil, when my Son was three, he knew and could accurately enunciate the names of most known dinos.

These days, he’s a senior software engineer at Apple.

So, MAYBE you’d have gone for paleontology,,,or maybe you’d be working for Apple too,,,

Hummm, maybe this is a good posting for this link,,,

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/04/video-birds-evolve-to-fight-cuckoos/1?csp=Tech

,,,about evolution in action,,,

Gary 7

By: PayasYouStargaze

PayasYouStargaze — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:42:41 +0000

Poor king of the tyrant lizards. Reduced to entertaining children. Sweet, innocent, delicious children. This cannot possibly go wrong.

OK now seriously, that is very cool and must have inspired a few of those kids into natural history.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:17:19 +0000

SHAME! Shame shame shame on those school administrators!

Now those children, when the time displacements hit, or when the the inevitable genetic engineering experiment goes awry, or when the hidden valley in the Antarctic is revealed by global warming, or when the underground warren protected over millions of years is opened through an inadvertent mining accident, etc. etc.

Those poor children will not run when they see the T-rex or other similarly structured predator, they will squeal in terrified delight as it moves towards them. Then they will squeal in horror for other reasons.

FOR SHAME portraying dinosaurs in such a friendly light.

Be wary of the tall grass my friends, be wary…

By: Kaylen

Kaylen — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:10:54 +0000

I want to take off running in a mall with that suit on…

By: Timmy

Timmy — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:55:08 +0000

My dinosaur suit would have a jet pack, rocket launchers, and a flux capacitor. Not that I’ve thought about it, much. Actually, I think about it every day.
Sigh

By: The Early List – April 14, 2011 « It's Early To Me

The Early List – April 14, 2011 « It's Early To Me — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:23:32 +0000

[...] First, via the Bad Astronomy blog, we have the best school assembly ever. [...]

By: chris y

chris y — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:42:59 +0000

Lovely. Of course what they never include in these reconstructions is what Tyrannosaur breath must have smelled like.

By: Nomæd

Nomæd — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:13:14 +0000

Awesome idea for Halloween