I feel a little like Dorothy right now sans ruby red slippers. Along the way I made new friends, and caught up with others. This weekend was full of entertainment and new discoveries. I wasn’t off to see the wizard for this particular post, but off to see the dinosaur exhibit at Science City, here in great old KCMO. It takes you on an impressive walk through interactive displays, fossils, factoids and a load of animatronic dinos. I went on Saturday afternoon for $13.50. It was worth the money paid if you like learning about the history of the world.
What was most surprising to me was that the exhibit sets out to convince you that what you thought you knew about dinos may not be true. They seem to have found proof that some dinosaurs may have been covered in fur and feathers. Take for example the T-Rex so famously pictured in Jurassic Park. They have evidence that suggests that juvenile T-Rexs had feathers on their bodies until adulthood. They gave an example of what we’ve always thought a T-Rex looked like and the new theory with feathers. It was amazing the differences.
Another surprising feather clad dino were velociraptors, which were also in Jurassic Park. Evidence suggests that these guys were a bit shorter, stockier in appearance than first thought and also had feathers.
To be able to compare your own size to the leg bone of one of these massive creatures is something that puts things into perspective a bit. If these guys were still around. It would be no doubt as to who would be on top of the food chain. To stand next to a model of a T-Rex and realize that you’re only as tall as the heel of his foot is proof enough for me that our place and lives here are pin pricks in the fabric of time. These guys were cool to look at but I wouldn’t have liked to meet one.
Now as I started this weekend I’m back in the same spot, AC blasting, laying in my bed and realizing just as Dorothy did, there’s no place like home. *Cue music* be it ever so humble there’s no place like home
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