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The Dinosaur Game

By: Gregory Hepburn

When reading through a rerun of a Calvin and Hobbes comic the other day, I comtemplated about a lost icon of my youth: the dinosaur plaything. Like Calvin, I loved dinosaurs as a kid. When I was six years old the Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the most remarkable creatures that ever lived. In fact, the Tyrannosaurus Rex is possibly still one of the most remarkable creatures that have ever lived, at least to me. I was spellbound by dinosaurs, and I had all sorts of dinosaur playthings, from tiny little brontosauruses to a two-foot tall T-Rex.

Maybe one of the most fascinating things to me about dinosaurs was the fact that they lived in a world that was totally different from mine. I knew my world wasn't all that exciting; in central Minnesota it went down to forty degrees below zero in the winter, but their world was one full of danger and intrigue. Huge lizards circled overhead on bat-like wings while marauders the size of my mom's car stomped through the thick jungles. Gruesome battles took place in the blazing sun while humans weren't even a blip on the radar yet. With my dinosaur playthings I reenacted these battles, screeching and screaming while the Triceratops tried to defend her nest against the gigantic aggressors (though I only had one at the time).

The world of dinosaurs has changed quite a bit since the days of my six year-old self and his dinosaur playthings. Some of them have become warm blooded (depending on who you ask), and it turns out that my beloved T-Rex was much more of a forager than a predator. Thanks to Jurassic Park the Raptor has turned out to be a bit of a superstar in the dinosaur world with his big talons, sharp teeth, and large brain. My beloved Brontosaurus is no more; it turns out that his gigantic fossil was actually a wrongly classified Apatosaurus fossil. The world that they exist in within my mind is still the same though, filled with foreign screeches and howls, and rife with struggles between massive creatures. The dinosaur playthings don't interest me quite so much anymore; they've been replaced by the mystery of their namesakes' vanishing. Why did so many gigantic creatures, creatures which virtually ruled the earth, get swept off the planet? The question seems especially urgent since we pretty much rule the earth now (or at least we'd like to think so) so what's going to happen to us? Perhaps Calvin has the answer.

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Gregory Hepburn is an online marketer and entrepreneur who builds and publishes content websites. His latest website on Toys has been published. Please see www.educational-toy-and-game.com for more information.

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