I saw a kid buy a fossil tooth in a shop recently. Talk about excited, she could hardly contain herself! It came in a small plastic box with a white snap-on base just like the ones I got back in the Triassic!
It reminded me just how much I loved Dinosaurs and fossils as a junior Paleontologist. I told everyone I wanted to be one back in the Sixties. I didn't though. Become one that is.
[anyone out there one readers?]
With the passion only a child geek can give, I adored those thunder lizards and got hold of anything I could, short of an Anklyosaurus living at home.
I had fossils in cases, ancient shark teeth, ammonites, Pyro and Revel models and posters. But above all I had books. Books and dinosaurs went together like sherbert and liquorice. I loved 'em!
I had loads of book on Dinosaurs, some fossil tomes and a brace of Early Man volumes. I shall have to dig them out.
I also had a fossil hunting set, which I got one Christmas. It came in a box with a T. Rex skeleton on the cover. Inside was a small hammer, a magnifying glass and a black and white booklet on collecting fossils and recognising dinosaurs. For the life of me I can't remember what the set was called, who it was by and have never seen it again.
Were you a dinosaur nut readers?
I was fascinated by them and still am. Love the BBC's "Walking With..." series about prehistoric life.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great series. Did you like Jurassic Park when it first came out?
DeleteI liked it in parts but the monsters chasing people bit got dull fairly quickly. Some of the visuals are great though.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. I've never looked at an impact tremor in quite the same way since though!
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