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Newspapers & **Dinosaurs**




All:

Looks like reporters can't get anything right.  The following was printed 
in **The Catholic Review** (Baltimore MD), on the travel page for Wednesday, 
August 1995.

Quote>>
For families with elementary school-aged children, the first hidden 
treasure begins with a search for dinosaur bones.  It ends a few blocks 
from the Eastman House at the Rochester Museum and Science Center.  Up on 
the second floor, the Fairview Mastodon is on display.  The 
11,600-year-old bones, ..., are now neatly arranged and labeled.
>>endquote

Thus, in the popular press, a Mastodon is a dinosaur  (;^[)

Fred