Rawr!

One of the perks of being a B-list sciece blogger is that people send me stuff that they would like me to promote to my dozens of readers. Such as, for example, National Geographic's very silly Dino Central Park site, where you can frighten simulated New Yorkers with simulated dinosaurs. Because... well, really, do you need a reason?

This is in connection with their Sunday dinosaur extravaganza on the National Geographic Channel. And you really can't go far wrong with shows about dinosaurs...

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Why do they think that dinosaurs roared - like lions or bears or ... other mammals.
Maybe they just went CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP, like BIG BIRDS.

Dinosaurs terrorizing New Yorkers? How unrealistic. Obviously you should be terrorizing simulated ancient Hebrews.