From our Paleontology Department
Please indulge me one more Mommy-post today. Sometimes this blog is the only way to communicate with our family with all the time differences and all!
We have had some pretty high-creativity days around here lately, which is particularly gratifying because schools are in session for the foreigners here and we have made a family decision not to send Myles to formal school just yet. If he were in school we wouldn't be having all this fun, right? (As a side note, Myles has taken to telling people, strangers even, "I am considering being homeschooled." Oh are you now?)
So he was playing with his clay and instead of the usual abstract Henry Moore-like sculptures, he started discovering fossils. I have joked that he is our Chief Vertebrate Paleontologist, and he really earned that title. At first he was finding just a hip bone of a Tyrannasaurus, and vertebrae from a Diplodicus, and eggs from this other dinosaur. He molded them up and brought them proudly to me, each "discovery." Then he announced that he had discovered a new dinosaur. And then another. In the end he had "identified" and named two new dinosaurs based on the "more complete" fossils.
The first was the Prachtiachtasaurus. It was found in France. It was a Jurassaic period dinosaur. The second was a Putiachtosaurus. It is believed it lived among Iguandon herds. Definitely Cretaceous.
We have had some pretty high-creativity days around here lately, which is particularly gratifying because schools are in session for the foreigners here and we have made a family decision not to send Myles to formal school just yet. If he were in school we wouldn't be having all this fun, right? (As a side note, Myles has taken to telling people, strangers even, "I am considering being homeschooled." Oh are you now?)
So he was playing with his clay and instead of the usual abstract Henry Moore-like sculptures, he started discovering fossils. I have joked that he is our Chief Vertebrate Paleontologist, and he really earned that title. At first he was finding just a hip bone of a Tyrannasaurus, and vertebrae from a Diplodicus, and eggs from this other dinosaur. He molded them up and brought them proudly to me, each "discovery." Then he announced that he had discovered a new dinosaur. And then another. In the end he had "identified" and named two new dinosaurs based on the "more complete" fossils.
The first was the Prachtiachtasaurus. It was found in France. It was a Jurassaic period dinosaur. The second was a Putiachtosaurus. It is believed it lived among Iguandon herds. Definitely Cretaceous.
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