“That’s right, son. These dinosaurs don’t fight. They teach you how to be a paleontologist, just like your old man.”

I want ‘em to fight! Make ‘em fight!

“You’ve already got so many toys that fight. These Thames & Kosmos kits teach you how scientists like me find dinosaur bones, and then how to put them together into a skeleton. Each bundle includes both an Expedition Kit and a Skeleton Kit, and you can choose to explore the pterosaur, the triceratops, or the stegosaurus. What do you think?”

Did triceratopses eat stegosauruses, Dad?

“Er, actually, son, they both ate plants. And they lived about 80 million years apart. These are exactly the kind of things you can learn from the included fact cards. I was about to call them dinosaur fact cards, but did you know that pterosaurs aren’t actually dinosaurs?”

Do they breathe fire?

“Uh, pterosaurs, you mean?”

Yeah. I want them to breathe fire like this: WSHHHH WKKKHHHH and burn up the mean dinosaurs.

“No, they didn’t.”

How do you know?

“Well, because… it’s… I… uh, I guess I don’t know for sure. Would it be more fun to put together the skeleton if they did breathe fire?”

Yes! Fire! WSHHHH WKKKHHHH Aaah! The pterosaur burned me! With his fire breathing! And I’m a mean dinosaur!

“OK, let’s say they did. That’s what’s fun about science, son: if the evidence doesn’t tell you the answer, the truth can be whatever you want.”

Back to top