From New Scientist 10th Jan, Backpages...
Dinomammoths
Feedback really doesn’t want to keep doing items about Lego. People will start to think we have an animus against the toy bricks, or that we are doing stealth marketing for them, neither of which is the case. However, palaeogeneticist Ross Barnett has drawn attention to a little book the company has produced, How to Build LEGO Dinosaurs. It contains instructions for 30 models.
A closer look reveals the issue. There are four models on the front cover, one of which is a pterosaur, which isn’t a dinosaur. We might let them off on that one, because it is, at least, an archosaur from the correct geological era. However, the back cover has a number of additional models, perhaps the most prominent being a woolly mammoth. Some of the others are a little hard to pin down (is that another pterosaur or an Archaeopteryx?), but as Barnett says, “I reckon 5/8 of the main images aren’t dinosaurs.”
Perhaps all this is pedantic, but then Feedback can think of no more pedantic an audience than 7-year-olds who are into dinosaurs. That said, full marks to the book’s creators for including instructions for a bespectacled dinosaur, Doyouthinkhesaurus. Feedback does enjoy a good dad joke, and also a bad one.
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