A conversation from a playdate today:
6-Year-Old Dino-Geek 1, pointing at the above picture in a dinosaur book: “Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that is a dinosaur.”
Me: “I think that’s a dimetrodon” (du-MEE-tru-don) (I should say that the book was written in Chinese)
6-Year-Old Dino-Geek 1, correcting my pronunciation: “Yes, that’s a dimetrodon” (du-MEH-tru-don)
6-Year-Old Dino-Geek 2, running up to take a look: “That’s not a dinosaur. The dimetrodon lived before the dinosaurs.”
Several hours later, I decided to look it up, and here’s what I found on Wikipedia:
“Dimetrodon is often mistaken for a dinosaur or as a contemporary of dinosaurs in popular culture, but it became extinct some 40 million years before the first appearance of dinosaurs”
How do they know this stuff?
They are little walking dinopedia’s. They amaze me so much!
Lol, good question!