Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 31, 2017

I can hardly imagine a dinosaur in “Jurassic Park” roaring like a bike horn to frighten someone.

When you think about it, fuzzy pink dinosaurs would be kind of cool.

They’ll still rip your lungs out Jim.

I just read an article where new research shows a whole family of dinosaurs was shifted onto another branch of the evolution tree. This branch leads to birds, and among other things clarifies the feather issue: in the new theory feathers evolved once, rather than separately on two different branches.

A whole set of new relatives to meet over Thanksgiving dinner.

They needed to appeal to a younger audience.

Keep going, Petey, you are making it really exciting for Alice.

If you’ve ever taken a good look at a Great Blue Heron, the link between dinosaurs and birds is pretty obvious.

I liked it better when people thought dinosaurs looked like big lizards. Not that there’s anything wrong with birds.

Pink? Probably not, but orange and brown and black and white could be their coloration. Comparing the feathers and their modern equivalents as to color it does help them decide the probably color of the scales and the feathers.

Alice is a child of her generation. Alas.

Like Petey, I am of an earlier era, in which I was informed—by information from a world-class natural history museum—about dinosaurs that were like Petey’s; big, mud-colored, lumbering behemoths! —Like the Thunder Lizard, brontosaurus. Now for some he does not even exist.

And I still accept Pluto as a ninth planet, too, as the Old Astronomy taught me!