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Nice!
I just found out recently (from visiting La Brea Tar Pits) that dire wolves were an actual thing.
http://www.tarpits.org/museum/exhibits
Oh yes! Were you not obsessed as a kid with the tar pits (and by extension Ice Age megafauna) like I was?
I was never all that obsessed with tar pits but I do remember me and my male siblings owning almost every cheap replica of a prehistoric animal that it was possible for a kid to own back then. (For example, dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, giant sloths, saber-toothed tigers, etc.)
i was (still am a bit) completely LaBrea tar pits obsessed. when we visited, i actually scooped up some bubbling tar in an altoids tin (thanks maryann) and put a little wooly mammoth in it. sits on my science book shelf. i loved the Pits.
I loved them too. :-)
I was strictly a dinosaurs kid; I wasn’t as well-versed in Ice Age mammals. :-) I mean, I knew the greatest hits (mammoths, saber-toothed tigers) but dire wolves somehow escaped my attention.
Did you have a chance to go to AMNH during your visit? The new Titanosaur display is very impressive.
The exhibit of feathered dinosaurs kind of freaked me out. I’m pretty sure a T-Rex wasn’t the “thing with feathers” Emily Dickinson was talking about.
In an alternate universe, Emily Dickinson had a pet feathered T-Rex named Hope.
No, didn’t get there.
Yes, they were.
Then again you obviously weren’t as obsessed with prehistoric animals as I was when I was a kid. (Says the zoology geek who never heard of velociraptors prior to Jurassic Park…And who still has a hard time not using the word “brontosaurus.”)
Apparently you can still use that word if you wish.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/science/earth/the-brontosaurus-a-prehistoric-giant-is-revived-if-only-in-name.html