Word: tyrannosaurus
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Take Crichton's dinos: unlike the dumb, drab, ponderous monsters that once graced the textbooks, his animals are smart, nimble and decked out in designer colors. The wily, vicious velociraptors are green with tiger stripes of bright red. Tyrannosaurus rex is the hue of dried blood. And a dino called Carnotaurus sastrei is a superchameleon, its skin capable of taking on the look of anything--a leafy branch, a stone wall or even a chain-link fence...
...watered-down version of the budget amendment that did not include one of their favorite aspects: a requirement that any future tax increases would have to be approved by a three-fifths majority in both houses. In the Speaker's office, under an ornate chandelier and the inflatable toy Tyrannosaurus rex with an American flag in its claw, Gingrich held forth on the subject of unity. But the only way he eventually got it was by promising the freshmen an amendment of their own on the tax issue...
They were mean and bloodthirsty, sure, but such dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus rex may well have had a more caring side. The clue is the discovery of a fossilized embryo from a carnivorous dinosaur: an oviraptor found in Mongolia. The embryo was lodged in a nest, which also contained bones from other tiny dinos that mother oviraptor might have eaten while watching over her sharp- toothed darlings. Apparently even prehistoric monsters knew how to parent...
Anyone who shuddered through Jurassic Park would never use the words motherly or nurturing to describe the movie's prehistoric villains -- especially not the vicious velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus rex that slashed their way across the screen. But those beasts may have had a softer side that moviegoers never...
Norell is planning a return next summer to the Gobi, where there are undoubtedly more surprises awaiting. Jurassic Park 2 may have to take into account the mounting evidence that Tyrannosaurus and its kin resembled nesting robins -- albeit big robins with sharp teeth and really bad tempers...