My obsession with dinosaurs didn’t last forever, but I’ve always had a soft spot for the Jurassic Park films and the book, which still rank among my favourites, for the Walking With Dinosaurs soundtrack which I’ll revisit from time to time, and for any news stories making the rounds on palaeontology. That doesn’t really make me unique – there are thousands, if not millions of children around the world who have obsessively memorised similar details, because dinosaurs capture the imagination these great, ancient beasts who left tantalising clues as to their lives have beguiled countless people over the last two centuries.
I didn’t just parrot “brontosaurus” at people who asked what my favourite dinosaur was, I had a comprehensive internal database of dinosaurs, the locations of their discovery, their estimated sizes and weight, the relative commonness of their remains, the suborders they belonged to, the eras they lived in, and boatloads more. When I was a child, I was the kid who liked dinosaurs.
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