September 28, 2010
Dinosaur Sighting: Star-Spangled Theropod
A patriotic theropod in the vicinity of Beloit, Wisconsin. Photo submitted by David Rice.
Today’s Dinosaur Sighting comes to us from David Rice, who spotted this star-spangled theropod dinosaur in the vicinity of Beloit, Wisconsin. As David pointed out in his e-mail, the top half of the dinosaur is reminiscent of a tyrannosaur, but the feet have weird lumps which look like the sickle claws of the “raptors;” maybe it is some kind of hybrid. Whatever the theropod is meant to be, though, it is hardly the only patriotic dinosaur around—in previous posts we’ve featured a Stegosaurus covered in stars and stripes and “George Washasaurus.”
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Is it me or is that dinosaur doing the “running man?” Like some kind of Cretaceous MC Hammer.
I only just realized that it has exactly 13 stripes.