Dinosaurs!

We visited the museum yesterday. There were a lot of interesting displays there, but I was most interested in the dinosaurs.


These two were at the entrance to the exhibit:



This one's name was Eric, just like me!


He was named after a Monty Python sketch. Strange, but awesome, choice.


Though my favorite dinosaur, the ankylosaurus, was absent, one of its close relatives was there:


Here's our current interpretation of what the velociraptor looked like. I think it looks a bit silly.


This display was pretty cool. I call it t-rex two-face:


It invited you to put your head inside. It was pretty creepy.


Lastly, we made our own dinosaur using presets on a computer. Do you think our dinosaur would survive?


Yeah, probably not.

Australia Report One: Australia Can Be A Scary Place

Our second day here, Amanda and I visited Wildlife World and the Sydney Aquarium.


So I had some idea of Australia's reputation for dangerous animals, but I still managed to learn a few things during this trip. Australia has the most deadly spider, the funnel web.


It is also home to the top three most venomous snakes in the world.


Here's number two:


And number one:


Here are the one's I didn't know about. According to Guinness, Australia has the most dangerous bird in the world.


What is it? The cassowary.


It also has the largest cockroach on earth. Not dangerous, but certainly interesting.


I'd like to think that the cuddly, mostly harmless indigenous species of Australia are Gods way of apologizing for all these deadly ones.



Tomorrow: dinosaurs!