Tuesday, September 09, 2008

leaping into prehistoric times...

Alan and  I decided that we should study the only 2 pages of dinosaur eras in the sampler booklet we have on our children's LeapPad after the kids were tucked in bed. 

We stumbled at one mouthful of word which we couldn't quite understand... 

It sounded like 
"an 'esteminosoccus' skull" to me. 

Tonight, we decided to hit wikipedia to do our "research" after the kids went to bed. After trying to spell this mouthful of latin name in vain, we decided to type in keywords to search, i.e. mammal like creature, trilobite (since this creature was found about 250 MYA during the times of trilobites). 

We finally got a hit: 
I leave the reading to you. 

2 comments:

Alcovelet said...

You know what, Bryan, you'll love Changi Beach in Singapore. We're apparently one of the habitats of the horseshoe crab, one of the descendants of the trilobytes. They haven't changed much for 250m years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

bACk in GERMANY said...

Wow... So Aunty Adeline, can RK come with me to explore too?