The BBC Horizon series kicks off with "My Pet Dinosaur" tonight. The big question posed - "what if the meteorite had missed?". I'm interested to see how they feasibly think hominids could have evolved without all the other mammals (if there aren't apes and monkeys in this what-if world then I will be very disappointed). And why they assume that the small brown furry creatures would be the dominant intelligent lifeform over and above the highly established dinosaurs. But I shall watch with interest.
What is amusing is that the publicity shot in all the TV listings shows a young boy with a pet Deinonychus (although it will no doubt be referred to as a Velociraptor because no one has heard of Deinonychus). It's on a lead. Wholly unrealistic of course. A Deinonychus would no doubt have been banned under the Dangerous Dinosaurs Act 2006, or it would at the very least require to be muzzled in public. And declawed.
What is amusing is that the publicity shot in all the TV listings shows a young boy with a pet Deinonychus (although it will no doubt be referred to as a Velociraptor because no one has heard of Deinonychus). It's on a lead. Wholly unrealistic of course. A Deinonychus would no doubt have been banned under the Dangerous Dinosaurs Act 2006, or it would at the very least require to be muzzled in public. And declawed.
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