Dinosaurs tower above our small imaginations, knocking down trees and sniffing their young with roaring nostrils. Or you can imagine what it must be like to own one. A pet dino. One who, like a trained elephant, kneels gently to let you clamber up onto his back to parade the neighborhood as other kids clamor for a ride.
Kids love dinosaurs.
Grownups love them, too. I'm one of those, of course, but I've loved dinos since I was very little. After all, kids love lions and rhinos and whales and bears and other big animals. Because they're extinct, dinosaurs can be whatever a child wants them to be. Although paleontologists speculate about their behavior based on their fossil skeletons, we really don't know how dinos sounded, what they thought, how they smelled, how they slept, on and on.