Indianapolis, Indiana has a great Children's Museum that might be better described as a very child-friendly science museum. There's a life-sized
Brachiosaurus standing outside the building trying to keep her baby from falling into the atrium!
Downstairs is a small but spectacular dinosaur hall, featuring a pair of
Tyrannosauruses attacking a
Triceratops.
And there's the museum's own
Gorgosaurus, a smaller and earlier tyrannosaur, found on a museum-sponsored dig. It had a broken leg that healed improperly, and a scan of the skull revealed that it suffered from a brain tumor that would have affected its balance and ability to run.
And this is
Dracorex hogwartsia, or "Dragon King of Hogwarts," so named because the thing looked like a dragon, I guess, and the paleontologists who found it were fantasy fans. Guess what? It was a herbivore.
And now you know a little bit more about what kind of nerd I am.
