About Dinosauria Network

Dinosaurs are a fascinating group of organisms and we live in dinosaur-crazy times. We watch dinosaur sitcoms and soap operas; we endure "Barney"; we absorb dinosaur documentaries on dinosaur extinctions, dinosaur descendants, dinosaur habits, and all else dinosaurian.

We have thrice feasted on the Jurassic Park movies. Godzilla - not quite a dinosaur, but then not obviously anything else either - has returned episodically since 1954. We enjoy dino toys, and savor dino candy while surfing a kaleidoscope of dino websites. There are coloring books, erasers, stickers, refrigerator magnets, wooden and plastic models, bed sheets, clothes... and we are not even discussing the dino paraphernalia available in museum gift shops.

Tabloids fill us with the latest dinosaur "research," and new dinosaur books appear almost faster than we can count them. Even a few paleontologists have become minor media personalities.

In this multi-media feeding frenzy of things dinosaurian, the science can become lost. What we must remember is that science is a process and not a static solution. What may be regarded as generally true today, may become ancient history in light of a new discovery. The truth is only such until it is proven to be otherwise. The truth about our past directly reflects our understanding of the present.

Here at Dinosauria.net, we remain passionately convinced that, when properly understood, dinosaurs illuminate not only the past but also the present.