Word: dino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lost World, which will show up in bookstores in dino-size portions this Wednesday, might seem like a bit of backtracking for Crichton--it's the first sequel he has ever written. Crichton saw it as a challenge: "The reality is, you can't be fresh. If you're really fresh, it's not a sequel." He anticipates a critical drubbing, and probably deserves one. The book (it's six years after Jurassic Park, we're on a Costa Rican island, and the earth trembles .) has a cutting-room-floor feeling to it: outtakes. No matter; the national release...
Take Crichton's dinos: unlike the dumb, drab, ponderous monsters that once graced the textbooks, his animals are smart, nimble and decked out in designer colors. The wily, vicious velociraptors are green with tiger stripes of bright red. Tyrannosaurus rex is the hue of dried blood. And a dino called Carnotaurus sastrei is a superchameleon, its skin capable of taking on the look of anything--a leafy branch, a stone wall or even a chain-link fence...
Dinosaur babies figure prominently in The Lost World, just as they do in much current paleontological research. The recent discovery of a number of well-preserved dino nests in the western U.S. and Mongolia has convinced scientists that the terrible lizards were actually nurturing parents, watching lovingly over their hatchlings and bringing them tidbits of food, like robins tending their chicks. Crichton's creatures do the same, to the horror of at least one tidbit...
...Dino Ciccarrelli's hat trick gives Detroit a 5-1 win and a 3-0 lead in the playoff series. Page...
...DALLAS--Dino Ciccarelli's power-play goal triggered a four-goal second period and the Detroit Red Wings extended their unbeaten streak to nine games with a 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars...