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Word: triceratopses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each of the five "islands" has its own design appeal. The Lost Continent decor is instant antique: imposing Athenian edifices that seem about to crumble before your eyes. Spider-Man and his Marvel superhero pals inhabit a comic-book-bright boulevard. Toon Lagoon is haunted by old favorites from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrill Park | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

Or maybe not. An experiment described in the current Nature suggests that the huge carnivore did indeed have the most powerful bite in history. Researchers led by Gregory Erickson, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, figured that if they could reproduce the T. rex bite marks found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE MEAN BITE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

Although Sacrison describes himself as an amateur paleontologist who has never traveled outside his own time zone, he is too modest. In a sense, he has spent more time in the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, than many professionals. Since he found his first dinosaur bone, a triceratops vertebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches the Plumber and the T. Rex | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Free Willy has other attractions. Richter is an appealing, unaffected young performer; and Willy, with his black-and-white shading and fine Deco design, is a handsome brute. He's smart enough to understand complex English sentences, nodding an appropriate yes or no to Jesse's questions. And like any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Amazing. Dinosaurs live. You are there, once upon a time, before mammal walked or man dreamed. You can pet a triceratops and, if you wish, examine its droppings. You can feed a vegetarian brachiosaur, whose movements are graceful, endearing. At times the beasts (animated, mostly, by the computer - sorcerers from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jaws Ii | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

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