dinosaurs

If someone were to ask me if I could go back to any time period, which one would I choose, I wouldn't know what to say because there are so many places I'd want to see. I'd want to see Rome and Ceaser and Vikings and Christ in Bethlehem just to see if he was really real and Emperors and Shogun in Japan and the first native Hawaiians... the list could go on and on forever, I swear. But the thing I'd like to see the most are the Dinosaurs. Cretaceous, Mesozoic, Jurassic... I'd visit them all. I'd also want to see prehistoric creatures that have evolved into the animals we know today like komodo dragons or horses or tapirs or even the common pidgeon. It'd kind of be like a Jurassic Park all over again. When I was little, I was obsessed with that movie as well as Land Before Time (maybe not all 100 billion of them, just the first one), and all sorts of Dinosaur books. Call me strange, but I even had a computer game that was all about being a photographer of Dinosaurs. You were supposed to go to a certain era and find a specific dinosaur, take their picture, and get paid according to how good the shot was. I was a dork. When Discovery Channel did the special called "Walking with Dinosaurs" I was fascinated because the computer animation was incredibly realistic. The fight between the fierce King T-Rex and a dino with the nutzest defense mechanisms like the Stegosaurs... I would pay to see those in real life as long as the T-Rex didn't go for me. I wished that I could find some way to enter the TV and become a part of Pangea, the world before it broke apart into continents.
Many people probably think I'm psycho, like a mild Timmy Treadwell... kind of. Dinosaurs are no doubt dangerous. After all, they are WILD and most have the instinct to kill or be killed. But I think dinosaurs are way cool. Though some of them have modern day ancestors like the crocodile many of them were completely unique to the age of the dinosaurs. Like the brontosaurus, the dinosaur with the really long neck, or the triceratops, the dinosaurs with 3 horns and a huge, bony head. The whole design of each creature alone is unlike anything we have today. What if we had some kind of Triceratops walking around today? I think the closest thing we have is a chameleon... an interesting creature, no doubt, but it's no triceratops. My interest in dinos was strengthened even more after taking biology and learning about natural selection and evolution in-depth. I would find it SO fascinating just to go on an excursion dedicated to the study of dinosaurs... Observe their behavior and anatomy. :( Too bad that that can never happen. If only we could clone them from blood in fosilized mosquitos trapped in amber...