Cuddly Plush Dinosaurs
Nov. 19th, 2024 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Scrolling through the Natural History Museum's online gift shop looking for Christmas presents for kids.
Adorable soft toys.
Representing Species still extant and species long gone....
How about a cuddly plush spinosaurus?
When I was a kid and going through the Natural History Museums shop looking for a dinosaur-related gift for myself the best thing I could come up with was a paperback book entitled "Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles". It had a few black and white illustrations and sat on my bookself- unread- for decades. It was a scholarly treatise. Dry, dry dry. Dry as old bones- plus footnotes. Museums in the 1950s were for serious people not kids.
If I remember correctly the big thing in the main exhibition hall was a mock up of a Blue Whale. Later it was replaced by the skeleton of a huge herbivore. Now, assuming I'm up to date, the whale is back- only in skeleton form.
Oh look, a cuddly plush Dodo. My heart gives a little leap. My love for dodos is infused with regret.
And guilt
We can't be blamed for the dinosaurs going extinct but the dodo is a different matter....
Adorable soft toys.
Representing Species still extant and species long gone....
How about a cuddly plush spinosaurus?
When I was a kid and going through the Natural History Museums shop looking for a dinosaur-related gift for myself the best thing I could come up with was a paperback book entitled "Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles". It had a few black and white illustrations and sat on my bookself- unread- for decades. It was a scholarly treatise. Dry, dry dry. Dry as old bones- plus footnotes. Museums in the 1950s were for serious people not kids.
If I remember correctly the big thing in the main exhibition hall was a mock up of a Blue Whale. Later it was replaced by the skeleton of a huge herbivore. Now, assuming I'm up to date, the whale is back- only in skeleton form.
Oh look, a cuddly plush Dodo. My heart gives a little leap. My love for dodos is infused with regret.
And guilt
We can't be blamed for the dinosaurs going extinct but the dodo is a different matter....
