Saturday, December 06, 2003

First Post

All the good URL names were taken. First choice: Pangaea, taken. Then: Gondwanaland, also taken etc. etc. Finally settled on Bagaraatan:

"Bagaraatan, (meaning "small hunter") was a speedy, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur. This theropod was about 11.5 feet long and dates from the late Cretaceous period. An incomplete skeleton was found in Mongolia and was named by paleontologist Osmolska in 1996."

Thanks to
ZoomDinosauers.com for name and description.

A suggestion of time immeasurably greater than our own. Pronounced BHAG-ah-RAH-tahn, it sounds cool, pre-dates the catastrophic rise of homo NON sapiens on this planet by millions of years, and suggests a humorous verisimilitude: hungry, bipedal, meat eating humans, running around feverishly looking for their next meal. Which leads us to.....

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