a pet peeve

ROOOAAARRR! A Pet Peeve.

Apologies for the late posting today. Daylight savings time always messes with me for a day or so.

Anyway, here is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I’ll be a good educator and use it in a sentence.

There are no four legged dinosaurs. There are no four legged terrestrial vertebrates. None. Not a one.

There are however four limbed dinosaurs and other animals (quadrupeds).

Recall that hip we discussed last week? That’s right. The forelimbs connect to a shoulder.

Perhaps that will clear up the idea in your mind about how I stated that dinosaur legs went straight down from their bodies? Well, the quadruped dinos could have elbows bent out to the sides a bit. (Triceratops)

What is your pet peeve?

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About Jenny Herdman Lando

"I have always loved dinosaurs. I never dreamed that one day I would work at AMNH as a paleontology educator and yet, I do." Jenny was born and raised in the heart of New York City. She earned her teaching degree at Skidmore College, and her MSEd in Science Education at Hunter College. She has taught in a variety of classrooms and informal educational settings. A few times a year she is an online course instructor for Seminars on Science, an online forum for educators to gain current undersstndings of the sciences. When Jenny is not teaching, she can usually be found roaming the halls of art museums and small galleries exploring her love of art and art history. She volunteers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a research librarian one day a month. At other times she is found with a book in her hand. She adores her husband Alex. They met at the AMNH on the softball team, named aptly enough, the Raptors. Jenny is currently a SAHM with their children Nora and Josie. Jenny also loves shopping on Etsy, scrapbooking and traveling to different cities.

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