Why are dinosaurs so human?

Boria Sax
19 mins ·
From Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs, chapter six: “We persistently think of dinosaurs as, in some sense, contemporaneous. . . According to a Gallup poll taken in 1990, 41 percent of Americans believe that human beings and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Human beings and dinosaurs interact with one another in comic books such as ‘Alley Oop’ and cartoons such as ‘The Flintstones’, as well as in movies like ‘Jurassic Park’. In 2008, the history channel ran a series called Jurassic Fight Club, in which two computer generated dinosaurs such as deinonychus and tenontosaurus would engage in combat, while human announcers would discuss their strategy and tactics, following the format of a boxing match. There is an entire genre of books known as ‘dinosaur erotica’, with titles like Taken by T. rex and Ravished by Triceratops. Many Christian fundamentalists believe that most dinosaurs died out about 6,000 years ago because Noah did not take them into his Ark, but he did save a few and those may still be alive today. A huge model of the Ark may be seen at the Creation Museum in Williamstown, Kentucky, complete with stalls that house model dinosaurs.” So, why are dinosaurs so human? Why are humans so dinosaur?
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Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs