Allosaurus

Some humans are into the "paleo" diet. I'd like to propose the ALLOSAURUS DIET: Eat whatever meat you find, warm and wriggly or dry-aged to a fine stench. Stego flank steaks crusted with hausmannia fern fronds... glyptops turtle stuffed with apatosaurus skin, a sort of reverse sushi. Any other Upper Jurassic cuisine ideas?

I began public life as a few bones in a kid's bedroom. Glad she didn't keep me there and instead sent me to a museum, unlike the fossils in this article. Thanks, India Wood and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science! I love my adoring crowds and science audience.

Inside the homes (and minds) of fossil collectors These long-extinct, fearsome creatures are turning up in living rooms and corporate offices as wealthy collectors indulge a controversial hobby.

Here's a Smithsonian photo of the new nesting allosaurus mount in the new David Koch Hall of Fossils: Deep Time. Such a motherly carnivore!