Wasn't Spreepark used in the film Hanna?

Wouldn't "Roller Coaster" be a better translation for Achterbahn?

@1 YES! http://www.focusfeatures.com/slideshow/h…

@2 that's the American title listed, so I don't think it's meant to be a direct translation.

I've wondered since I was a kid how paleontologists new that the bones of smaller dinosaurs were positively a different species and not just younger (or simply smaller) versions of an already-known species. I can't help but feel a little validated.

@4

uh huh.

@4: For a lot of people, it was the glamor of being able to claim a new species or genus for their own.
Of course, back in the day, we didn't know how dinosaurs grew and matured, thinking of them more as like reptiles than as like birds.

Dinosaur news is the best news.

The news about the juvenile groups make sense. Juveniles of many species pal around for many reasons, safety in numbers being chief. Crows and ravens hang out together in juvenile flocks until they reach an age when their skills meet the standard required to successfully mate and rear a brood. Wild colts also band together in bachelor herds until they are ready to take on stallions and establish their own family groups, the fillies stay with the harem. There is evidence that the young of great white sharks stay together in proximity of their birth mother for many years as well. It seems to be a good form of protection as well as providing opportunities to learn and mature successfully.