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CONTEST WINNERS! . Okay! This is it! This is the big moment! Here they are! ( Play the Fanfare Now! ) a) short silly fanfare (.wav) b) Dramatic classical fanfare by Aaron Copland (midi)

Contest #1 - Raptors | #2 - Big Macs | #3 Fossils | #4 Godzilla | #5 IDM Logo Contest |

D.I.G. Contest # 4 CLOSED
GODZILLA CONTEST! Win One of 15 Prizes! Winners announced soon! New G-Factoid Clues!
Winners announced in September 1998

D.I.G. Contest # 3 CLOSED
"Who should own Fossils? Why?"
Prize - "I Dig Dinosaurs" - T. rex Excavation Kit! It weighs a ton and you can make a real mess when you play with it! From Earth-lore Ltd., Canada
Contest ended April 14, 1998
Winners Soon!
Okay. What we are going to do is to have a lottery for the prize. There were so many good answers, that we will publish them all and give the prize to whoever's name get's picked.
We'll announce that in September 1998. So be patient!
D.I.G. Contest #2 CLOSED
"How many 'Big Macs' can a T. rex Eat?"
Contest closed November 30, 1997
Gee. Nobody won this contest! Shame on you! All the answers were wrong.

WINNERS of D.I.G. Contest #1 "What is a Raptor?" CLOSED D.I.G. Contest Numero Uno (Number One) "What is a raptor?"

We suppose you would like to know the correct answer. Right? Probably not. If you are like us, y'all just want to know if you won a prize. Get with it! This is supposed to be informative and educational, so you are stuck with us! We are gonna tell you the right answer whether you like it or not. So there.

The correct answer is:

"A raptor is a bird of prey. For example, an eagle or a hawk."

There is a little bit more to it, though. In the movie of Jurassic Park, the characters refer to Velociraptors (which, in the movie, was a kind of imaginary dinosaur made up of parts of dinosaurs from a family called Dromaeosauridae -- which includes Velociraptor, Utahraptor, Dromaeosaurus, and Deinonychus) as "raptors" because it is easy to say and it is just plain kewl. A lot of paleontologists are upset about this because there is no real dinosaur called a "raptor" and a lot of folks go around calling all sorts of dinosaurs raptors. Sigh. There are dinos with "raptor" in their names: Velociraptor, Eoraptor, Oviraptor. These dinosaurs are not related, though. The "raptor" part means "thief" in Latin, so, for example, Oviraptor means "egg thief."

Another thing. There is no evidence that real dinosaurs hunted in "packs" like wolves. That was made up for the movie. It is an awesome idea, but unfortunately we do not have videos of real dinos going out for an afternoon of hunting. Work on those Time Machines, okay?

When you are playing with your kewl JP toys and having them eat your friends and your little brother/sister (only when they are annoying, right?) it is kewl to call them "raptors." But when you go to a museum and look at fossils, it is even more kewl to call them by their proper names like Velociraptor or Deinonychus. Okay? The museum guys will think you are way smart and maybe they will offer you a job. Your Mom and Dad will like that part, especially if you get paid.

Soooooooooooooo....

Here are the winners of the absolutely awesome 1 1/2 inch long dayglo plastic thingies that look sort of like dinosaurs, but are so anatomically innacurate that everybody here in the office just can't get over it! We gave an extra one to Kelly Milner Halls who writes our DinoTrekking column, and she hasn't talked to us since.

We got 22 entries mostly from the United States. These first two entries didn't win. But we love them!

"Something that is mean and he runs and eats dinosaurs then he goes and finds some other dinosaurs to eat. Raptors also eat people and they also step on houses. Raptors also put their claws up on their feet and they spike a dinosaur or a human or even eat trees. Raptors do not eat Tyrannosaurus Rexs. They are purple."

-- Nicholas Matthew Neighbors, Age 4

"A raptor is a meat eater, but smaller. It has stripes on it."

-- Danielle Bergmann, Age 4, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States

These next two didn't win either, but they are very clever, and maybe they should have won!

"The way you say what the air pressure is when you are in the ghetto: "rap - torr"

-- Casey Tucker

"The proper name of raptors are Spielbergosaur Hollywoodensis."

-- bihari@tigris.kite.hu

There were seven correct answers, so we had to pick the five answers that we received first.

Winners 5, 4, and 3 are:

qbrad -- bwitover@clarku.edu

Jeff Poling (www.dinosauria.com) (We think Jeff peeked and looked it up on his own website.

Compy07 -- joe-moro@geocities.com

Winner 2 is:

"It's a bird of prey or a pro basketball player from Toronto."

-- Randall Casebier -- RCasebier@library.uta.edu.

and

now

WINNER NUMBER 1

"1. One who performs rap music: especially from on high (from rap and tor (Middle English for highest peak, mountain); 2. Also, commonly, large bird of prey, noted for grasping talons and shiny chrome surfaces when mounted on moving vehicles named for them; 3. Slang for predatory dinosaur, often found on movie screens roughly every three or four years, usually peaking in the summer months."

-- Michael Teuton, Editor in Chief,(Wannabe), Dino Dictionary.

YAYYYYYY MICHAEL!

We will get around to mailing all of you your prizes as soon as you send us your mailing address! We are gonna try to notify you, but if we don't hear from you by the end of November, the prize will go to the next person down on the list. Lissen you don't wanna pass up having the opportunity to put one of these things on your mantelpiece. You can tell you friends you shot it on a hunting trip.

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