The ostrich was based on a life-sized model donated by Alex Trebeck (god only knows what he was doing with a giant ostrich; supposedly it used to stand in his foyer which is...creepy). The dinosaur was not based on anything more than a superficial morphological resemblance to said ostrich. Science!
A fun (slightly-related) Zoo anecdote:
One day, while traipsing around the Zoo, one of my fellow interns, Will, overheard some lady enlightening her friends on the obvious link between the triceratops and the rhinoceros:
"You can just tell they're related--just look at them."Yes ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first: Science might tell you that triceratops were prehistoric reptiles and that rhinoceroses are extant mammals, but it's just plain wrong. Rhinoceroses are in fact directly descended from triceratops. Yeah.
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Also, if you couldn't tell, I'm totally procrastinating. Lucky for you.
Don't even get me started on the things that this ostrich might have seen in Alex Trebek's house...
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