All Aboard the Dinosaur Train!

Dinosaurs and trains might not seem to have much in common, but the television network PBS will soon be mashing them together in a new children's show called "Dinosaur Train." Right now details are scant, but it looks like the show will be set in a computer animated world where characters will teach children about natural history and paleontology. Every now and then they will even hear from a real paleontologist, the University of Utah scientist Scott Sampson, although most of the show will feature as-yet-unannounced characters. If you can't wait to start traveling down the dinosaur track, though, you can always pick up some dinosaur shoes and make tracks of your own in the meantime.

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Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications.