Kids Want to Know: What Does the President Think About Space Dinosaurs?

Every day, President Barack Obama takes on tough political questions, but what does he think about space dinosaurs? That is what Steven, an 11-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri, would most like to know. In a new book containing children's letters to the president, Kids' Letters to President Obama, Steven considers whether dinosaurs could survive beyond our upper atmosphere;

Are space dinosaurs real? I think not, because for one, it’s really unlikely for a dinosaur to be alive and not have to breathe oxygen, but my uncle believes in them.

I'm sure NASA will get right on searching for space dinosaurs if they haven't found some already.

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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.