Looking For a Challenge? Try Putting Together a Tinysaur

Dinosaurs are famous, at least in part, for being some of the largest animals ever to have evolved, but a new set of models called "Tinysaurs" are taking them in the opposite direction.

Available through Makers Market, the minuscule oak tag paper models come in tiny metal tins complete with glue and tweezers to help you keep them together. They are certainly more challenging than the larger wooden model kits I remember from my youth, and should you successfully assemble a Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, or (the only non-dinosaur of the group) mammoth you can proudly display your accomplishment under a mini glass dome.

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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.