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PALEOPALS© PalaeoPals© are friends of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. They are people - little, big or in between - who are interested in and want to know more about the different kinds of life on Earth from the far distant past. If you want to be a PalaeoPal©, fill in the form below and send us your details. Please take the time to tell us about any particular area of interest you have, and what you would like to see on this site. We'd also like to have your photograph and any artwork you'd like to share with other PalaeoPals©. And remember - it doesn't matter how old or how young you are: you can be a PalaeoPal©. JOSHUA VILJOEN Our first PalaeoPal© is 10-year-old JOSHUA VILJOEN from Johannesburg, South Africa. He is in Standard 1 (or Grade 3) at King's School in Bryanston, he loves Maths, and he has been a dinosaur fan since he was two years old. Let Joshua tell you himself why he likes palaeontology so much. I like dinosaurs because they ruled the Earth, as well as dinosaurs were fascinating creatures and you can learn a lot from them. I also think that they are very lovely, and there is so much information to find out about dinosaurs that it's hardly possible for one person to know all the information there is. I have loved dinosaurs since I was two years old, when I got a fluffy little dinosaur toy and I used to sleep on a dinosaur pillow. I also love the fact that there are still some dinosaurs left on the Earth: they are birds, and there are also crocodiles. (Joshua is quite right about the birds and the crocodiles, by the way. They are both members of the ARCHOSAUR (Ar-ko-sore) family, the group to which dinosaurs belonged. Crocodiles branched off the dinosaur line more than 250 million years ago. Birds are much more recent relatives, who branched off about 80 million years ago.) Here is Joshua's picture of our featured dinosaur in the UNEARTH INFORMATION section: Massospondylus. Thank-you, Joshua, for being our first PalaeoPal©. Keep on reading and finding out about dinosaurs and other prehistoric life. * Become a PalaeoPal ©Copyright Prime Origins 2001 CONTACT BRETT HILTON-BARBER primeorigins.co.za is an iafrica.com Private Label site

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