Week of the Sarcosuchus

Thanks to an email from Jessika, I've managed to make this the week of the sarcosuchus imperator. Friday afternoon, Jess alerted me to the latest exhibit to come visit the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History: SuperCroc. Sarcosuchus was a forty foot long, 17,000 pound giant crocodile that lived 110 million years ago and was large enough to have eaten dinosaurs.  This monster would easily have been large enough to swallow a man whole and barely notice he'd done so.  With my love of dinosaurs and giant reptiles, this is definitely an exhibit designed specifically to bring me down to Norman.  Even better, my daughter, who shares my love for such things, will be with me. Naturally, the first thing I did after making definite plans to head for Norman this coming weekend was to get ahold of the movie Supercroc (which I'm watching right now).  I know it'll be painfully awful (and it's thus far given me no reason to change me expectations), but I am a sucker for giant crocodile movies, forever hoping that somewhere in the mountain of manure, I'll come across another gem like Lake Placid or that holy grail, another Alligator. I then went and arranged for Netflix to send me the National Geographic special about the SuperCroc, so Brianna and I can watch it before heading down to see the exhibit.  Tonight we watched the first segment of Walking with Dinosaurs to see the part focusing on postosuchus, an ancient cousin of the giant.  Brianna's pretty stoked about the museum trip, and I can see us spending most of the day down there. I'll be keeping my eyes open for any more crocodilian activities we might pursue in the coming days.