Oh, wow, this is my kid in a nutshell. I was even waiting for the kid in the video to point out that it looked more like a styracosaurus (bc that's what Maddie would have said). Also, the nasal horn is too long - more like an einiosaurus.

Yay for little kids who love dinos!

She's great!

OK, I'm intimidated. Although I want her anyway.

I'm reminded of the kid I used to nanny, who, after I pointed out a bulldozer, proceeded to tell me it wasn't a bulldozer but a backhoe, and all the ways they were different.

I'm so glad you saw this, gaspode - thought of you immediately!

The capacity of kids around this age to sponge up crazy amounts of taxonomic information is fascinating. I taught a lot of kindergarten kids who had this sort of comprehensive knowledge -- dinosaurs is a very popular area of expertise, but we also had a kid who was expert on trains (every kind of train car - refrigerator, tanker, grain car, etc), and a kid who had every dog breed known to humankind logged in her brain. I was just reading about the cognitive changes that start occurring at 4,5, and 6 and it's like there's suddenly this vast capacity, this huge huge hard drive, but it's relatively empty of data - so when something starts to latch on, there's no reason not to store every little thing about it.

I'm not sure why, but:

"Would you hold this for a second, I need to go check out the others"

just absolutely kills me.