What was your favourite thing when you were four years old? For some, it’s an object like a blanket or toy, a television show, or glue that’s found particularly tasty. For Stella Hatton, it’s dinosaurs. She likes them so much that she was able to prove a bunch of adults wrong.
While shopping in a toy store with her mother, Stella pointed at a toy that was labeled a “triceratops” and said that she wanted the “styracosaurus.” Once Stella was holding the box with the dinosaur toy in it, she started criticizing the model, saying that the horns were wrong, among other flaws. She insisted that the toy looked more like a styracosaurus. Her mother’s partner, Peter Laporte, videotaped Stella’s critique and posted it on YouTube.
Once on YouTube, the video was noticed by the staff at the Canadian Museum of Nature. After watching it, they mailed Stella a correct model, along with some other dinosaur trading cards and books!
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: don’t try to out-wit a four-year-old with anatomically incorrect dinosaurs.