Jose Luis Sanz. Author of 13 books about dinosaurs and lecturer in Spain, Argentina, USA, Portugal, France, China and Tunisia, Jose Luis Sanz presents these giants that both fascinate and form part of popular culture. And it does between references to the Simpson’s and the movies.
- When they began to lure the dinosaurs?
“In the late 50s with the film Beautiful ancient times, which is a monster who arrives in New York and starts eating people, like the dinosaurs that were fledged. I started looking around my bones home Scoria. I found, although a good collection of fossils. He was 10.
“You said that eating a chicken we eat a dinosaur …
“Indeed, we are eating a dinosaur. A group of dinosaurs called theropods maniraptora , the velociraptors of Spielberg’s films are very close relatives to birds.
- Spielberg’s came into vogue?
“They were discovered by British scientists in the first half of the century. He organized a show with a huge palace surrounded by steel statues that were not right. The concept fascinated giant reptile. It sold like hotcakes drawings and models of these bugs.
“The embryo of theme parks.
“And the dinomania, an inordinate appetite for dinosaurs. Like a boy or a girl who has her room with posters of Messi or Raul, some people have lined his bedroom dinosaurs.
- What is false in the parks?
“In Spain, which is more like it Dinopolis a worthy institution. The dinosaurs you can see them from a scientific standpoint and from outside. Is knowledge of the imagination, creativity.
- Do you have a favorite dinosaur?
In the first part of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs sick three huge horns.
- Which sites work?
-Castellon and Portugal. In Cuenca, in two fields: The Hoyas and the hollow, where we got 8000 bones. The idea is to be the basis of a dinosaur museum.
