Barney fans dunno dinos

A new study blames toys like Barney for misconceptions about Tyrannosaurus rex. When researchers asked children to draw the dinosaur, most gave it a posture that was far too upright. Why? They’d apparently soaked up the wrong idea from Barney. “It doesn’t matter what they see in science books,” says Warren Allmon, a paleontology professor at Cornell University and an author of the study.