The Great Petrolacosaurus, King of the Carboniferous Era

This one is for Santa because it's getting time to start thinking about Santa. I think I want to ask him for a trampoline this year. But not a above ground trampoline because I saw on the news day after tomorrow that a trampoline in our neighborhood got blown away in a tornado. I want a trampoline like the kids' that's in the ground.

I was thinking about the Carboniferous Era and not a lot of people know about that time. That was before the dinosaurs and it was the time of the great insects. Did you know there was a millipede that was ten years long. It could stand up like a cobra and fight other insects. But it didn't do so well against the petrolacosaurus. That was one of the very first reptiles ever. That millipede may have armor, but his belly is soft and unprotected. All you have to do is flip him over.

When the end of the great insect time was over, the great time of the reptiles beginned and one of the first ones was petrolacosaurus. What an excellent reptile!

[Dad's Note: An excellent reptile indeed! The "above-ground" trampoline that Bridger mentions was a neighbors that was the victim of a small tornado here last week.]