Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

So usually, when something hasn't been around for a while, we tend to forget about it.

I grew up in the age of glowworms, pogo balls, Teddy Roxpin, and Inspector Gadget.

Kids 30 years ago were totally obsessed with those things, but guess what? Many kids

today don't even know what those things are. And that was only 30 years ago. Would you believe it if I

told you that there was something that hasn't been around for 65 million years that kids and adults

always seem to be fascinated with, and they are just as interesting today as

they were when I was a little kid. Well, there is. Olivia, tell everyone what we are going to be

learning about today. This week we're getting curious about dinosaurs. Awesome. I've really been

looking forward to this episode. Why do you think kids love dinosaurs so much?

Because they're so interesting and people like to talk about it.

Yeah, I agree. So let's start this off with the question of the week.

Dinosaurs, of course, no longer exist. But there is an animal that is still around today that is considered

to be the closest living relative of the dinosaur. The question of the week is, what is the

closest living relative of the dinosaur? By the way, I should let you know that before I did

research for this episode, I had an animal in mind for the answer to the question of the week.

Needless to say, I was very wrong.

When we give you the correct answer a bit later, I'll let you know what I thought.

So let's get started by examining the word dinosaur.

The word dinosaur is Greek, and it translates to terrible lizard.

Do you think that terrible lizard is a fair way to describe dinosaurs?

No, because terrible is not a nice word, and dinosaurs are nice.

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