When Remy Rodriguez grows up, he wants to be a famous paleontologist and a tow truck driver.
When the five-year-old from Colorado Springs could choose where to go for his birthday, he opted for the dinosaur attractions of Alberta over Disney World.
“We kind of just thought he’d say Disney World, but he looked up at us and he said, ‘I want to go to Alberta, Canada,” said Michelle Rodriguez, Remy’s mother.
“Both my husband and I were, like, ‘What? Wait, no. Don’t you want to go to Disney World?’ He was like, ‘No I don’t think so, I’m going to go to Alberta.’”
The precocious and pint-d paleontologist first heard about Alberta’s dinosaur connection when he started taking Dino 101, a free online course out of the University of Alberta, with his mom at age four.
He can now fire off a definition of convergent evolution on demand and will happily explain that a Pteranodon is not a dinosaur to any novice who utters the mistake within his earshot.
Young dino lover from Colorado chooses Alberta over Disney World
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