Fun fact: after this strip was published, paleontologists actually DID discover a theropod larger than Tyrannosaurus that specialized in hunting sauropods called Giganotosaurus.
Of course, it was nowhere near as large as Calvin’s Calvinosaurus…I don’t think it’s anatomically possible for an animal to grow that large.
Where I grew up, digging wasn’t really an option (not even with dynamite: My dad tried that…). So we mostly poked around under the cacti looking for skeletons. And on them looking for grasshoppers the shrikes had put on the spines.
With this comic, we receive the definitive proof that Bill Watterson understands little boys better than any person has ever had. EVERYONE wanted to discover a “_____saurus”.
that’s an impressive hole, but any fossil hunter would know that you wouldn’t find fossils in the topsoil, you need to go down into the bedrock, or find a place where the bedrock is exposed like a cliff face. When I was a kid (not quite 6, but still less than 10) I actually found some fossil shells by cracking open rocks. I believe the rocks were slate or shale, a common type of sedimentary rock, I didn’t even need to dig for them, they were lying on the ground in the woods.
BE THIS GUY almost 5 years ago
Does it look like he hit the sewer pipe or does it smell like…
Sugar Bombs 95 almost 5 years ago
Fun fact: after this strip was published, paleontologists actually DID discover a theropod larger than Tyrannosaurus that specialized in hunting sauropods called Giganotosaurus.
Of course, it was nowhere near as large as Calvin’s Calvinosaurus…I don’t think it’s anatomically possible for an animal to grow that large.
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
let us hope that sewer pipe did not spring a gushing leak
The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover almost 5 years ago
Hey, that’s me!
sirbadger almost 5 years ago
Was the guy who made the first Godzilla movie the Japanese version of Calvin?
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
Where I grew up, digging wasn’t really an option (not even with dynamite: My dad tried that…). So we mostly poked around under the cacti looking for skeletons. And on them looking for grasshoppers the shrikes had put on the spines.
Bilan almost 5 years ago
The Calvinosaur is in luck! IHoP is having their all-you-can-eat pancake special.
Red33410 almost 5 years ago
The sewer pipe IS something! laughter
BigDaveGlass almost 5 years ago
If he breaks that pipe Calvin will have a saur a**
Jabroniville Premium Member almost 5 years ago
With this comic, we receive the definitive proof that Bill Watterson understands little boys better than any person has ever had. EVERYONE wanted to discover a “_____saurus”.
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
You’re going to find a whole lot of nasty water in a minute, Calvin!
P51Strega almost 5 years ago
Are you sure that’s a pipe and not the middle of a giant femur? Better dig along it a bit farther.
Kilrwat Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Keep digging…the afternoon will get a whole lot more “interesting”!
joegeethree almost 5 years ago
Not again!
BiathlonNut almost 5 years ago
Forget the vicious allosaurs; think of the not-so-vicious some-osaurs.
WCraft Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I once started to dig a hole in the side of our hill so I could have a hobbit house…didn’t get very far!
rshive almost 5 years ago
Dug in the right place this time.
Bruce388 almost 5 years ago
Digging a hole that size? I don’t see Calvin expending that much effort at anything.
Scoutmaster77 almost 5 years ago
Calvin would be a paleontologist.
yangeldf almost 5 years ago
that’s an impressive hole, but any fossil hunter would know that you wouldn’t find fossils in the topsoil, you need to go down into the bedrock, or find a place where the bedrock is exposed like a cliff face. When I was a kid (not quite 6, but still less than 10) I actually found some fossil shells by cracking open rocks. I believe the rocks were slate or shale, a common type of sedimentary rock, I didn’t even need to dig for them, they were lying on the ground in the woods.
AndrewSihler almost 5 years ago
Sunday C&H is such a treat, Mr Watterson plainly loves to draw, and in the Sunday strips he can really spread his wings. Delightful.
hagarthehorrible almost 5 years ago
The depth Calvin has excavated even the tooth of calvinosaurus would not get fossiled.
Dr. Quatermass almost 5 years ago
I remember The Vicious Allosaurs’ debut album: Call Before You Dig 811.
theotherther1 almost 5 years ago
Anyone else want to see Watterson do the art for the next Age of Reptiles comic?
AaronJOyster almost 5 years ago
Digging that hole seems like A LOT more work that had to be done than if he’d just apply himself in school LOL.
GreggW Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Too bad it wasn’t a gas line.
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Calvinosaurus sized ego!
Angry Indeed Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Too bad archaeologists don’t know jack about dinosaurs!
cheap_day_return almost 5 years ago
Workin’ out on that shovel won’t hurt ya, Calvin. Keeping that up every day could change Moe’s opinion of you.
tad1 almost 5 years ago
When I was a kid, I dug for fossils in my backyard. Like Calvin, I didn’t find anything. (Thankfully, I didn’t hit a sewer pipe.)