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- uncountableThe obsession or love of dinosaurs (animals of the clade Dinosauria).
People assume that with all this dinophilia, and with all the money spent on dinosaur paraphernalia, paleontology must be rolling in dough.
2009 August 18, bibibibi, “:(((”, in hun.politika (Usenet)2 more examples
Robert Bakker, I believe. The main theory is presented in "The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs", which isn't actually by Bakker. Can't remember tha author offhand, but can find out if anyone's interested. This book was reprinted recently in the light of dinophilia, and is worth a read if you're interested in the field.
1993 June 16, Pete Clinch, “Jurassic Park”, in bit.listserv.cinema-l (Usenet)Most people get the dino bug as kids. And get over it. But Larry League was a teacher in his forties when he was struck down with dinophilia: Dinosaurs were not the "in" thing when I was a child... I've collected rocks, minerals and fossils all my life, but there were few dinosaur remains in Kansas where I lived.
2007, Michelle Lovric, Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie: The World's Most Unusual Museums, Icon Books, page 219
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