What makes people deeply ____ for dinosaurs? The Natural History Museum's most famous resident is on tour - and the crowds gathering to see Dippy suggest a dinosaur ____ affair that's far ____ extinct. But what explains this ____-level fasciation for ____ reptiles from which we are separated by millions of years? "Come and say hello to Dippy," says the man in the video. On that invitation, the schoolchildren enter a room and ____ at a skeleton. They are in ____ and their reaction is beautiful. The youngsters are enjoying the latest ____ of Dippy's tour and, despite this ____ being a plaster cast of diplodocus bones, the famous ____ still pulls ____ the crowds. More than 22,000 tickets were ____ up on the first day of release for the Birmingham ____, adding to the 153,000 people who visited during Dippy's stay in Dorset. Never mind, then, Harry and Meghan or the cast of Love Island - the new "look at how he looks at her" is schoolboys ____ for ____ and tails. But it's the ____ that reveals our case of dino-love to be a curious one. With each displayed skeleton comes ____, but the animal to which it belongs is ____ and unknown. According to academic Dr Will Tattersdill, it's this that ____ an ____ both ____ and deep-____ In August, he will give a talk in front of Dippy, ____ what goes on in our minds when we feel the dino-____. Why do we love dinosaurs? One academic is ____ his ____ out. Here's how he thinks the everywhere - "dinosaurs are on cereal boxes; they're on children's clothes" - and the nowhere - they're dead - work on us: "The fact dinosaurs are extinct makes them ours. "A dinosaur can't object ____ our interpretation. "They're ____ - inaccessible but right next to us; a success and failure; scary and reassuring. The ____ is a real part of it. They ____ together these concepts - mystery and reality with enough space in between to do what we like. "There's a distance but a ____ distance - and it's a distance we control." It's not Dr Tattersdill's only idea about what's going on - broadly, he sees three interconnected ____ - but it's one that sees him get ____ than some; among them Michael Crichton, on whose novel Steven Spielberg ____ Jurassic Park - a film with a fourth ____ currently playing in cinemas. Few people if any have done more than the late author to ____ dinosaurs' cultural ____ over the past 25 years, so little wonder he wanted to know the cause of their ____ popularity - particularly what was going on in our minds; the psychology of the ____. But in an essay in which he tried to ____ it out, the man who had effectively been dinosaurs' PR rep was left ____. The dino don had nothing. In fact, Crichton ____ more than he discovered. He did not, for instance, think it was a kid thing; finding the fascination to be ____, free of ____, and common in children and adults ____. He was also sceptical of dinosaurs' size being behind the appeal, discounting too any sense of ____ curiosity, sympathy, or natural history ____ over their extinction. Small dinosaurs, he found, ____ as much interest as the large, with dinosaurs' done days a tricky concept for kids who ask to see them at the zoo.

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