Mourning for dinosaurs, 65 million years too late | CNN

Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end around 65 million years ago are currently being memorialized online by dino-heads who mourn their mass extinction. Fans chop up animated footage of dinosaur hatchlings or long-necked herbivores in courtship (mostly taken from the recent Netflix docuseries “The Dinosaurs”) and set it to somber music. “The world was supposed to be theirs,” one viewer lamented in the comments. Dinosaurs do not know, another TikToker opined, that “we found them and we love them with everything we have.” Others wondered how they could miss creatures they never knew. But humans have a long habit of inserting their own feelings into the story of the dinosaurs. Our vanished gargantuan predecessors have served in the imagination as monster-movie villains, preschool companions, friends or house-sized house pets. Small children memorize big facts about them; rich people invest or squander fortunes buying their bones. They can’t stop showing up in movie theaters: This coming summer, they’ll walk among humans again in a mysterious film starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. When science