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Speaker 1: There was once an enormous Trannosaurus rex. He had great, big,

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stomping feet tipped with sharp curved claws. His body was

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covered with thick, lumpy skin, and his mouth was full

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of vicious looking teeth. He was absolutely terrifying to behold,

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and because he was so knee trembling scary, nobody stayed

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around long enough to get close. One look at his

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horrid face coming towards you was enough to make you

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run away. Who, after all, would want to risk getting

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eden by that. Max, though, was not a t rex.

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He was a much smaller dinosaur, one of the smallest.

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In fact, Max was a parvy cursor, and parvy cursors

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were positively itchy. Like Tyrannosaurus, they stood on two legs,

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but parvy cursors were no larger than a pigeon. They

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were too small to hunt to triceratops, so parvey curses

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hunted insects instead, and hunting insects was what Max was

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doing when he heard a horrible scream coming up ahead. Huh,

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someone's in trouble, thought Max, racing towards the danger. Maybe,

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just maybe he could help. He charged out from under

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some dropping leaves and almost ran straight into the gigantic

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foot of a t rex. Yikes, yelled Max. The last

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thing he wanted to do was get involved with a giant,

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scary predator like that. If this t rex had cornered

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a dinosaur for his dinner, then there wasn't much that

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tiny little Max could do, so he swiftly turned around

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to disappear back beneath the leaves, only to realize that

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something wasn't quite right. The t rex appeared.

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