I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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Scotty the T-Rex to tour Japan
I take a particular interest in Scotty the T-Rex‘s travels, because I had the opportunity to visit the site near Eastend where he was dug out of the ground, while he was still mostly in it (I was doing some work on a documentary about it).
He was discovered by a school-teacher who happened to notice the tip of one tooth sticking up above the ground, and he got his name from the bottle of Scotch paleontologist Tim Tokaryk and associates drank in celebration upon confirming he was indeed a T-Rex!
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/02/scotty-the-t-rex-to-tour-japan/
