Santa Monica Dinosaurs
(c) 2003 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com, Inc. (fair use policy)
Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade is guarded at each end by topiary dinosaurs. They seem compatible with the feathery trees and palms along the street. Each installation is flanked by planters containing horsetails (phylum Sphenophyta), a primitive reedlike plant that, unlike the dinosaurs, survived the Cretaceous mass extinction. In fact it survived the Permian mass extinction before that, the worst on record. Its simplicity has served the horsetail well.
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