The parks each feature over 150 life-size dinosaur sculptures created by Christer Svensson.

The dinosaur sculptures themselves are made from a base of carved polystyrene foam, covered with fiberglass, then putty which is them textured as the skin and painted with care.

Once asked why he built all of the enormous dinosaur sculptures, the typically quiet sculptor responded, "Because people like them."

In this tribute the author coined a new word, Garysaurus, a neologism to describe a dinosaur sculpture created by Jim Gary.

Roth's apt name for Gary's dinosaur sculptures has begun to be used by others.

In early 1998 Stout completed three Cretaceous murals and supervised two full-sized dinosaur sculptures for Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Assorted Experiments The first floor has a temporary exhibition room, which now is showing spectacular dinosaur sculptures made by an artist Jim Gary from metal pieces he finds in junkyards.

But the hospital does not plan to move the dinosaur sculpture, said James Saunders, a Bellevue spokesman.

The second is "Man, Woman, Dinosaur" by Regina M. Porter, about a fatherless young black man who supports his invalid mother by selling dinosaur sculptures.

The dinosaur sculptures that feature in the "Strange Young Man" segment are the famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs.