They are intriguingly paradoxical. They’ve been dead for about 65 million years, but scientists are still discovering new things about dinosaurs. Although the word implies something that is obsolete and so has failed, the species was phenomenally successful in terms of longevity. They are usually depicted as fierce, bloodthirsty beasts and yet the vast majority of them were docile, plant eaters. And although a hungry Tyrannosaurus could’ve swallowed a 4 yr. old in one gulp, children love dinosaurs, especially ole T.Rex.

Why call a show The Great Dinosaur Mystery? The entire field of paleontology reads like a detective story; finding the clues (fossils), using the clues as puzzle pieces to assemble creatures never before seen by humans, studying the collected information to solve the mystery of why dinosaurs became extinct, and finally adding the information gathered from the detective work to help form theories of what our earth was like in prehistory.
But there must be a particular mystery in the plot that’s solvable.

The story is set in the basement of the Natural History Museum. Dr. Vander Plastercaster (Please, just call me Doc) is about to give the audience a behind the scenes tour of a new dinosaur exhibit, when she finds a mysterious box. “It was supposed to be filled with fossils, but it was empty!” Enter Detective Joe Kafootsie, Special Forces: Strange Phenomena Detail. He’s found a giant shoe and thinks it might belong to a dinosaur! Suddenly dinosaurs begin appearing with messages from a mysterious character named Tootsie. Who is Tootsie? What do the messages mean? What’s going on?

It’s all part of the great, great, great, great, Great Dinosaur Mystery.