Caught on Camera: Dinosaurs Attack High School, Then Wiped Out by Timely Meteor

 There are photographs, and also 

there’s word of it on the internet, 

so it must be true! Obviously! 

In the immortal words of 

Abraham Lincoln, “anything 

you see on the internet is true, of 

course.” And that’s from Ol’

“Honest Abe” himself. (This 

quote was found on the internet, 

so it too must be true.) 

What are we talking about? 

Well, we mean that recent time 

when huge dinosaurs invaded 

the campus of Nelson County 

High School in Virginia. 

Luckily, NCHS photography 

students were there with 

cameras in hand to document the 

unique reptilian encounters. 

These same students had also 

been learning about free (banner

ad-supported) online photo-editing and manipulation site, 

PhotoPea.com, where one can 

upload an image and combine it 

with other images. PhotoPea 

can do almost everything that 

the better-known but often pricy 

app, PhotoShop, might do.

We should note that there’s an 

unconfirmed rumor out there 

which dares to question the 

photographic proof. The rumor 

suggests that maybe some of the 

photos of dinosaurs gathered at

NCHS are actually manipulated 

images with the dinosaurs 

digitally blended-in from 

elsewhere, thanks to PhotoPea.

No way! We’re sure Lily Reid 

caught a clear photo of a 

Tyrannosaurus rex running right 

past the NCHS greenhouse 

while a flying dino, possibly a

Pterodactylus antiquus, swoops 

by. 

(Trivia: scientific names of 

species are properly written in 

italic and with the first word 

capitalized, the second word 

*never* capitalized, even if it 

came from a proper noun like 

Americanus. The system of 

species names is sometimes 

called binomial nomenclature, 

from Latin [“two names”

and “name calling/classing”].) 

In the next moment and in the 

same location, Tiera Moon

photographed a schoolbus-sized 

songbird flying past –perhaps 

an example of the oversized 

creatures (the megafauna) of 

millions of years ago.

Danica McGeehan captured an 

image of a pterodactyl in flight. 

McGeehan also documented the 

timely arrival of a meteor which 

wiped out the dinosaurs from 

NCHS’ campus.



The whole 

2022 dinosaur and megafauna 

invasion (which we’re sure is 

real) was over so quickly that 

there was no school lockdown or 

shelter-in-place issued. In fact,

the photography students spent 

much of the rest of the block 

back in the classroom while

calmly uploading photos to 

PhotoPea and then working on 

something on their laptops for 

some reason. 

(by NCHS Art Dept.)