Someone please alert Ross Geller immediately.
A 10-year-old budding paleontologist corrected an error pertaining to dinosaurs at London's Natural History Museum, eliciting an apology and words of thanks from the curators. Per the BBC, an English boy named Charlie Edwards was partaking in a special overnight program at the museum with other students called "Dino Snores for Kids"—and when he was exploring the "Dinosaur Trail" activity to look for fossils, he realized that one of the signs in the trail wasn't visually accurate.
“I read this one sign that had an egg, but then it showed the full dinosaur side-by-side comparison to a human and I saw that the shape of it was wrong,” Edwards explained. So when he returned home, he alerted his parents about the error, and although they were skeptical that a museum of that caliber would make such a mistake, they sent an email to the Natural History Museum. "When he told us, we said, ‘O.K., we know you’re good, but this is the Natural History Museum,’” his mother recounted.
And lo and behold: A few weeks later a letter from the museum arrived to confirm Edwards' suspicions were indeed correct and to thank him for identifying the error. (The sign in question showed the silhouette of a Protoceratops when it should've showed an Oviraptor. Such a classic mistake.)
“I am really, really proud of him,” his mother said. “Charlie has Asperger syndrome and tends to find a subject he loves and tries to learn so much about it, so it’s really nice that he’s been able to show what he’s learned and that knowledge base.” The museum added in a statement that the dinosaur exhibition had been "refurbished several times" and "an error [had] been made."
The future looks bright for this little scholar.
