I recently found out my badass dinosaur necklace is actually a lizard

Late last fall, I bought a silver dinosaur necklace from Red Lipstick (sweet boutique near my previous apartment in Prospect Park, Brooklyn). The charm was fantastically detailed & scary-looking. I thought it would make an excellent conversation piece (which are wise to wear to parties, just in case said gathering is totally awkward.)

Dinosaur charm looked like this guy here:



I debuted this necklace at my friend Amanda’s birthday party. Everybody there was like, “What an awesome necklace. You seem really cool to talk to.” These people were totally right.

BUT THEN this girl Tess was all, “That’s not a dinosaur.” And I was like, “Yes it is.” And she was like, “Nope, it’s a Dimetrodon, which is not actually a dinosaur, but rather a lizard that looks like one.” The following Monday, she sent me a link:

Via About.com:

Size and Weight:
About 11 feet long and 500 pounds
Diet:
Meat
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Big head; narrow body; large, thin sail on back
About Dimetrodon:
It’s often mistaken for a dinosaur, but Dimetrodon lived long, long before the first dinosaurs evolved—280 million years ago, during the Permian period. An example of a pelycosaur—among the first reptiles to live entirely on land—it went extinct about 250 million years ago, along with countless other species.

I felt pretty upset the first time I read this. Tess was right— my necklace charm is a lizard, not a dinosaur. I had indeed been fooled.

But then again— is Dimetrodon BETTER than a dinosaur? It ate only meat, and lived “long, long before the first dinosaurs evolved.” Thus, this badass giant lizard is the guy that carnivorous dinosaurs evolved from!

My necklace rules! It also now has the potential to become the most annoying conversation piece ever.