Make-A-Wish: The Dinosaur
Meaty and Zack
(Zack's on the right)
Zack's wish was a fairly common one for a 6-year-old boy. He wanted to have a dinosaur. In particular, he wanted a 130-pound Tyrannosaurus Rex like the one he had seen during Carnegie Museum's DinoMite Days.
Make-A-Wish® partnered with the Pittsburgh Zoo to help grant this wish. Zack woke up one morning to his mom telling him that a mysterious egg was uncovered at the zoo, and they were asking for anyone knowledgeable about dinosaurs to go to the zoo to help.
Zack, dressed in a khaki vest and sporting a magnifying glass and fossil brush, got a ride to the zoo in an H1 Hummer. He met with the zoo curator and met a dinosaur's descendant, the Komodo dragon.
After some research, Zack determined that the egg and tracks were none other than that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex! Zack headed to the Carnegie Museum's Big Bone Room to confirm his suspicions. While he was there, he helped clean a bone from a 9-million-year-old fossil.
After leaving the museum, he suddenly realized that the tracks were headed straight to his house! In his backyard, he found his 7½-foot tall pet waiting for him! The dinosaur had been cast just for Zack and was painted exactly how Zack wanted it — a green body with other carnivorous dinosaurs painted all over it. The dinosaur also had a tattoo with Zack's preferred name on it: "Meaty." Zack said that he named him Meaty because he eats meat.
Read more about Zack and his dinosaur adventures at Make-A-Wish®'s website, wish.org.
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