Joyce Carol Oates and that picture of Steven Spielberg with a 'dead' dinosaur

A photograph of the director with an animatronic dinosaur, posted online as a joke, prompted choice comments from Oates. The internet is bamboozled

Joyce Carol Oates: prolific author, National Book award winner, Pulitzer nominee. And " dinosaur conservationist?

Oates has a Twitter feed which has come in for a fair amount of criticism in the past. "Here is the problem with your Twitter feed, Joyce Carol Oates: It is, as we like to say on the internet, the worst," wrote our own Michelle Dean for Gawker last year, citing her "'Cat food' in China actually is" comment. The novelist had previously been criticised for linking rape culture to Islam on her Twitter feed, and for saying she'd be "very surprised" if women were harassed in affluent areas.