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Random Palaeo-Work idea of the Day #25

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Gertie the Dinosaur reboot Yes, that Gertie the Dinosaur. Hooray for public domain! Premise for it? An adventurous young girl in the early 1910's ends up in another world and meets the friendly but attention-loving Gertie the Dinosaur, and they embark on an adventure through it to get back home, through three lands known as Turfs and coming into conflict (not nessicarily fights) with other giant denizens. This could be either a movie, a TV series, or a game. Characters I have so far are: Gertie the Dinosaur - A female sauropod dinosaur who wants to be the most well known in the Three Lands. Jumbo the Mammoth - A grumpy Mammoth and Gertie's archnemesis, from the EarthTurf. Coatlo the Tetradrake - A giant four-winged reptile that lives on a mountain in the SkyTurf. Leviatho the Sea Serpent - A sea serpent that lives in a great expanse of water in the WaterTurf. Mary McCay - The girl mentioned in the plot summary. Yes, she's named after Windsor McCay, as well as his daughter M
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Dinosaurs: A Fun-Filed Trip Back in Time review

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It's the third anniversary of Mesozoic Mind. It's been a long three years so far, but I'm doing well, and I promise I will post more (or at least go back to just two per month ata minimum - without burning myself out). What better way to celebrate the oocassion then where I got the inspiration for this very blog's title: Dinosaurs: A Fun-Filed Trip Back in Time . This 1987 VHS short that's actually an extension of a 1980 short produced by the great Will Vinton, simply titled "Dinosaur". Both of them are made in the midst of the Dinosaur Rennaisance and the renewed interest in the subject . Land Before Time was in theatres that year for just one example of 80's dino-mania, the kind that gave rise to Jurassic Park . The doc starts with a young kid named Phillip, played by Fred Savage, struggling to get an idea for his science report but can't, and his mother is nagging him about it. However, a song comes up on his boombox, and it leads into the ve
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Coming Attractions: Giant Screen Films' T. Rex

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Yes, that's Mark Witton's art I'M NOT DEAD YET! Anyway, here's an update on an upcoming palaeo-work, its trailer uploded earlier this month. T. Rex is an upcoming documentary released by Giant Screen Pictures and directed by David Clark about what is pretty much the default dinosaur and its biology, following both the lives of one and a palaeontological dig from last year. Funnily rnough, this is the second T. rex-centric doc he's made: the Waking the T. Rex: The Story of Sue  from 2010 was the first. From the trailer features the usual suspects of the Hell Creek Formation: besides Rex, you have Trike, Edmonto, and Quetzalcoatlus , as well as the oviraptorosaur  Anzu  being forced into the classic "Egg thief" role. The trailers also show we will have moments flashing back to Middle Jurassic with Guanlong . As well as that, the website mentions "its carnivorous Cretaceous cousins", which could mean we could see other tyannosaurs too. Now I'll
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Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster: a review

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Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Today we will be looking at the very first palaeodoc of 2024, and the third work by the great David Attenborough featured here,  Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster . It's one of the many both the BBC and David's put out over the last couple years about fossil finds, all titled "Attenborough and the X", wich include Attenborough and the Sea Dragon , about Temnodontosaurus , Giant Dinosaur, about the sauropod  Patagotitan , and Giant Egg , about the Elephant Bird. In this case, it's about a fossil specimen of the plesiosaur  Pliosaurus  found a couple years ago and the efforts to understand it, airing on both New Years Day and Valentines in the US. ( Link to the documentary ) Let's get something out of the way however: the doc does not ever say the name of the fossil's discoverer, Phillip Jacobs. The crew should be ashamed of such, and . There's even a Change.org petition that demands compensation by having
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A Valentines Gift from Mesozoic Mind!

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  Happy Valentines Day from Mesozoic Mind! As a gift to pass on, have this hastily-made image I made in Pixelr! Share this duo of the tooth taxon Cardiodon (who's name means Heart Tooth) to your loved ones And yes, I am still around. I swear I'll have a review up by the end of the month.
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Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia review

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Day, who here remembers this video back in the day? If you do, you know what I mean. If not (or even if you do)... lemme introduce you to  Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia , yet another palaeo-documentary released for IMAX theatres during the 2000's (notably came out alongside Dinosaurs Alive ), during the early stages of the Awesomebro period when the Trilogy of Life was done and edgy tributes were coming in, and I adored the trailer alone for it.  80 million years ago, they ruled the earth. Come and see for the first time: real life sized dinosaurs... on the world's largest screen . Oh, man, that's still cool 17 years on. Also, I thought from how the trailer was edited the humans were gonna interact with the dinosaurs by travelling back in time to study the dinosaurs, Nigel Marven-style. That would have been amazing... Anyway, this creation of Quebecois creative Marc Fafard documents the Cenomanian dinosaurs of South America
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