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Dino Lab review - Part two

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Alright, we're back to our Dino Lab  duology review, with the other half! Dino Lab II aired in 2009, at a time when the dreck of reality shows were slowly trickling in but Discovery was at least a documentary/educational channel proper (not to mention boasts a lot of nostalgia for Generation Z). For the longest time, this was the only one of the two online, whether in separate videos (now taken down) or currently, on Vimeo (link below). https://vimeo.com/264297389 Here, rather then the standard bright light and open lab, we have a much moodily lit and dark lab. We also have original designs for the dinosaurs courtesy of Modus FX instead of reused Meteor models (since they went bankrupt in 2008). Meanwhile, only Hans Larsson returns as a talking head, and he's joined by David C. Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum (my old stomping grounds might I say) and veterinarian Marie-Josee Limoges of the Granby Zoo in southern Quebec, who compares each dinosaur to a modern creature similar