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Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind! We're ending Walking with Dinovember (for realsies this time) with ideas of a trio of docs in the vein of Chased by Dinosaurs , and because stateside there's Thanksgiving weekend, a film appropriate for the holidays. These first two shows would be tributes to nature documentaries of yesteryear, specifically of the kind put out by Steve Irwin, Jeff Corwin, or Austin Stevens that typically aired on Animal Planet where the host goes on safari and interacts with the creatures, often by grabbing creatures and holding them up to the camera. The third... well, you can read it for yourself. Mesozoic Micro Monsters Much like Chased by Dinosaurs, Mesozoic Micro-Monsters focuses on a human host and camera crew traversing Mesozoic in search of a specific creature of interest, much like Chased by Dinosaurs . However, the main difference it as evidenced from the the title, it focuses more on the smaller creatures of the time and area. These are crea

Hello, and welcome to Mesozoic Mind! Today, we are making our first foray into pure fiction in months. Yesterday, a teaser trailer for the latest and [apparently] last Jurassic Park film was released, Jurassic World: Dominion , after a while with the fellow Universal film Fast and Furious 9 in select Imax theatres, but been known to the users of Paleo Media Central , a Discord server run by one  Kingrexy  I am part of. Let me start off that the last two films, Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom , I don't like them too much, due to both the undercooked and bland story and how compared to the well made original trilogy's designs, theirs are very inaccurate in many ways, with FK's Baryonyx being an infamous offender with taking its "Dino-Croc" image way too far. However, from  what I can tell, Dominion will actually try for better accuracy, helped by having Stephen Brusatte as scientific advisor (way better then 2000's era Jack Horner), . The Prologue itself wi

Welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, and we're concluding what I've dubbed Walking with Dinovember by finishing up the other half-erm, three fifths of the Chased by series, Chased by Sea Monsters *. Like the first two, CBSM features zoologist and TV presenter Nigel Marven and a film crew travelling though time in search of particular species. * Again, not called this back home in Britain, only officially so in US and Canada, where the two are just called "A Walking with Dinosaur Trilogy", but let's face it, the former is way more memorable (even if technically Nigel isn't actually chased by them that much here). This three-part series consists of them in a boat called the Ancient Mariner visiting the oceans of 7 points in time, each labelled as the Deadliest Seas of All Time thanks to the sea creatures which inhabit them. Episodes are " Dangerous Seas ", " Into the Jaws of Death ", " To Hell..... and Back? ". In order visited, the per

(link for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KolH0LekY&list=PLzV6yGh6hXDbaa0SvKxy3cywqM--SnWBR&index=1&t=5s&ab_channel=GabrielM.R ) While Walking with Dinosaurs is undeniably a british show, it was not made by them lone: the American Discovery Channel also helped make it. Naturally they aired it stateside, albeit as a single special narrated by Avery Brooks.  However, we're not discussing it. We’re discussing Prehistoric Planet . This was a recut of the series made for younger audiences that aired on Discovery Kids (back when it was just Discovery Channel aimed at kids and not a Hasbro channel) shortened the episodes into roughly 21 minute episodes. There was a season two that did Walking with Beasts , and narrated by Christian Slater (making it the closest to a cenozoic sequel to Dinosaur Planet , but its Lost Media save for the intro ). This was undoubtedly many an american and canadian's introduction to it, but I am not one of them. I discovered the orig

A few days ago, we passed 1000 view on this blog here. While I didn't really plan anything, how about this to celebrate? This idea for a kid's cartoon I've had for a while this year or so. Day with a Dinosaur At the Diggersby Museum of Natural History, so many fossils from around the world are on display, from the biggest T. rex and the largest titanosaur, to the smallest insect and littlest mammal. However, unbeknownst to all but palaeontologist and curator Joaquin Campo, the fossils can come alive. Their goal? To help people evolve past and adapt to their problems, and clear up what they have wrong about dinos. Characters Joaquin Del Campo - A palaeontologist and vertebrate palaeontology curator at the Diggersby Museum of Prehistory. When he sees visitors having trouble, he brings out an ancient spellbook and bring the dinosaurs to life to help them. He’s even-tempered and kind, though not above snarking at the museumgoers’ stupidity and flaws. Dinosaurs There are many d

Welcome back to Mesozoic Mind ! We're continuing the Trilogies of Life this month with another instalment of it: 2002's Chased by Dinosaurs * and 2003's Sea Monsters . I remember watching them as a kid and being obsessed with them. Even today I can practically quote the whole scripts from memory. * Note that they're not called this back home in Britain, only officially so in US and Canada, where the two are just called "Walking with Dinosaur Specials" The biggest difference from the rest of the franchise is that there's a human onscreen hosting it and interacting with the prehistoric life: british naturalist Nigel Marven (who if your like me, is no stranger to this kind of thing ). In many regards, its in the vein of Animal Planet's nature documentaries put out by Steve Irwin (RIP) and Jeff Corwin put out at the time. At the time (and still is), this was pretty novel: on one hand you had a typical documentary with plenty of humans in our time being int