Mesozoic Mind

It is done. I have finished Prehistoric Planet . While I had some difficulties setting it up and thus had the hype deflated a bit for me, I loved it through and through, and its certainly one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. 5. Freshwater By no means is Freshwater a bad episode. As I have wrote before , it's merely the least good of the series: not many of the sequences take place within lakes, wetlands, and rivers, so we don't get any fun swimming scenes and none of the cool fish or crocodilians of the time (ignoring they're practically mundane conpared to other mesozoic ones). A T. rex scene is completely superfluous, only having one wade in river as a connection, and for got knows what reason they stuck Quetzalcoatlus  in Madagascar of all places (even if it was just for breeding). It doesn't help it barely has its own identity in technical side: the colour palates of each segments, or even segments themselves,...

 Okay, I lied about not doing another thing like it. Sorry. Deserts If you think its cool, watch the ep and see it in motion. The second episode is definitely one of if not the best in the series so far. Ever The Dreadnoughtus sequence that starts the episode is where it peaks. As befits one of the largest of them, the sequence conveys the huge size and power of them excellently through wide shots and boomiong music. The rest of the episode is also great. The mongolian scenes are stellar, a segment about Barbaridactylus is good (and even delves into gender), and there's a nice one at the end about South American hadrosaurs braving harsh conditions. All are excellently shot and scored, However, its not all ups for the episode. I'm not a fan of the watering hole scene. Even with the breathtaking cinematography, it feels a bit too much like a video game cutscene for my tastes, leaves Therizinosaurus , my favourite dinosaur completely unmentioned, same for many other dinosaurs. The...

I saw the first episode of Apple TV+'s  Prehistoric Planet   last night, focusing on marine life along the coasts of the time. WAS. EXCELLENT. From the visuals, cinematography, to the accuracy, it was everything I hoped for and more. Without getting into spoiler territory, a basic overview of the ep is something like this: A father T. rex (which the palaeosphere has all but named Hank) goes for a swim with his babies to show them how to hunt. Pterosaurs in Morocco fly to survive and escape one another. The kiwi plesiosaur  Tuarangisaurus  living a social life together. Mosasaurus hoffmani in Europe prepare to mate, by both getting a skin treatment from fish and fighting. Ammonites in the Western Seaway court with bioluminescent light shows. The visual effects are utterly astounding: the CG is incredibly detailed, and . There's even a few puppets here for some particular baby pterosaurs known as Alcione , or at least I think so: CG's so good I can't tell. The cinemato...

Welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog where I look at all kinds of dinosaur-related media (but mostly documentaries with the occasional book) We're continuing Marvel's 1992 miniseries of dinosaur comics, Dinosaurs: A Celebration  with the second issue ( read here - at your own risk ), this issue focusing on small theropods and sauropods. First, observe the Oviraptor (drawn by John Bolton) on the cover, and boy its excellent. it really nails the downright alien bird feel that oviraptorids had, helped by it resembling a macaw due to the stripes on the chees and general head colours. It's even got feathers on it, not too bad for 1992. The detail also deserves mention: notive the holes and scratches in the beak, or the texture of the feathers. Not to sure about the wide tongue though, as I lean more to it having a thin, immobile tongue. The weirdly vampiric-looking teeth (while accurate) are also off to me. The encyclopaedia chapters cover the following topics. Unlike last ti...