Mesozoic Mind

Ah, T. rex. It needs no introduction, and even the youngest nor laypeople not familiar with all but the basics of palaeontology know what it is. It has easily solidified itself as THE dinosaur by default, and has studied countlessly more then arguably any other fossil lifeform on Earth. Ironically, being so well known has meant it's been taken for granted, even called overrated versus other dinosaurs, and many, many misconceptions about it, from like merely a scavenger that couldn't even hunt live prey. This is a shame, as Tyrannosaurus is a pretty cool dino on its own, able to crush bone like no other theropods couldn't and had one of the more fascinating growth stages of any of them. T. rex: The Ultimate Predator , organised by NYC's renowned American Museum of Natural History, which came to the Royal Ontario Museum this month and intends to educate visitors on what is known about the dinosaur, from how it evolved from other dinosaurs to how it lived, and bust those m...

If you haven't been paying attention in the last couple months in the palaeosphere, there's been buzz of a new palaeo-documentary, created by animator and CG palaeoartist Max Bellomio. It's an indie one, named  Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate , about life of denizens of Miocene North America 20 mya, in particular the chalicothere Moropus and the giant entelodont Daeodon . The kicker is that it narrated by none other then Nigel Marven, a hero to many in the palaeo-media community. I am very excited for it ever since I found out about it on the Discord sever I frequent and kept tabs on its pre-production, and have even helped promote it (as I'm doing right now). The Miocene is a very under-represented period in palaeo-media, always overshadowed by the Ice Age and the Mesozoic in spite of its diverse array of life, both from ancient lineages from earlier in the Cenozoic and ones just evolving, all as the world's climate cooled and grasslands spread across the Earth. Even W...