Mesozoic Mind

Remember my post on May the second ? How I said I was going to Chicago? The one place I've wanted to go for a long long time? I indeed visited the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago earlier this month for a wedding vacation, on the 6th, and although it was not my first visit, I hadn't had a chance to visit in years. the very first exhibit I headed to? The Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet  on the second floor, it's palaeontology gallery, first opened in 2006 after the museum closed a very 90's gallery "Life After Time". I LOVED IT. EVERY BLOODY SECOND OF IT. I was like a kid in a candy store seeing one of the most impressive array of fossils I've ever seen and excellent exhibitry. Not even a full bladder could stop my enthusiasm.  Admittedly I was so caught up in the rapture I wasn't really paying specifics and went too fast for my liking, so I'm not going to remember all the details of the exhibit. Forgive me for such and potentially missi

WARNING: This will have spoilers. READ AT OWN RISK UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN EPISODE ALREADY "IT BEGINS" It has arrived.  Prehistoric Planet Season Two debuted today, starting with an episode on island-dwelling fauna. I was so hyped for it I convinced my parents to reboot my old account for it, worth it to watch and support the show. Now I won't spoil too much of it if you haven't watched it (DO IT NOW), but here is a summary of the episode and what I first thought of each segments. The first segment is about a Zalmoxes  getting washed out to sea by a raft of vegitation, where with the tree too small to support him, it chooses to flee to another nearby despite risk of getting eaten by a mosasaur, just like with the Rexes in season one. I think it does a good job setting up the theme of island dispersal for evolution, by any rate. Second comes a segment for the small hadrosaur  Tethyshadros  who find themselves beseiged by Hatzegopteryx, who given what the show has beco

Hello, everybody. I'm just here to add the latest RPWIOTD, and something I will be doing this weekend you'll findf very interesting. The River Styx This would be a horror/survival story about a palaeontology student visiting his rural family in Montana and goes fishing together, only to get into a time warp back in time, to (where else?) the Hell Creek Formation 66 million years ago - during a weat season and when the forests are flooded. Stuck on an island, they must find a way off and more importantly a way back to their time - but the local wildlife is going to make that very difficult, as they're mere appearence disturbs them and drives them nuts - though some of the humans aren't helping either. The major creatures in the story, and the subjects of each setpiece would be: The crocodilians  Borealosuchus ,  Brachychampsa , and  Thoracosaurus . They would be the main threat the characters face, as many of them choose to bask on the island and get into conflict with e