Mesozoic Mind

Chromosaurs I did promise such a thing in the Chromosaurus quicky.... so here you go! A throwback to 1980's science fiction works and cartoons in particular, a story about tribes of robot dinosaurs and their struggle to live, and that includes fighting amost one another, but also . Our main one we follow are naturally the T. rexes, but others include: Sauropods Ceratopsids Hadrosaurs Raptors Wings An animated film set in the Jurassic about the first  Archeopteryx  and his attempts to learn how to fly despite his flock ridiculing him so much. However, in a fiery climax as a volcano erupts, his flight saves him and fluies away to found the lineage. It's gonna be one of those where dinosaurs that lived in seperate areas and times (mostly each stage of the Late Jurassic what is now Europe and Asia) are in the same ecosystem and have a cartoonish art style, and yes I known Archeopteryx wasn't much of a flyer itself, though there will be plenty of getting accuracy right, such as ...

If you've seen compilations of early CGI films from the 1980's and 90's, you may have seen this. I previously mentioned it in my review of Donkin's Dinosaurs , but never got around to reviewing in full... as it were. This is Chromosaurus *, creating by a fledgeling Pacific Data Images, written by animator Don Venhaus (the director however is unknown as of this writing), and released in 1985, the bery fiest CG work to use dinosaurs in any capacity, albiet here robotic ones. It was quite a year for palaeomedia, as it included not just it (the first CG-animated work period), but also the CBS documentary Dinosaur!  with its stop motion dinos and no doubt many's introduction to the Dinosaur Renaissance's ideals, what is known as the Normanpedia that introduced the palaeoart world to John Sibbick, as well as the Disney movie  Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend . It seems to be the year that kicked off the hype for prehistory that led to Jurassc Park in the 90's, and...

With the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park having come in June, I had to celebrate, first by watching the film itself, but the day after that, I went with my father on June 12 to another befitting attraction: Jurassic World: The Exhibition , a travelling walkthrough attraction organised by Neon Global, which came to my fair city of Mississaga in May, specifically a former sporting good store now used for travelling. JWTE themes itself to travelling to the namesake park of the recent trilogy. It's actually the latest of many tie ins to the frsnchise, from The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park back in the 1990's, to the Japenese-exclusive Jurassic Park Institute Tour , which I eagerly watched as a kid and wanted to go to. But enough of building up and let's begin our tour, shall we? The exhibit begins with a themed pre-show about boarding a boat to Isla Nublar, as video screens of ocean simulate the ride there. It's a nice start to the attraction if I say so myself. Neat post...

Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. June is here, and I'm kicking it off with two ideas related to how June is been labelled both Jurassic June and Pride Month, both of which are quite to my interests, hence why all June posts this months will have at least more then one Jurassic taxa and be dubbed Junerassic . Jurassic Giants Art by Nils Hoff (2011) Yet another documentary idea of mine, this one about one of the underrepresented Late Jurassic locales known: the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania. It's not as well known as other contemporary formations (China's, Europe's, or North America's), but what sets it apart is that it preserves both terrestrial and marine fossils due to representing a coastal plain of lagoons and deltas. This documentary would thus be about the giants of both the land and the sea, and how the ecosystems of both influence one another. For example, washed out dung from dinosaurs on land brings nitrogen to the sea. And yes, there would be sc...