Mesozoic Mind

This is just a way to get a post in this month before its too late. Closed Exhibits at the Royal Ontario Musum In March I saw two temporary exhibits at the Royal Ontario Museum that have since left the building.  First, there is Zuul . You may have heard of the Zuul exhibit back in 2017 (it was great), but for aa few months the holotype of the ankylosaur named after the Ghostbusters monster was brought back, the specimen placed against a wall, with a skull cast in a seperate cabinent. It isn't much, but its cool to see again. It just so happemns to be right next to another temp exhibit now closed, the Field Museum's Death: Life's Greatest Mystery , about well, death. It uses both models and specimens to tell the scientific processes of death, how it woeks and nature, and cultural perceptions and practives of moueni Death only features a few fossils in it. The first are a bonebed of the basal camelid  Leptomeryx , part of the section about the processes of death to the body....

Gertie the Dinosaur reboot Yes, that Gertie the Dinosaur. Hooray for public domain! Premise for it? An adventurous young girl in the early 1910's ends up in another world and meets the friendly but attention-loving Gertie the Dinosaur, and they embark on an adventure through it to get back home, through three lands known as Turfs and coming into conflict (not nessicarily fights) with other giant denizens. This could be either a movie, a TV series, or a game. Characters I have so far are: Gertie the Dinosaur - A female sauropod dinosaur who wants to be the most well known in the Three Lands. Jumbo the Mammoth - A grumpy Mammoth and Gertie's archnemesis, from the EarthTurf. Coatlo the Tetradrake - A giant four-winged reptile that lives on a mountain in the SkyTurf. Leviatho the Sea Serpent - A sea serpent that lives in a great expanse of water in the WaterTurf. Mary McCay - The girl mentioned in the plot summary. Yes, she's named after Windsor McCay, as well as his daughter M...

It's the third anniversary of Mesozoic Mind. It's been a long three years so far, but I'm doing well, and I promise I will post more (or at least go back to just two per month ata minimum - without burning myself out). What better way to celebrate the oocassion then where I got the inspiration for this very blog's title: Dinosaurs: A Fun-Filed Trip Back in Time . This 1987 VHS short that's actually an extension of a 1980 short produced by the great Will Vinton, simply titled "Dinosaur". Both of them are made in the midst of the Dinosaur Rennaisance and the renewed interest in the subject . Land Before Time was in theatres that year for just one example of 80's dino-mania, the kind that gave rise to Jurassic Park . The doc starts with a young kid named Phillip, played by Fred Savage, struggling to get an idea for his science report but can't, and his mother is nagging him about it. However, a song comes up on his boombox, and it leads into the ve...