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Random Palaeo-Work idea of the Day #26

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Shark Week is on, that sesanationalistic pile of crap. All the docs are utter crap and do ittle to educate the public on what sharks are really like. But given I do like movking it, if I had to make a special for Shark Week... Sharks Vs. Dinosaurs Looks at fossil specimens of dinosaurs with evidence sharks fed on them, like bite mark or even teeth, and the sharks the made them, like Squalicorax , Certoxyrhina , and Cretolammna among others. Czechia’s only dinosaur Burianosaurus  Claosaurus and Silviasaurus from interior US. Appalchian dinosaurs as described by Brownstein (2018). Sources Michael J. Everhart and Keith Ewell "Shark-bitten dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) caudal vertebrae from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Coniacian) of western Kansas," Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 109(1), 27-35, (1 April 2006). https://doi.org/10.1660/0022-8443(2006)109[27:SDHCVF]2.0.CO;2  Madzia, Daniel; Boyd, Clint A.; Mazuch, Martin (2017). "A basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Ceno...

Brief thoughts on Jurassic World: Rebirth

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I saw Jurassic World: Rebirth in theatres couple nights ago, with Gareth Edwards at the helm. Here are my thoughts with it. Both the designs (for the most part) and action setpieces are generally excellent, some of the strongest in the franchise. My favourite would have to be the Mosasaurus and Spinosaurus chase are a great example of both, updating both away from the lasts films aesthethics something closer to current understanding yet still having the movie flair. The bahaviour meanwhile returns more to the first trilogy rather then the World trilogy. Meanwhile, the scene with the Titanosaurus is perhaps even more beutiful then the Brachiosaurus scene from the very first movie. Gareth Edward's love of scale really shines in it as Loomis strokes the leg, and any dino lover will cry like he does. Characters, while not nessicarily the deepest the franchise, are likable. Its especially for Dr. Henry Loomis himself, who's a nerdy sweet type closer to Grant then the generic macho...