Mesozoic Mind

 Man, 2026 is the gift that really keeps on giving! Surviving Earth , the new 8-part palaeodocumentary series from Tim Haines that ecompasses not just the Mesozoic, but the other eras, is coming! It's shaping up to be quite the  Actually in fact, the trailer for Surviving Earth debuted last year! How no one noticed, I'll never know. Anyway, here's the trailer for it! APRIL FOOLS! It's one of those cases where an entirely different work has the same name as a palaeowork. In this case, some drama film has the same name as SE. See you June 4 for the real thing.

Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Let's begin again, to close out winter with an ice age palaeodoc! L.A. 10,000 BC is another one of those forgotten documentaries from the early 2000's. Naturally its from Discovery Channel. Man, I really need to branch out more and watch other docus not owned by a certain conglomerate now.... The docu's premise is of using Hollywood stuntmen (Greg Fitzpatrick, Cheryl Lawson, and Richard Bucher) to demonstrate how ancient Indeginous people would have survived and even hunted the megafauna in Reality show-style challenges. Wow, the 2000s were something else.  We first see three people, played by the stuntmen, having bad days as the narrator talks up how no matter how bad it seems to get these days, the past was way more difficult when all the megafauna were still around... and then its completely forgotten. It's a shame, as I feel like a potential set up of snooty rich folk getting a taste of real survival would be a novel premis...

Yes, this blog is still going on. Here's an assemblage of all the video-based palaeomemes i've made to tide you over: