Mesozoic Mind

  With winter season in full swing, I think its as good as time as any to focus on a rising star in palaeo-media, the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, which has been seen in quite a few documentaries over the last decade and even a movie (which I swear I am avoiding) as a snowy wonderland. Among the first is today's subject  March of the Dinosaurs  (2011), a feature-length documentary (with a name that references another certain documenary about (avian) dinosaaurs in arctic conditions) written by the Trilogy of Life's Jasper James, and directed by Matthew Thompson ( Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough ).  The film is about a herd of the duck-bill giant Edmontosaurus and the hornless horned dino Pachyrhinosaurus migrating from the PCF in Alaska to Alberta across Laramidia for the winter, but run into much trouble along the way; occasionally we cut back to the PCF to follow a Troodon named Patch struggling to survive in the winter up there. However, the m...

Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog that has reviewed Discovery Channel documentaries a bit too much at the expense of others and so will try to stay away from them a bit. Today, right after we hit 1000 views in a single month for the first time, we will tackle the 2015 British documentary  Dinosaur Britain , hosted by presenter Ellie Harrison, travelling to various locales around the country, starting wirh visiting Dippy the Diplodocus at London's Natural History Museum (this was before it was taken off display) and waxing about how she much like other brits became enamoured with dinosaurs because of it. However, that's not what Dinosaur Britain is best known for: rather, it is that the dinosaurs themselves are presented roaming about modern England and scaring its people, much like fellow ITV dino-show  Primeval , with Ellie often encountering them. To start things off, we are first shown a Baryonyx  wandering the halls of the Natural History Museum...