Mesozoic Mind

Well, I did promise I'd review it back in April....   Hoo boy, where do I even begin with 2010's  Tyrannosaurus Sex ? This documentary is pretty much only known for one thing: being about dinosauur sex and mentioning penises a lot, even discussing the size of it. You probably saw this clip below as a kid and snickered your ass off as the repeated mention of penises and sex. In the greater scheme of things, the infamous reputation probably stems from how as with most of recent human history, it was deemed by the ruling classes taboo to discuss such topicsto gain control of them for themselves and so was pushed into unacceptability territory, which ended up backfiring through the forbiden fruit effect, meaning were were better off of humaity just accepted it from the start.... but that's beyond the scope of this blog post. Anyway, for the longest time Tyrannosaurus Sex was lost media, with the sole upload getting taken down thanks to that darn copyright, and only being uploa...

When you mention dinosaurs and New Zealand, what's the first thing that comes to mind that combines both? Some would say director Peter Jackson and the criminally underrated beasts of his King Kong movie. Others would think of the so-called living fossils of the archipelago from plants to the Tuatara. Still others think of the avian kind of dinosaur from the Cenozoic and by extension the Maori people's time, from the iconic Kiwi to the extinct Moas and the Poukai Eagle . While al of those are valid to think, not many would associate New Zealand with the non-avian dinosaurs, since there aren't really that many fossil sites in the country preserving them. That brings us to this documentary,  The Lost Dinosaurs of New Zealand  from 2002. This Discovery Channel documentary chronicles one of the few major mesozoic fossil sites and the only only one preserving non-avian dinosaurs in the country however fragmentary they are, the people who discovered it, and the implications it ba...