Mesozoic Mind

What if the dinosaurs never died out? Its a question we all have asked, with awsnsers ranging from comic scenarios to serious speculative evolution projects, and even documentaries have dipped into it.  My Pet Dinosaur is an episode of the long-running BBC science series Horizon  that answers exactly this question and how humans (if we'd even be around) would interact with them. It features palaeontologists like Don Lessem, Phil Currie, Kristie Currie Rogers, Larry Witmer, and Greg Erickson as talking heads, with one Mark Everest behind the camera. (Link; apologies for mirroring) * Not to be confused with a 2017 australian movie of the same fiom which I have intent on seeing let alone reviewing. The episode begins with a trip to Alberta's Dinosaur Park to determine how likely dinosaurs would survive given how they were doing at the time, which was very good. It also tackles the temperature of dinosaurs and the implication it would have for them to survive the ice age: but of ...

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...