Mesozoic Mind

Yes, that's Mark Witton's art I'M NOT DEAD YET! Anyway, here's an update on an upcoming palaeo-work, its trailer uploded earlier this month. T. Rex is an upcoming documentary released by Giant Screen Pictures and directed by David Clark about what is pretty much the default dinosaur and its biology, following both the lives of one and a palaeontological dig from last year. Funnily rnough, this is the second T. rex-centric doc he's made: the Waking the T. Rex: The Story of Sue  from 2010 was the first. From the trailer features the usual suspects of the Hell Creek Formation: besides Rex, you have Trike, Edmonto, and Quetzalcoatlus , as well as the oviraptorosaur  Anzu  being forced into the classic "Egg thief" role. The trailers also show we will have moments flashing back to Middle Jurassic with Guanlong . As well as that, the website mentions "its carnivorous Cretaceous cousins", which could mean we could see other tyannosaurs too. Now I'll ...

For the weekend of my birthday (despite really wanting it on my birthday), me and my wonderful mother headed to my stomping grounds, the Royal Ontario Museum in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The whole museum encompasses a whole lot of subjects, from ancient and world cultures, canadian history and Indigenous Cultures of it, ecosystems and animals (they have a cool walkthrough bat cave diorama for instance), and geology. However, what we're here to discuss is its palaeontology galleries. Respectively known as the James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs and Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals, these two opened as part of a 2007 renovation that added the iconic "crystals" that look out onto the streets. Anytime I passed by them being driven by since I was a kid, I always tried to get a glimpse of the dinosaur skeletons through the glass, and begged my parents for a visit. But enough nostalgic waxing. Let's walk through the ROM's prehistoric gal...