Mesozoic Mind

Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Today, we're starting a new themed month, Nostalgiavember, about many prehistoric-related entities of my 2000's childhood I enjoyed and loved or simply fondly remembered, even more then usual. I'm talking web videos, books, and movies, rather then the usual array of docs I usually deal in (which are already nostalgic themselves). Our first subject is a very short documentary, simply titled Dinosaur World . It's not to be confused with the unfinished BBC game, the chain of parks, or really, any other work with that title. The video was uploaded in Youtube’s golden age of 2007 but was actually made around 2004, and created by some young British kids named Sam Hart and Tony Hart (and thus are likely brothers or at the very least related from what I can tell), following in the footsteps of a grand british tradition. I hope both Harts have grown up and live good lives now even in troubled. Back on topic, it was made when independent ...

Ah, sweet young Gen X nostalgia Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind . Today, we're gonna be doing something different and try an epoisode of a show that normally doesn't feature dinosaurs or even focus on prehistory. Shows for younger kids do this a lot, mostly beccause of the errenonous assumption kids and only kids like dinosaurs (a topic I may discuss latter). Today, will be Nick Jr.'s classic, Blue's Clues . Yeah. I am going into a show for 5-year olds. Why? I just want to, and it's my show for 5-year olds, growing up with it. I’ve recently started watching Blue’s Clues out of nostalgia, and boy I love it. One reason I’m doing and like  Blue’s Clues  rather then say, its comtemporaies  Dora the Explorer or Go Diego Go!  or the more recent PAW Patrol because honestly, its a lot more watchable and peaceful then most of toddler shows, then and now, which other other are pretty hot garbage in my book due to talking down to them and having way too many stimul...

It is in this very week/on this very day that one of the finest documentaries about dinosaurs and put out by the Discovery Channel premiered. For those not in the know, When Dinosaurs Roamed America is a 2001 documentary special depicting a certain country during the Mesozoic era. Much like a certain BBC documentary from two years prior with the initials WWD, its shot as though it were an actual nature doc, focusing on following dinosaurs' daily lives. Its interspersed with cutaways to talking heads discussing crucial context and fossil finds about american dinosaurs and palaeontology. I have many fond memories of the show, seeing it first on Youtube back when you could and not get copyright claimed, whether its the musical score, the memorable and unique sounds, or hilarious . There are five total segments in the show across its 91-minute runtime. There are in order: Triassic New York, where we follow a Coelophysis as it looks for food and nearly avoids becoming food for a rutio...

(Note: video provided may have stuff missing from original cut) In 2005 and 2009, two specials aired on the Discovery Channel, back when it was actually about science and documentaries. These were both called called Dino Lab , and they had a rather novel premise: instead of simply being a doc of talking heads with occasional vignettes of prehistoric life or a nature documentary-style presentation with the occasional talking head, the show has a laboratory in which dinosaurs are brought into and put through experiments for scientists to study. Such a premise is pretty interesting, if an unusual one that invites more questions (where did the dinosaurs come from? Why is the T. rex first not at the lab?). The first special, from 2005,had a special place to me, as the first one was one of the first docs I saw as a kid on TV, when I was very young. I remember seeing both a T. rex on a treadmill and a plesiosaur splashing a guy with water. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll start off with it's ...