Mesozoic Mind

Couple days ago I went to Ripley's Aquarium og Toronto. It is a pretty good aquarium with some rare species, though a bit on the small side, and it being in one direction means backtracking is difficult. It also has a few fossils in it, might I add. First, is a hanging skeleton of the fish  Xiphactinus , which is cool to see, as is the whale behind it, really shows . And being an aquarium, it make sense to have a fossil fish on full display. Nearby on on the wall is a cast of the mosasaur Clidastes , another Xiph head, and a trilobite in there. The Julian Johnson art from Sea Monsters are a nice touch too, even if presumably it wasn't liscenced. Further down is an exhibit called Dragons, about creatures behind the myth of dragons. It's pretty nice, highlight rarely represented fauna like the Siren (my fiest time seeing one), and even has the chad classic Dragonology in there, but also these model of two certain varanids. It also has both a little Archeopteryx and a Pachy-s...

Yeah, despite college, this blog is still planned to resume. Here's a quicky to start things up again and get back my mojo as it were. So back a few weeks ago, me and a friend of mine were gonna got to Heart Lake Conservation Area in Brampton only for it to be closed for the season, so we went to Chingacousy Park instead. We thought it was nice, with iys petting zoo and library within it, and we has just finished making a round about it. But then we saw a banner with a stock model of a  Triceratops on it (one of the better ones anatomically and aesthetically, in my personal opinion). Sure enough, as we went up and passed it, we saw an entire miniature minigolf course of animatronic dinosaurs, many of whom seem to be repurposed into statues, apparently first opened this year. It's name is a cheeky and obvious reference to you know what. Most of the animatronics are of the usual Jurassic Park-aping Awesomebro era with all that entails. I can recognise a few, like Amargasaurus and...

I apologise for the nearly-month hiatus at Mesozoic Mind. I had other projects to work on. But don't worry, this blog is still active, so welcome back everyone. And I've been to a new place today (well kind of, as you shall learn) that's on my my mind today - my Mesozoic mind. Today as part of an excersise walk with my personal trainer, I went along the waterfront of Toronto and eventually went to Budapest Park, located on the west side of Toronto on its Lakeshore. It wasn't planned, and I have never set foot thewre, but we did so. Budapest Park itself is a smalk lakeside park not unlike others out there, save for one thing I came for now that it was in walking distance for me: it has dinosaur statues. The statues consist of two ornithischians, Chasmosaurus and a Stegosaurus . They are made of concrete and are small, at the very least as tall as me. Apparently they came from a now-closed park open in the 1960's and 70's in Huntsville, Muskoka Dinosaur Land, that...