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Happy holidays! Today's article isn't by me, but an acquaintance of mine Mason Pierce, A.K.A Mr-Ultra, and I helped work on it. He's a guy who already posted this on his Tumblr , we agreed it would also be posted here with a few mods added (see if you can spot them). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prehistoric Planet Season Three Now, it should be no secret that I frankly adore Prehistoric Planet for what it is. I’ve already done a whole article going over what a possible 2nd season would be like, and now that it’s been months since the release of the actual Season 2, I’ve come to accept how it returned to the Maasrichtian of the Late Cretaceous. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for PHP to showcase animals and habitats from other time periods as much as the next guy, as I think a season based on the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic would be great. However, with that said, I’m content with the show staying within the Maasrichtian for a...

  The Hatchling premeired on October 17 last week from this mini-review's posting. I watched it the moment it came out, and here are my thoughts on it (if you haven't seen my Twitter tweet on it). I think it's excellent. First and foremost, the visuals for the dinosaurs done by Max Bellomio ( Forgotten Bloodlines fame) are excellent and highly accurate, provided by Max Bellomio. The short's runtime, while only 10 minutes, is still rather well paced, playing out like an excerpt from a feature length film, aided by great performances from the actors (I hope they go onto bigger things), and keeps the other dinosaurs in it only briefly to keep focus on the Deinocheirus . I also like how the characters actually do address that the dinosaurs showing up and making themselves at home would be bad for the eosystem no matter what (something I wish a certain Jurassic Park film did in detail, but enough of that). The music is also nice too, carrying the classic 80's and 90...

Hello, I wanted to bring to your awareness a short film coming this month and only announced yesterday, called The Hatchling . Not much is known so far besides a score piece being released, but won't stop me from writing about it. First, the wide beak of the Hatchling and the claws show it's going to have the giant duck-like Deinocherirus as the dinosaur at the heart of it. As someone who loves  Deinocheirus  and how bizarre it is, I'm on board with seeing it. This probably one of the first appearences of it in fiction as opposed to a non-fiction work like documentaries or books. And of course I'm glad they chose a dino like Deino instead of thw usual Rex or herbivore we've seen a milliomn times in stories like these. The short also appears to be done in the now-classic 80's throwback style, like a Saurian version of Stranger Things , as evidenced. 1980's throwbacks are so common these days, aren't they? Like, the hand drawn poster style is almost as es...

Hello, smd welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog that's ostensibly about all things mesozoic but is about mostly documentaries. Today, we are focusing on a documentary from 2019 co-produced between Japan's NHK and the American streaming service CuriosityStream, the awkwardly-titled  Amazing Dinoworld . When it debuted, it was a bit of a big deal in palaeo-media circles, as it was pretty much the first big dinosaur documentary in years, coming during a dry spell for palaeo-documentaries in the middle and late 2010's, which were usually one-off specials and never really stuck or made too big an impact; there weren't really any equivelents of Walking with Dinosaurs , Dinosaur Planet , or even Dinosaur Revolution earlier in the decade. But then came this, first appaing in the form of trailers and promos with Japanese titles, and theyu looked fantastic, with feathers on full display. I bought a subsctiption to CuriosityStream just to watch it on end, and I loved every min...