Mesozoic Mind

  Just wanted to give this little indie project attention, even more then it already has on other platforms. Concept art This is an animated series created by Ben Mulot and Floating Rock Studio, with a possible game coming too. Pretty ambitious stuff.  Kyōryū (after the Japanese word for dinosaur) is about a post-apocalyptic Japan where genetically ressurrected prehistoric life lives wild in the extinction of humanity, and battle among themselves for survival, like an improved version of Jurassic World Dominion , Tokyo Jungle , or Stray , depending on what you think it's most like out of the three. The CG is astounding, and this is just the teaser; imagine what the full series will do. The creatures move with visible weight and have excellent detailing. They are also stylised, yet still retain accurate designs (for the most part). The samurai-like armour on the Tyrannosaurus stands out, looking badass and fits how they apparently will be Shogun-esque leaders of the world ...

After a week-long delay, I finally went to the Royal Ontario Museum to visit a new exhibit, once on Dec. 12 and the next on 19th. While the museum already has galleries for fossil fauna of the Mesozoic era and the Cenozoic era, for the longest time it had no gallery for the Paleozoic before either of them. Shame, as the museum has a pretty good collection, especially from the Burgess Shale in BC, easily one of the most iconic fossil deposits ever. Fortunately, over the course of the last decade the ROM has worked to rectify this. Taking an old event space on the second floor, it has turned it into the Willner Madge Dawn of Life Gallery . this is what it was before The exhibit starts off with a round space introducing the concepts of the exhibit, with at its center a skull of the armoured fish Dunkleosteus  and other fossils along the walls, such as trilobites, ancient plants, and most notably on the wall a giant cast of the floor of Newfoundland's Mistaken Point, and highlighting t...