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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 ...

Two years. Two years at Mesozoic Mind , through ups and downs and bringing you the best I could give you, and expanded my horizons in life, to go where I could only dream of. To celebrate, here's what I made for all of you readers as a gift: remaking Walking with Dinosaurs for the 21st century as I'd do it. Yeah, I know, people stopped doing this kind of thing years ago, but what the heck, I wanted to do it myself, and I only really do the big ones for special occasions like these. The episodes would be quite different from the origials in setting, but would stil have enough rocognisable creature archtypes and plot beats to show which corresponds to which. Although I still see fit to tell you which is which. Also, please forgive any anachronisms in the lineups I have created. I tried my best to avoid them. Also also, the pictures used here serve to get an idea of what things would feel or look like, not be direct representations. Episode One - Archosauria Art by Olmagon Set in...

Dino Death Trap  is one of the more well-known palaeo-documentaries under National Geographic's released in 2007, the same year as fellow well-known ones  Sea Monsters and the cenozoic doc Prehistoic Predators . It's also the one that introduced the early tyrannosaur Guanlong and early ceratopsian Yinlong to me, as with many others. Might I also add it was released under the banner Dinosaurs Unearthed , shared with the documentary about Edmontosaurus , Dino Autopsy  (which we will eventualy get to eventually). The documentary is about palaeontologists from both sides of the Pacific like the iconic Xu Xing and the Tyrell Museum's David Eberth discovering a trove of fossils the Middle Jurassic of northwestern China 160-155 million years ago and working to determine how they fit in dinosaur evolution since not many dinosaur fossils are preserved from the era, in particularly a whole column with layer upon layer of dinosaur skeletons. At the end of the doc we are treated t...