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 ...

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...

  Just like the ROM visit, I got several books for my birthday. One of them is today's subject, The Dinosaur Hunters *, a book about the history of palaeontology and the study dinosaurs, from the origins of the subject to the impact dinosaurs have on pop culture. It is written by Lowell Dingus with help from Mark Norell, both from and book helped by the venerable American Museum of Natural History. * Not to be confused with another non-fiction book of the same name and subject by Deborah Cadbury. The contents of it are fairly broad in scope. It goes chronologically, and a basic list summary is: Origins of Palaeontology, from the Greek Xenophanes observing fossil shells in mountains to Nicolas Steno's work in geology against Church's dogma. England's discoveries, such as William Buckland and Megalosaurus, the Mantells discovering and describing Iguanodon , and Crystal Palace Park. During and beyond the 1870's, Belgium sees the discovery of more Iguanodon that change...

Alright, we're back to our Dino Lab  duology review, with the other half! Dino Lab II aired in 2009, at a time when the dreck of reality shows were slowly trickling in but Discovery was at least a documentary/educational channel proper (not to mention boasts a lot of nostalgia for Generation Z). For the longest time, this was the only one of the two online, whether in separate videos (now taken down) or currently, on Vimeo (link below). https://vimeo.com/264297389 Here, rather then the standard bright light and open lab, we have a much moodily lit and dark lab. We also have original designs for the dinosaurs courtesy of Modus FX instead of reused Meteor models (since they went bankrupt in 2008). Meanwhile, only Hans Larsson returns as a talking head, and he's joined by David C. Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum (my old stomping grounds might I say) and veterinarian Marie-Josee Limoges of the Granby Zoo in southern Quebec, who compares each dinosaur to a modern creature similar...