Mesozoic Mind

Hello, everyone (and boy there's little chance of topping the previous Stratigraphy post for a long time, like holy $#!+). Today, we're gonna do our second instalment of Palaeo-Redo. Specifically, we're gonna give a makeover to the 2007 Imax documentary Dinosaurs Alive!  by Giant Screen Films, also the source of the roaring dinosaur so many use on the internet. While I haven't reviewed  Dinosaurs Alive yet, I will tell you there isn't much in the way of Dinosaurs being alive in the film through CG sequences, which are fairly short and few, with most of the doc focusing on palaeontologists of the American Museum of Natural History. While not a bad idea on paper, the fact that there isn't all that much dinosaurs (what people pretty much come for) in it makes it in my opinion a bit of a letdown, not helped by a sluggish pace that makes it hard to get through. This is a shame, as the models for the prehistoric life are all pretty good. But what if things had gone a...

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...