Mesozoic Mind

Happy holidays everyone! What better way to celebrate the festive season at Mesozoic Mind then a christmas film about prehistory? Well options are VERY limited, so the only thing I can find is something from the time-honoured tradition of crappy, cheap animated christmas specials,  The Christmas Dinosaur (2004). Created by the sadly now-defunct PorchLight Entertainment, it tells the story of a young dinosaur-obsessed kid named Jason Barnes who decides sneak into the Christmas presents gifted to him, only to discover the one for him isn't the toy he wanted, but a real egg that hatches into a Quetzalcoatlus . Which is you know, not a dinosaur? Even the target audience knew better, not to mention the film keeps flip-flopping on calling it a dinosaur versus (correctly) a pterosaur. Anyways, he adopts it as a pet, and has fun with it as it grows up while having to dodge his parents and his nosy, grumpy neighbour to keep them from finding out about the flapling, but when Spot gets lone...

For this week's RP-WIDOTD, I'd like to credit museum employee and writer for the blog Extinct Monsters Ben H. Miller, whose series of Framing Fossil Exhibits  and the nature of early fossil exhibits and the popular stereotypes being parades of big skeleton mounts was the inspiration for this idea, conceived at 2 AM in the morning. Towering Titans This would be a museum exhibit homaging the idea of mount after mount of giant prehistoric creatures, only here having a more nuanced take on such, focusing on just how these big creatures could evolve in the first place, wheher its interal factors, like dense bones or airsacs to lighten the body, or external factors, like suitable climates and vegetation. The vast majority of the exhibit would be a central platform, with additional ones around the perimitre of the exhibit hall. The first creatures museum-goers would see even before entering from whatever main hall of the museum is are a pair of Edmontosaurus , among the biggest of t...