Mesozoic Mind

Happy holidays! Here's what I got for y'all this Christmas day, two very similar but different stories of prehistoric survival. Swampland Remember the book Hatchet ? No not the slasher film, the book about a teen who gets stranded in the Canadian wilderness and must survive the elements until rescued. Swampland would be a story (ideally a YA novel) like it, or perhaps Yellowjackets , where a group of teens at a gathering wake up to find themselves back 76 million years ago, and naturally must survive both the local fauna of the time. Other teen stuff ensues, like romance, love triangles, bonding, and feuding. So basically Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous . Accuracy would be a given, though it might be because I cannot write let alone picture believable teens for $#!+, and I'd rather focus on that. Yes, there would be an antagonistic tyrannosaur against the group, a male Albertosaurus . His main  reason for constantly going after the humans would be a mix of wanting to elimin...

Welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog where I look at all kinds of dinosaur-related media (but mostly documentaries with the occasional book) We're continuing Marvel's 1992 miniseries of dinosaur comics, Dinosaurs: A Celebration  with the second issue ( read here - at your own risk ), this issue focusing on small theropods and sauropods. First, observe the Oviraptor (drawn by John Bolton) on the cover, and boy its excellent. it really nails the downright alien bird feel that oviraptorids had, helped by it resembling a macaw due to the stripes on the chees and general head colours. It's even got feathers on it, not too bad for 1992. The detail also deserves mention: notive the holes and scratches in the beak, or the texture of the feathers. Not to sure about the wide tongue though, as I lean more to it having a thin, immobile tongue. The weirdly vampiric-looking teeth (while accurate) are also off to me. The encyclopaedia chapters cover the following topics. Unlike last ti...