Amazing Dinoworld: The Feather Revolution: A Review
Hello, smd welcome back to Mesozoic Mind, the blog that's ostensibly about all things mesozoic but is about mostly documentaries. Today, we are focusing on a documentary from 2019 co-produced between Japan's NHK and the American streaming service CuriosityStream, the awkwardly-titled Amazing Dinoworld . When it debuted, it was a bit of a big deal in palaeo-media circles, as it was pretty much the first big dinosaur documentary in years, coming during a dry spell for palaeo-documentaries in the middle and late 2010's, which were usually one-off specials and never really stuck or made too big an impact; there weren't really any equivelents of Walking with Dinosaurs , Dinosaur Planet , or even Dinosaur Revolution earlier in the decade. But then came this, first appaing in the form of trailers and promos with Japanese titles, and theyu looked fantastic, with feathers on full display. I bought a subsctiption to CuriosityStream just to watch it on end, and I loved every min...