Mesozoic Mind

(Note: video provided may have stuff missing from original cut) In 2005 and 2009, two specials aired on the Discovery Channel, back when it was actually about science and documentaries. These were both called called Dino Lab , and they had a rather novel premise: instead of simply being a doc of talking heads with occasional vignettes of prehistoric life or a nature documentary-style presentation with the occasional talking head, the show has a laboratory in which dinosaurs are brought into and put through experiments for scientists to study. Such a premise is pretty interesting, if an unusual one that invites more questions (where did the dinosaurs come from? Why is the T. rex first not at the lab?). The first special, from 2005,had a special place to me, as the first one was one of the first docs I saw as a kid on TV, when I was very young. I remember seeing both a T. rex on a treadmill and a plesiosaur splashing a guy with water. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll start off with it's ...

Ahh, childhood memories.... In Middle School, back in the day of the early 2010’s, there was one book in particular I loved to read at the school library. Its name? Cameron and the Dinosaurs , a 2009 graphic novel by Scott Christian Sava. It tells the story of Cameron, a young boy in a wheelchair who encounters four living, talking dinosaurs: Brachiosaurus leader Vinnie, Tyrannosaurus fighter Charlie, Pterodactyl scout Dee Dee, and Triceratops tactician Lizzy. After initially being terrified of them (as you’d expect), he befriends them. However, the evil Professor Pointdexter C. Poppycock and the organisation BURPS (Brotherhood of Universal Revolution for Political Subterfuge), who created the dinosaurs, want to recapture them to take over the world. Its up to the dinosaurs and Cameron to stop them and save the day from them and four evil robots built by Poppycock. Between the premise of dinosaurs, and its unique disabled hero, I was enamoured with it. I had the great fortune through a...

Hello, salaam, and bonjour, everyone lucky enough to stumble upon this (to those from Discord, hello to you too). Welcome to Mesozoic Mind. My name is Zain Ahmed. I am not a bona fide palaeontologist, writer, or artist. In fact, I have not even started college, university, or any post-secondary education yet. Rather, I am simply just a young adult with a love of the natural sciences and history. Nevertheless, I have a ton of projects both personal and real, and in fact i’m already working on a book of mine, which you will see throughout this place. I will display others of these ideas here, as well as so much more, such as reviews of all thing palaeo: books, shows, documentaries, movies, and even places, by which museums and attractions, though given 2021’s current situation its unlikely at best). I will also give my own thoughts and opinions* about trends and events in palaeo-media, paleoart, and sci coms (that’s science communication). *And also Rants, depending on how bad I’m feelin...