Just want to add this real quick because it’s important.
I know it’s tempting to want to pirate this series but if you have the money then PLEASE don’t. Apple TV+ is only $5 a month so you can just pay for a month, watch the series (maybe multiple times) and then cancel. You could even just use the 1 week free trial if you need to. But please, let’s show the creators of the series (including actual paleoartists and scientists!) our support so that we can maybe see a season 2 or even a renewed interest in paleo media in general.
We open on my new favorite character to love-hate, Eugene — whom I will be referring to as “Doctor Mullet” for the rest of ever — who is saying, “Looking at the fossil records, you cannot say for certain that this infection isn’t what killed the dinosaurs.” Um. Um? No. I’m pretty sure I can say for certain that it wasn’t, because there aren’t zombie dinosaurs currently walking around. Although I’m going to make a note of that idea for my next pitch meeting with Asylum Entertainment.
Another quick reminder since i start seeing people saying “UwU both are good” in the tags and reblogs.
Ian Malcolm probably has this on a PowerPoint somewhere.
Ok now this is an off topic reply i can get behind.
I’m okay with the feathers but I still want it to have hands
I will note that “wanting” isn’t really an applicable sentiment when it comes to scientific facts, things are how they are regardless of if you want it or not, however you’ll be happy to know that dromaeosaurs did have hands, in fact, the primaries specifically grow out of the second finger, which still exists in birds today (seen in yellow on the diagram below, note how the first finger, while small, is also still present).
( Source: Velociraptor Skeletal by Scott Hartman )
Had the pleasure of working on these absolute weirdos for PBS Eons’s latest episode, the alvarezsaurids BannykusandAlbertonykus. Check out this week’s video on the evolution of these dinosaurian anteaters!
I just watched the new Jenny Nicholson video on The Land Before Time movies, and I just realized something. There is a movie where some alien dinosaurs show up to tell the main characters about space. This is kind of a really big deal, because this implies that an intelligent species with interstellar travel has landed on prehistoric Earth and found living beings that they can communicate with. This suggests that The Land Before Time movies are not just stories told through the lens of normal dinosaurs, but Littlefoot and friends are actually intelligent creatures, the first on Earth before humans ever existed. Did the meteor eventually kill them all and erase them from history? Or is The Land Before Time a prequel to Dinotopia?
Also, the fact that the aliens are such similar looking dinosaurs to the ones found on Earth suggests that the particular way life developed here is the common way it develops everywhere. What are the odds of two intelligent species from completely different worlds looking land functioning the same, after all? The aliens were quick to try to uplift them, too, so assuming their presence is benevolent, they must have been convinced that the Earth dinosaurs were just as intelligent and capable as them to start exploring space.
But, before they could, an extinction level event destroyed them all, leading to the rise of mammals instead. Perhaps, on a cosmic scale, intelligent dinosaurs are the norm, and WE are the anomaly. Do you think that’s why we see so many UFOs but none of them have tried to contact and uplift us yet? Do you think those space dinosaurs are fascinated by this unpredictable turn of events, and are more interested in seeing how a rare mammalian culture would progress to space age without alien interference?
OR ALTERNATIVELY
Prehistoric Earth dinos DID get successfully uplifted, and they were able to leave the planet before the meteor struck, intending to come back after a few million years to repopulate their original homeworld once it has healed, only to find a bunch of weird ass mammals running around thinking that they own the place, and the dinosaurs aren’t not even mad, ‘cause that’s amazing.
Either way, this means that in The Land Before Time extended universe, inside of every blurry picture of a flying saucer there is a velociraptor looking down at us, scratching its chin in deep contemplative thought.
I’m presently lamenting the loss of my best crowquill pen nib. It was consumed by the sink drain monster. e_e
I really hope my friend got this; he may be out of town for the holidays…
I had already done an Ankylosaurus in profile, so I made this one with his tail raised up. It resulted in him looking a little combative as he emerges from his icey cave. Thus the name, “Get Off My Lawn”.
lineage of theropods that include Allosaurs and carcharodontosaurids among other families. Many more are included on my YT video for this group. This chart is now also available at Redbubble for prints and more.
