Planet Dinosaur

So over the weekend I got around to watching the new BBC six-part series called Planet Dinosaur. I had my doubts about the show because I was afraid that it would be just another typical dinosaur documentary. Im sure you all know what im talking about. The intro is always the same "These amazing creatures terrorized our planet for 185 million years blah blah blah, big and scary blah blah meteor blah they all died." Boring. We know. Its common knowledge. After the intro we can only expect one thing really, a 45minute dinosaur peep show with the biggest and the meanest animals getting all the attention. Most likely the line-up will consist of atleast one Tyrannosaur, a raptor or two, some sauropods and a triceratops. Dont get me wrong theres nothing wrong with these dinosaurs but it gets boring. You can only watch a triceratops face off against a T-rex so many times before you start to lose interest.

However it seems all my worries were in vain as this show actually picks some pretty awesome dinosaurs to showcase, and most of them are new discoveries! I really enjoyed watching it all even though it wasnt as indepth as I would have liked it to b and the fact that John Hurt is the narrator definately doesnt work against the series either. The one thing that I kept getting annoyed about was the animations. The BBC usually does a great job with these but for some unknown reason the quality of the dinosaurs in this series seemed sub-par. The dinosaurs seemed really stiff and the movements looked really awkward from time to time but other than that I thought this was a pretty good documentary. I would definately give it a thumbs up if you are thinking about getting your hands on it.

If you are looking to get a dinosaur documentary series though I still say that the best ones to get are either Jurassic Fight Club or Palaeoworld. They are definately my two favourites.

If you have seen the series let me know what you think of it in the comments below, share your thoughts!

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Devonian lurker finally named 10 years after its discovery

Poor Laccognathus embryi. After being discovered alongside a fossil of Tiktaalik roseae, a creature considered to be a missing link between fish and early limbed animals, it was put aside to be named at a later date. Now, finally, 10years and 22specimens later this large ambush predator has finally got a name. It lived in the cold, northern parts of Canada 375million years ago. Back then that part of the world enjoyed a quite warm subtropical environment, I hear its quite nice this time of year.

Anyway enjoy the article!

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Now heres a treat! Some great clips from the BBC of some of the coolest dinosaurs yet discovered.

Enjoy!

Domesticated Jurassic park...

So... I woke up really early today and decided to scour the internet for some more stories for the blog and I came across this one. Once again the article is about 2months old but the content is.. Well... Its interesting. Jack Horner, a palaeontologist that most of us are quite familiar with, has a new wacky and very interesting idea. Basically what he wants to do is try to bring out some dinosaur features in their modern cousins. Interesting but at the same time its a bit on the mad scientist side of things in my opinion. Its just something that I never thought would be possible even at a very small scale. The man has some controversial and odd ideas but some of those ideas have changed our understanding of dinosaurs completely. Dont get me wrong im not trying to badmouth him or anything, the man is a genius but I think this time maybe hes gone a little bit too far. Then again thats what they said when he started proposing that dinosaurs were warm blooded.... I guess only time will tell.

Mega-Croc vs Super-Boa!

This article was posted 2months ago on the NatGeo website and as the name might suggest another giant of the prehistoric has been discovered in, you guessed it, South America. This 20 foot long monster crocodile lurked in the ancient river systems of South America. It lived around 60million years ago and its diet probably consisted mostly of fish. Another interesting thing with this find is that the fossil was found at the same place as the largest snake ever found, Titanoboa, and they even lived at the same time and without a doubt they probably had some pretty epic showdowns. Anywho check out the article!

Cheers
Henrik

Take two... ACTION!

I know I know... Im a terrible person. I abandoned this poor blog while it was still in its infancy but hey guess what?! Im back! After some real-life dramas, being sick and some computor issues im back and the blog will return! Im sure I have the first episode of the podcast somewhere on the harddrive so I will get on that and make it available to you all as fast as I can. Meanwhile please enjoy the daily news updates and dont forget, if you have a question go ahead and send them to me!

/Henrik