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hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the man behind some of my favourite documentary music Ben Bartlett apparently passed away

#ben bartlett #walking with dinosaurs #walking with beasts

transparentfossil

Hollardops Trilobite

#yuuupppp #our guys

they’re fixing the water an update early!!!! LETS GET WET WAHOOOOOOO

#prehistoric kingdom #park sim #LETS GET WET

now THIS, this i can get behind

#surviving earth #that funny fish with no jaws that i can’t remember the name of

photon-bytez

TWO SE clips in the same month?! Double that with this...

It absolutely stands to reason that this show is almost here. Hopefully for real this time.

also...

@knuppitalism-with-ue, ya sly dog.

knuppitalism-with-ue

Here a better view of the concept art I made for Surviving Earth

#paleoart #palaeoblr #triassic #saurosuchus #surviving earth

The Dinosaurs Episode 1 review aka Steven Spielberg Strikes Again

To get it out of the way, on the great grand rating scale of dinosaur documentaries The Dinosaurs sits around where When Dinosaurs Roamed America does, with a sprinkling of Dinosaur Revolution to taste. The science is solid, the models are ugly, the script is messy and we’ll go through these play by play.

It was amazing to hear the words Carnian Pluvial in the show, it was exactly what a new deep time documentary should cover to stand out! Showing an example of the common ancestor of dinosaurs in Marasuchus was also enjoyable, even if they include strange lines such as “a meal worthy of her bloodline” in the narration.

Honestly the narration was the weakest part of the episode for me, it is overly dramatic and repetitive. Take a drink every time Freeman says rise of the dinosaurs and you won’t even be able to say Liliensternus by the end. There’s other strange lines that reference bloodlines, ancient nemesis, and one that mischaracterizes evolution as improvement. Even beyond the narration the script feels over dramatized, the episode itself ends with a Liliensternus facing off a Psuedosuchian, on a cliffside while the earth itself explodes in the background. It is so unsubtle to the point of being shocking! I will allow myself ONE comparison to Walking With Dinosaurs, in the transference of ecological dominance of other reptiles to dinosaurs. WWD has the representative of the old guard (Postosuchus) eaten from the inside out by the new heirs of the Earth. A much more respectful and sad metaphor for the end of the Triassic versus the villainous face off with the psuedosuchian (Smok i think) in TD.

To wrap it up, i think about 60% of the animal models i’ve seen in the show so far are unappealing. They’re not necessarily inaccurate but they all feel off in some way or another outside of Plateosaurus. They have this… cartoonish look to them, they don’t quite feel like real animals and the script was already hurting the show in that department. And while it resembles Dinosaur Revolution in its dramatic tellings of dinosaurian life, it doesn’t even come close to the striking figures the animals cut. Nearly all the animals in The Dinosaurs are a shade of brown, only Procompsognathus sports a bit of rosey pink.

one last thing, the music is super generic, add it onto the pile of this show not really having a vibe

#the dinosaurs #netflix slop #review #the kid thoughts

we gotta stop ILM from making any more dinosaur models

proper Pachycephalosaurus for comparison

#the dinosaurs #netflix #pachycephalosaurus #paleoart

kwhalord

Quick sketch of the new guy

cretaceous-kid

it’s actually crazy how it’s not feathers or pycnofibers but a secret third thing

#haolong #dinosaurs #paleoart

ANTI-LIFE ON OUR PLANET AKTIONISTS HOLD THE LINE SAY NO TO THE DINOSAURS

#HellNoNetflix #UglyAssCartoonAnimals #SpitOnMorganFreeman

knuppitalism-with-ue

Manipulonyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands! The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE IS A SPIKE ON THE PALM?!

Anyway, Happy Holidays!

#paleoart #sciart #palaeoblr #cretaceous #alvarezsaur #manipulonyx

ravewing

anomalocaris festivities

#anomalocaris #cambrian #paleozoic #christmas

paleosworld27

Mammoth Claus and his “reindeer” helper are here to give presents to all the good caveboys and cavegirls on Christmas Day (even if Jesus won’t be born for another 20,000 years later)

#paleontology #cenozoic #woolly mammoth #irish elk #christmas #paleoart