#planet dinosaur

[allstarshengans]

I’m on vacation so no drawing but been watching old dino documentary lately and I had to sketch this silly dude (now he gets tail)

[ahopelessblogaboutdinosaurtrain]

Imma give Dinosaur Planet more love, but also, paleo accuracy review and stuff!

EDIT: One point I disagree with RRW with is how he bashed the Majungasaurus cannibalism scene as her being far too reckless "for no reason," when it's pretty clear that she was an angry mother triggered by her kid getting snapped at. She did it for her beebee! 🥺

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Hi! I've seen you discuss many TV series - such as Walking with Dinosaurs/Monsters/Beasts, or Prehistoric Planet - but I don't think I've ever seen you comment on Planet Dinosaur. If you've seen it, I'm curious as to what you thought about it?

As a non-expert palaeo-fan, who has learned much of what they think they know about palaeontology from TV (alongside books), I really appreciate your insights.

It's... extremely awesomebro

everything's a "killer"

birds are dinosaurs until the mass extinction and then they're magically their own thing

focus way too much on dinosaurs fighting than any other kind of behavior

sensationalist language

etc.

[skyradiant]

Top 10 dinosaurs (and other Mesozoic reptiles) of Planet Dinosaur for the tenth anniversary.

[shadows-and-science-gone-mad]

Walking with Dinosaurs holds up so well because it wasn’t trying to be accurate.

They allowed themselves to show some speculative behaviors and anatomy, and the show definitely has a lot of educational elements, but the focus was on good storytelling rather than being 100% accurate to the fossils.

To compare, Planet Dinosaur came out over ten years after WWD, but holds up way worse. The information in both series is equally outdated, but PD prided itself on being completely accurate, to the extent where they cut away from the action every two minutes to show a specific fossil that supports their reconstructions. However, once the field progressed, PD had nothing else to fall back on. Without the accurate science, it lost its primary selling point.

The problem is that paleontology, ironically enough, is a very rapidly evolving field. The most accurate reconstruction ever is going to be horribly obsolete in six months. (Just look at what happened to Spinosaurus recently.) But, a good story will always be a good story.

Even though the science is wrong, Walking with Dinosaurs told a good story. And that’s why it’s still good.

[utoshi-san]

Я фанат динозавров и конечно мне интересно смотреть всякие научные, псевдодокументальные фильмы и сериалы о них. Ну и в тему посмотрела ещё сериал и фильм о существовании цивилизации после людей. Всё очень классное, любителям подобного стоит заценить!

"Прогулки с динозаврами 3D", "Планета динозавров" (мини-сериал), "ВВС: Прогулки с динозаврами" (мини-сериал), "Последние дни динозавров", "Будущее планеты: Жизнь после людей" и "Жизнь после людей" (мини-сериал)

[starburr]

[dinodorks]

Magyarosaurus - Planet Dinosaur (2011)