In news that makes me wish I was a millionaire (full disclosure: all news makes me with I was a millionaire), Trey the juvenile triceratops fossil is scheduled to go up for auction beginning March 17th. The roughly three-quarters grown specimen will be sold by digital auction house Joopiter, and
Executively produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, The Dinosaurs is an upcoming documentary from Netflix detailing the rise and fall of everyone’s favorite prehistoric animals. Premiering March 6th, I did expect the computer graphics to be better. From the looks of things, we haven’t really progressed much
These are a couple video of San Francisco lawyer Trevor Mead’s Doleresaurus costume, a blue-LED illuminated t-rex exoskeleton he likes to wear around Haight Street and Dolores Park at sunset. Hey — we all spend our evenings differently. Unless you spend yours eating multiple TV dinners back-to-back and yelling at
These are two videos from Youtuber CoolioArt, who added feathers and wings to the raptors in Jurassic Park for a more authentic appearance. Unfortunately, he didn’t also make them turkey-sized like actual raptors. Granted, dinosaurs did exist that were similar to the velociraptors seen in the movie (like Deinonychus and
This is a video from informative Youtuber ReYOUniverso imagining if the history of life on earth were packed into a 24 hour period. If that were the case, the first fully formed cells come into existence at 4:30AM, and it takes all the way until 9:34PM for plants to emerge
Because it’s reassuring to know somebody is putting AI to good use to better the planet, these are a couple scenes from Jurassic Park that have been edited with artificial intelligence to give the look they were filmed in portrait mode on an iPhone. It does have a certain look
This is a video of “freelance paleoartist and science communicator” Tyler Stone explaining how dinosaurs were able to grow so insanely huge. SPOILER: Nothing to do with the earth’s gravity or oxygen supply. It involves the dinosaurs’ air sacs (still present in modern birds), which allowed them to remain relatively
Ready to keep you company whenever you JurASSic Park yourself on the toilet (I’m an idiot and fully aware) to take care of business and do some light Instagram scrolling comes this molded resin velociraptor toilet paper holder. Available on Amazon (affiliate link, also available in t-rex, pic below), this