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Then to juxtapose that, the movie was centered around him returning a child to a tribe of Homo neanderthalensis despite the fact that they are members of the group of animals actively hunting them down? That the child they’re saving very likely will become a part of his species’ destruction? That every one of the main and background characters are at all-but-certain danger due to their presence in the region? That the species of the child will also disappear into the geological past along with the rest of them?

Remember how poignant and silent the return of the baby was?

Unless you’ve ever worked in a capacity like this you cannot possibly understand the ridiculousness that is a corporate producer. I had to fight tooth and nail at one point to convince them that, yes, Triceratops is the proper name and that Ceratops is not the same thing. Corporate suits fundamentally do not care about the end product, just the end profit to be gained.

Paleontologist Jack Horner emailing Jeffrey Epstein thanking him for his visit to Epstein’s private ranch in New Mexico.

This, obviously, doesn’t implicate Horner in any pedophilia or sexual assault. However, given Horner’s sketchy ass past (marrying a 19 year old student & volunteer of his), this certainly looks very bad.

His consistent mention of “the girls” is what’s so horrifying here, now knowing what is known about the ranch.

Bad shit, Jack.

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It’s especially awesome because, in a lot of these cases, there’s no reason for a cinder cone volcano to even be there! It’s just this ever present volcanic threat in all of the prehistoric past.

Usually this is added for the extra drama that it invokes. Which comes across as especially funny because in some cases it’s in the background of several, multi-ton, animals violently murdering one another! It’s the terrifying T. rex, teeth and claws bared, lunging head first into the horns of a pissed off Triceratops, posed in mid-goring action.

There’s blood and growling and exposed bone! But you know what would really kick this up a notch? That’s right. Let’s blow up a fucking mountain! HOORAH!

(In case you thought this was just a thing in vintage paleomedia, here are some modern examples of this in recent years).

In this case, a Tyrannosaurus rex brutally attacks a Carnotaurus and then poses, dramatically, in front of an exploding cinder cone volcano in the background. From Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018).

A selected figure from one of my field reports of 2024. This photo showcases Precambrian gneissic rocks (Gn) that have been intruded by younger Town Mountain Granite (Gr). Since this report was concluded changes have been made to the local geology and the gneissic rock is now understood to actually be a part of the Packsaddle Schist.

The Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco, TX had a really cool exhibit on “Animals in Advertising.”

Out of the way first, yeah it’s a pretty biased exhibit.

1. It’s Dr. Pepper owned products only. That’s a given.

2. Its only focus is how awesome and creative it is to use animals to advertise. As a result, it’s neatly walks around the ethical issues of live animals and also any issues with advertising in general.

Despite this, it was pretty fascinating. Obviously, there’s a neat area on how Dinosaurs have been used in advertising. They highlighted an old “win a solid gold dinosaur” campaign ran years ago. If you know me, you know I love me some vintage depictions of paleontology. This stuff scratches the right itch!

The eagle eyed among you notice that Paleoartist Mark Hallet’s T. rex design is front and center on a very late 90s Y2K advertising pitch also starring an astronaut and a VR headset. Hallet’s work was ALL over 80s-90’s dinosaur books and posters. If you ever saw the Dinosaur edition of ZooBooks, then you’ll know exactly what I mean.