The Land Before Time (1988) played a huge role in sparking my early love of dinosaurs. Born in the early ’80s, this movie was made for my generation, and it absolutely hit the mark with me. It was one of the few VHS tapes I owned, since most of what we watched back then was either rented or recorded off of TV, and I watched it constantly. To this day, I still find myself quoting […]
If you were suddenly teleported back to the Triassic period and found yourself being chased by a terrifying meat-eating reptile, you might struggle to tell whether it was a dinosaur or not. While dinosaurs did rise to dominance in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, they were just one of many archosaur groups thriving in the Triassic, a world still recovering from the worst […]
I know pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs, but it feels like they should be, right? I mean I get it, dinosaurs are defined by their skeleton and evolutionary history, all sharing an upright posture yadda yadda yadda. But I didn’t grow up playing dinosaurs and their somewhat-related reptile cousins who happen to fly and / or swim […]