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by Jill Pantozzi | 11:30 am, March 23rd, 2013
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by Jill Pantozzi | 11:30 am, March 23rd, 2013
by Rebecca Pahle | 1:15 pm, March 11th, 2013
I will never get tired of watching behind-the-scenes dinosaur footage from Jurassic Park. Never. There’s a reason the special effects of that movie have aged so well, and that reason is puppets. The Stan Winston School, which made the dinos we all know and love so very much, previously released a video about the making of the Velociraptor. And now the spitting dinosaur (or Dilophosaurus, if we’ve being technical) that kills poor Nedry gets its turn in the spotlight.
Favorite part: “This is one of the coolest tongues I’ve ever done.”
(via: io9)
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READ MOREby Jill Pantozzi | 2:20 pm, February 5th, 2013
Guitarist Eric Calderone, you have taken be back to high school, the days when I was in love when ALL THE BAND MEMBERS. Thank you for that. But also, thank you for giving me Jurassic Park feels. Those are always welcome. Now if you’ll all excuse me, I’m going to go picture a Brontosaurus headbanging.
(via /Film)
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by Rebecca Pahle | 4:15 pm, January 30th, 2013
Eosinopteryx brevipenna is small (less than a foot long), feathered, and flightless. It’s basically the smaller, dinosaur version of a penguin. Probably 0% scientifically accurate, but you know what? I don’t care. I want to live in a world where there was once a dinosaur penguin. Let me have this.
READ MOREby Rebecca Pahle | 5:44 pm, January 3rd, 2013
Quentin Tarnatino loves his pop culture references. No, wait, that’s not saying it right: Quentin Tarantino looOOOoOooOOves his pop culture references. The crew at CollegeHumor has illustrated just how true that is with a five-minute video compiling every single pop culture reference in his films, arranged in chronological order.
They left out Django Unchained, however. But Rebecca, you might say. There are no pop culture references in Django. It took place before there were somewhat obscure-yet-cool movies and TV shows for Tarantino to reference! Yes. That’s true. But he still managed it.
READ MOREby Jill Pantozzi | 11:45 am, December 14th, 2012
by Rebecca Pahle | 11:00 am, December 5th, 2012
The oldest dinosaur in the world has been found, but paleontologists didn’t discover the fossil (y’see, because it’s really, really old and also because it’s a literal fossil… oh, shut up, I haven’t had my mocha yet) at some Jurassic Park-esque dig. Nope. It had just been squirreled away in a closet for some 50-odd years.
In the store room the Natural History Museum in London, to be exact. The remains were dug up in Tanzania in the mid-1930s and were studied for several decades before being put into storage. Recent study dates the new species, called Nyasasaurus parringtoni, at between 247 million and 235 million years old, making it between 10 and 15 million years older than the next-oldest dinosaur we know about.
READ MOREby Rebecca Pahle | 11:25 am, November 30th, 2012
With Suck UK‘s 3D Dinosaur Cookie Cutters you can have a little fun with a dino-on-dino food fight before swooping down to pull a reverse-Jurassic Park and devour them all with your weaksauce human teeth.
The point is… they are alive when you start to eat them.
Pics of the disassembled stegosaurus and its cookie cutter counterparts are after the jump.
READ MOREby Rebecca Pahle | 4:14 pm, November 8th, 2012
Paleontologists have discovered a meat-eating dinosaur as big as the T. Rex that lived in North Africa about 95 million years ago. And while that’s cool on its own, what’s even better is what the new species was named: Sauroniops pachytholus, which translates in Greek to “eye of Sauron.”
It pleases my heart when scientists are geeky.
READ MOREby Rebecca Pahle | 2:30 pm, October 14th, 2012
We might have dodged a bullet when William Monahan and John Sayles‘ 2005 Jurassic Park 4 script never made it off the ground. Some recently-uncovered—but not official, according to ILM—concept art has given us a look at the truly weird movie their story concept would have resulted in. How weird, you ask? Dinosaur-human hybrids. That can use guns.
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