Comments on: When Plesiosaurs Ruled the Sea http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/10/19/when-plesiosaurs-ruled-the-sea/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 By: More on Expired Marine Monsters http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/10/19/when-plesiosaurs-ruled-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:36:36 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1506#comment-124 […] in all their incarnations from the Permian to the Big Cretaceous Sleep. I covered two of them in my post on “Sea Monsters” — the plesiosaurs and the mosasaurs — but there are two others: the icthyosaurs and the […]

]]> By: Jennifer Frazer http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/10/19/when-plesiosaurs-ruled-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:33:49 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1506#comment-123 Thanks for the comment! Yes, it was cool they incorporated the story about the nicked fin . . . but that wasn’t the only fossil story they included. They also have a fossil of a mosasaur with a perfectly intact fossil fish in its stomach. They think it choked on the fish since the mosasaur must have died soon after eating it or else the bones of its meal would have been jumbled. They included this little vignette in the film too — if you ever see it, watch for it!

]]> By: Captain Skellett http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/10/19/when-plesiosaurs-ruled-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:04:52 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1506#comment-122 Oh heaps good! Diplodocus was always my favourite, I think I just liked saying it. Didn’t realise the swimming kind weren’t actual dinosaurs, I think you’ve just saved me from a future faux pas! I’m totally with you that it annoys me when they dumb down science for movies and stuff – like calling it “Dolly” – so lame. Just say its freaking name, do you really think it WANTS to be called Dolly? Is it a Doll? I DON’T THINK SO!

I like that they tied in the shark encounter with an actual fossil specimen, kind of a nice touch, and I love how painstaking they were with the accuracy of animation.

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