This was when I seriously began to wonder if I'd accidentally torrented an April Fool's version of Prehistoric Planet
but I looked it up and, amazingly, they are real https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258764-squid-like-creature-that-looked-like-a-giant-paperclip-lived-200-years/
#PrehistoricPlanet2 #cephalopods #ammonites #Cephalopoda #Ammonoidea
Seeing damselflies in the swamps episode of #PrehistoricPlanet2 makes me think, arthropods are so often depicted as sort of unchanging background detail, when their story is far longer and grander than any vertebrates'.
I would love to see arthropod evolution get the #PrehistoricPlanet treatment—although maybe things are too speculative for a narrative treatment.
The alien Cambrian sea, the journeys onto (and off of) land, the heady atmosphere of the Carboniferous, the great flowering of, well, flowers, and all the ecological possibilities that opened up, and of course the obligatory depressing last chapter on contemporary land arthropod declines.
Some key evolutionary developments that would be covered: wings, metamorphosis, eusociality, venom, spider silk (and webs! Aerial capture webs are a surprisingly late arrival), eyes and other sensory organs, sex (e. g. extreme sexual size dimorphism, parthenogenesis, thelytoky/arrhenotoky, all the weird shit mites get up to), parasitism.
David Attenborough: This is the largest expanse of lava to flood the earth for 100 million years.
me: [banging on arm of table] DEC-CAN TRAPS! DEC-CAN TRAPS! DEC-CAN TRAPS!!
David Attenborough: The Deccan, in central India,
me: YESSSSSSSSS
Starting in on #PrehistoricPlanet2 and you have no idea how badly I want this show to end with the giant fiery meteor. C'mon guys. It's the ultimate canon "rocks fall, everyone dies". The perfect out.
(I would also kill for a "behind the scenes" series that is about sending camera crews back in time. Kind of like _Stargate_ but the mission is "sit in a hut for six months and get 5 minutes' footage of this hadrosaur.")
“What’s cookin’, good lookin’?”
Have some animated fan art of the flirty #Hatzegopteryx from #PrehistoricPlanet2 in a rubber hose style!
#animation #2danimation #handdrawn #Cuphead #rubberhose #cartoon #PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetfanart #Hatzegopteryx
#PrehistoricPlanet2 mit dem Kind gucken ist noch mal ein Level toller.
Das staunen über die Dinos und Co. und die Faszination der ganzen Inszenierung 😍.
„Die Musik ist auch immer so toll!“
Ooohja.
How did I not know there was a #PrehistoricPlanet2 out last week?!
I'm excited to see it continue, although I do have mixed feelings about them cutting away to the "Uncovered" section at the end.
On one hand, at least they're explaining the science and justifying some of their speculation now.
On the other hand, what made Season 1 so great was the Planet Earth/Walking With Dinosaurs vibe where they didn't do that--where it was fully immersive and set entirely in the dinosaurs' world.
Young Pectinodon from Prehistoric Planet Season 2
#paleoart #palaeoart #art #dinosaur #Pectinodon #Theropod #Prehistoricplanet2 #Prehistoricplanet
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