Paleo Confessions

[Giganotosaurus]

Jurassic Park III is my favorite sequel in the Jurassic franchise. It's a short, fun adventure with great special effects.

I prefer Ankylosaurus over Triceratops and Stegosaurus!

The T Rex is used way too often in media, I'm glad it was used sparingly in Jurassic World and Dominion.

Bring on Rebirth!!!!

[fgh46]

It was obvious - I really love mammoths and I think that the mass media has seriously neglected other species, except for the woolly and Columbian!
I love the first season of Primeval for the lack of dinosaurs in it!
I think that giant arthropods of the past and mammal-like reptilia should stop taking third place in other people's films and series - they should make films about them themselves!
I love the first Ice Age more than Pixar and Dreamworks cartoons!
I love science fiction writers from the USSR more than Ray Bradbury and Arthur Clarke - while in their books a miserable bunch of people barely kills one Tyrannosaurus, their heroes are confronted by a whole zoo of extinct, and even undiscovered animals - and this happened in Soviet Russia long before Jurassic Park and the Valley of Gwangi!
I think Professor Challenger is a more interesting character than Sherlock Holmes, but I think The Lost World and its sequels need a Sherlock-style adaptation - set in the present day, with eco-terrorists instead of slave traders, and the villain should be someone like Kent Howard - a master of debate for the Creationists, but who doesn't pay taxes, which is what got him behind bars!

[GojiraGuy1954]

For like six years of my life I thought the word was "Metazoic" and not "Mesozoic" until my older brother corrected me on it

[fgh46]

I think that early archosaurs and crocodylomorphs are unfairly neglected in popular culture.
Because of this, in most of the non-specialized literature and documentaries that I watched, the kingdom of amphibians of the late Permian-early Triassic suddenly disappears and here are Dakosaurus and Goniofolis!
Exceptions are Walking with Monsters, but in Walking with Dinosaurs, the kulazuhs without showing the regression and extinction of the kingdom of giant amphibians are a real moment of the Big-lipped Alligator!

[Protopatch]

I don't buy the hypothesis whereby dinosaurs might have had long-term unions, as suggested in a recent Youtube video.
It sounds too romantic to me, not enough scientifically documented nor demonstrable with an absolute certainty.

[crazy8wizard]

They had long term unions for the health insurance benefits obviously.

[stargatedalek]

I don't buy the hypothesis whereby dinosaurs might have had long-term unions, as suggested in a recent Youtube video.
It sounds too romantic to me, not enough scientifically documented nor demonstrable with an absolute certainty.

I think when talking about a group as broad as dinosaurs it becomes inevitable. Look within any large animal group and you will find examples that pair long term or for life and others that don't.

[Protopatch]

I don't buy the hypothesis whereby dinosaurs might have had long-term unions, as suggested in a recent Youtube video.
It sounds too romantic to me, not enough scientifically documented nor demonstrable with an absolute certainty.

I think when talking about a group as broad as dinosaurs it becomes inevitable. Look within any large animal group and you will find examples that pair long term or for life and others that don't.

Sure, but I wouldn't talk about "Love" 

[stargatedalek]

Love is an extremely abstract concept and can be used broadly. I love watching tv, playing games, my favourite foods, and my friends, in the same ways that many animals do! But I also love my girlfriend in an entirely different way that is not translatable to those kinds of "love".

Do animals feel romantic love? Some animals very clearly do not express romantic attraction, forming pairs only for reproduction, while others do seem to form romantic pairs and stay together for years, though it's hard to really say for certain that includes romantic love specifically when it could be that they are staying together because they are something more equivalent to friends.

[GojiraGuy1954]

There are plenty of monogamous bird species lol

[Protopatch]

Love is an extremely abstract concept and can be used broadly. I love watching tv, playing games, my favourite foods, and my friends, in the same ways that many animals do! But I also love my girlfriend in an entirely different way that is not translatable to those kinds of "love".

Do animals feel romantic love? Some animals very clearly do not express romantic attraction, forming pairs only for reproduction, while others do seem to form romantic pairs and stay together for years, though it's hard to really say for certain that includes romantic love specifically when it could be that they are staying together because they are something more equivalent to friends.

This is a very interesting analysis, thank you.
Yeah actually (and I probably should have specified it), my confession was referring to a recent video on Youtube which title begins by "Love in the Time of dinosaurs". Could sound rather "commercial" first but after watching it, it indeed turned out to be completely speculative.