Re: 'Walking with Monsters' or 'Before the Dinosaurs'

[John Scannella <jscannella@gmail.com>]

  I really enjoyed 'Before the Dinosaurs/Walking with Monsters' - but
it would've been nice if they'd included a few brief talks with
paleontologists so viewers could see some of the actual fossils.  The
remains of eurypterids and giant millipedes don't seem to get enough
airtime these days.
  Perhaps now that they've given a brief overview of each of the major
eras of life on Earth they'll go back for a deeper look into each of
them.  'Walking with Dinosaurs 2' would certainly be welcome -
especially with the advances in CGI since the original.  It would be
great to see _Maiasaura_, _Spinosaurus_ and the Liaoning Fauna brought
to life on one of these programs.

  John Scannella

On 11/6/05, paul w sparks <pws@psparks.us> wrote:
> The mouth of the anomalocaris is on the bottom of its head and the
> claspers were holding the food more or less where that mouth was. The
> mouth of the A is almost unique in that its a round structure with
> "teeth" coming in from all sides to crush the food. There are fossils
> of trilobytes that have a chunk bit out of them by this interesting
> animal.
> p sparks
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: 'Walking with Monsters' or 'Before the Dinosaurs'
> > From: Eric Martichuski <herewiss13@hotmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, November 05, 2005 10:19 pm
> > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> >
> > A couple observations:
> >
> > 1) Had some trouble figuring out just how Anomalocaris got the food from
> > those lovely grasping arms to the mouth.  It didn't seem to eat, it just
> > liked to hold onto things. ;-)
> >
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