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Say “ahh”

The impression I get is that most people are aware there was an empire but the actual level of knowledge varies hugely.

Maybe it has to do with how it ended, the main perspective I see is essentially “we gave it all up”. We didn’t cling to it with long bloody wars like france so it is less felt.

From what I remember when I went up it in 2014 before it was blocked off, the only information up there were labels with basic info for each skeleton. It didn’t really make much sense beyond “here is iguanodon, here is albertosaurus”

I hope whenever they do redo the exhibit if they get rid of some of the casts they might distribute them to other UK museums, the UK lacks any other large dinosaur exhibit, most other museums with dinosaurs have a max of around 4 mounts

Better they just recast him and explain the differences as frog DNA

I really wish the London NHM had more real fossil mounts on display since it is the only place in the UK with more than ~four mounts on display

Read this as protoceratops babies and for a fraction of a second thought this was like a cuckoo situation

Are there any surviving concepts for these?

I went and saw the Nottingham exhibition, does that mean the original mount was made of real fossils? I always assumed it was a cast

What happened to it after the exhibition? Was it the same mount that went on display in London?

Eurasian sparrowhawk seen eating an invasive parakeet in London

#wildlifephotography #whalewatching

#wildlifephotography #whalewatching

Right after Tenerife was a short trip to Tarifa to try and spot killer whales in the Straight of Gibraltar, unfortunately we didn’t see any but we saw longfin pilot whales, bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins, striped dolphins and a sperm whale

#wildlifephotography #whalewatching

Lots of wildlife spotted on holiday in tenerife, from shortfin pilot whales, bottlenose dolphins, caretta sea turtles, parakeets, wall lizards and flying fish

Man I wished it was there when I visited last year!

Wait, the put in a gryposaurus? Where the chasmosaurus used to be?

CORRECTION:
The unidentified beaked whale is more likely to be a bottlenose dolphin breaching at an angle

Now I’ve seen that photo I no longer sure if it was an unidentified beaked whale, looks definitely more like a dolphin compared to the angle it was at when I took my photo (if that is the same one from the early morning of the 10th?)

Cetaceans observed:
- common dolphin
- harbour porpoise
- striped dolphin
- minke whale
- Risso’s dolphin
- unidentified beaked whale
- Cuvier’s beaked whale

Along with the cetaceans we also saw lots of birds including my first gannet sightings and some spoonbills along the spanish coast and breaching tuna in the english channel

Amazing trip with @orcaweb.bsky.social across the Bay of Biscay, over 500 cetaceans from at least 7 species were observed, I managed to photograph 6 of them minus the Cuvier’s beaked whale

#wildlifephotography #whalewatching

Wait have they still not figured out avian cloning?

The human cast almost lines up with the PC human team and the vibe feels the same way. This honestly doesn’t feel like a JP film to me

According to the dialogue the Mosasaur is the exact same one from JW that escaped. I suppose this is the true form of the adult ingen mosasaurus

I liked the Titanosaur scene, we had a reason to see the humans gawk at them for a while without it feeling like an overdone trope, but the Titanosaurs themselves do not fit in the JP aesthetic at all

- completely baffles me why they baited us with the raptors for one scene and then the rest of the film were replaced the mutadons which just looked like stock sci fi monsters

- The Spinosaurs, T-rex and Mosasaurs were great, I liked the D-rex a lot more than I was expecting to as well

- I really liked all of the cast. No one outstayed their welcome and the main trio of Dr Loomis, Zora and Duncan were fun to watch

- It pains me to say it though but this movie didn’t really spark anything in me, even Dominion despite its faults left me feeling somewhat warm and fuzzy inside, this one left me leaving the cinema with mixed feelings