Watching Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs piqued my interest in, well, dinosaurs. I used to have a fascination with them when I was much younger, and remember my favourite dinosaurs being the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus and Pterodactyl. These days, I like the Archaeopteryx, although I’m not sure whether that counts as a dinosaur or as more of an early bird. Either way, it is the best looking, and has the coolest name, of all life that existed at the time. Over the past few days I’ve watched Walking with Dinosaurs, which I know I’ve seen at least some of in my younger years, as well as in high school science.
I find it so unfathomable that we can know so much about creatures that existed one hundred million years ago. I should actually research to find out how scientists know such things about them. For example, the documentary made me wonder how we can actually know that male Diplodocus stand on their back legs to impress female Diplodocus.
Overall, I found Walking with Dinosaurs extremely interesting, although six episodes was definitely not long enough. It only seemed to scratch the surface of dinosaurs, in general. While it did have particular focus on particular dinosaurs (such as the Diplodocus and Tyrannosaurus), it only mentioned other interesting dinosaurs in passing.
