Welcome to Jurassic Park

Today, they released the trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth. 

Dinosaurs have always been one of my favorite subjects.  I used to dream about being a paleontologist. Even though my life went a different route, Jurassic Park has remained one of my favorite movies and the oldest franchise I have ever been a fan of. It all started when I was 8 and the first movie came out; 8 year old me read the whole novel from start to finish.  

The below drawing was from high school.  I was bored and it started as just a doodle of the three logos with some crayons. I cut the logo out and glued it to another page and I expanded it into a pen and colored pencil drawing of dinosaurs.  

Jurassic Park

I just happened to drive my my grandmothers house today, just as she and my nephew were walking outside to play in the unusually warm spring-like weather. So I stopped and I decided to join them! I will tell you, there is nothing like a 5 year old telling you facts about dinosaurs, and about the way his live their lives! My nephew never ceases to amaze me, so I played along teaching him more about the Majestic Extinct Behemoths that linger collectively in both our imaginations. This Diorama is one that we came up with; the other Dinosaurs are talking amongst themselves as the bigger one sleeps. Clearly the mind of a child is one to take amazement to, because I would have come up with something different!!! Dinner Anyone?

Pangea

This is my interpretation of a river scene on the great continent of Pangea during the Triassic Period.

The land was much different then, nothing like we know it today, a Cycad sits along the bank near a fallen Ginkgo tree, the seed ferns around it continue to grow nourished by the river that lazily flows into the Tethys sea. A lone male Cynognathus walks along the river bank, looking for small morsels that the current may wash ashore... or perhaps the scent of a female. A Brightly colored Ornithodira surveys the dead Ginkgo for insect life, unaware of the wonders the future and evolution holds instore for its decendants. In the distance the Foothills to the extensive Central Pangean Mountains(Proto-Appalachians Mountains) loom diviving the continent into North and South.