I'm sorry, Ice Age WHAT?
Okay I don't have a TV, so I don't keep up on movie previews, etc... all too well. So imagine my chagrin today when I got an e-mail from the Michigan Theatre about Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
I'm sorry, what? Did we NOT just see a bunch of paleontologists ranting about the creation museum? Now, instead, we're just going to give them completely mixed up geology?
FACT: Dinosaurs were around before mammals evolved, they did not dawn after mammals did.
FACT: There were mammals around during the time of the dinos, but primarily small ones (we think).
FACT: After the dinosaurs went extinct about 60 million years ago, mammals expanded to fill in the niches that were left behind. They got larger and more diverse.
FACT: The large mammals highlighted in the Ice Age movies are fairly recent species, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago, after the end of the most recent ice age.
FACT: HUMANS, as seen in the first Ice Age movie, NEVER CO-EXISTED WITH DINOSAURS.
FACT: I LOVED the first Ice Age movie because it was SO geologically accurate. I maintain that they very clearly showed the melting of the glaciers in northwestern North America, culminating in the animals coming out of the ice free corridor into Montana, where they eventually discovered the hot springs that are in Yellowstone National Park today. It was FANTASTIC. They put a lot of effort into getting the geological history right.
From what I understand, the dinosaurs in the new movie live in an underground world that the mammals discover - we're getting back to the Journey to the Center of the Earth/Land of the Lost theme that is so popular this year. That mollifies me a bit, but because the first movie was so well done (in my opinion), and made real geological facts interesting, I am sad to see them going this direction.
I'm sorry, what? Did we NOT just see a bunch of paleontologists ranting about the creation museum? Now, instead, we're just going to give them completely mixed up geology?
FACT: Dinosaurs were around before mammals evolved, they did not dawn after mammals did.
FACT: There were mammals around during the time of the dinos, but primarily small ones (we think).
FACT: After the dinosaurs went extinct about 60 million years ago, mammals expanded to fill in the niches that were left behind. They got larger and more diverse.
FACT: The large mammals highlighted in the Ice Age movies are fairly recent species, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago, after the end of the most recent ice age.
FACT: HUMANS, as seen in the first Ice Age movie, NEVER CO-EXISTED WITH DINOSAURS.
FACT: I LOVED the first Ice Age movie because it was SO geologically accurate. I maintain that they very clearly showed the melting of the glaciers in northwestern North America, culminating in the animals coming out of the ice free corridor into Montana, where they eventually discovered the hot springs that are in Yellowstone National Park today. It was FANTASTIC. They put a lot of effort into getting the geological history right.
From what I understand, the dinosaurs in the new movie live in an underground world that the mammals discover - we're getting back to the Journey to the Center of the Earth/Land of the Lost theme that is so popular this year. That mollifies me a bit, but because the first movie was so well done (in my opinion), and made real geological facts interesting, I am sad to see them going this direction.