Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks and family is annoying,
to put it lightly. In addition, there is more new info about our main man
Spinosaurus – this dino really was the first truly aquatic dinosaur, (one that
is known to human science, anyhow): not even a wading bird, more like a
sail-backed crocodile instead.
Pause. Is there anything else than can be said about this
prehistoric reptile? By now, Spinosaurus is about as popular as T-Rex is; the
two reptiles are often compared and contrasted, and the JP3 film opened a can
of worms, at least for a while, when Spinosaurus had killed T-Rex in a dino
face-off. The JP fanbase has never been the same again, and the first JW film
tried to address this issue – sort of – by having Rexy smash through a
Spinosaurus skeleton and then the entire T-Rex vs. I-Rex vs. velociraptor pack
fight, but that wasn’t the same, and not just because the I-Rex was a glorified
carnosaur instead. (Think Carcharodontosaurus from ‘Planet Dinosaur’ as an
example). Spinosaurus was a very different theropod dinosaur from
Carcharodontosaurus and the other carnosaurs, that was quite obvious from the
start, so it and the I-Rex do not have much in common either. What next?
The JP franchise has become more inconsistent with its’ reboot,
and the second JW movie hadn’t had too much in common with the first; it was
more of a reboot instead, so there’s that, and no Spinosaurus. It had a
Spinosaurus cousin in one of the scenes, a Baryonyx or a Suchomimus, but it was
a minor, episodic character, and so it did not play any important role at all,
especially in the second half of the film, when the Indoraptor was introduced. I
will say it again: the second JW movie was made out of scripts for two films –
one about the end of the Dinosaur Island, (it culminated with the Brachiosaurus
scene), and the second one about the Evil E’s dino mansion and the Indoraptor,
which was too anthropomorphic for my tastes. Ah well, the third JW film is
being delayed, as are the rest of the films, we will just have to wait and see
what will come of it, so for now, I suppose, we need to return to the real
life, and-?
And nothing. Apparently, Trudeau’s mother was hospitalized
not because of COVID-19, but because of an apartment fire. That is fair,
especially since comrade Kim’s medical troubles have started not because of
COVID-19 either, so Ms. Trudeau Sr. may not be out of the woods yet. What next?
…I honestly wanted to talk about antelopes this time, but
speaking of being out of the woods? It is very hard to talk about them – there
are 91 species of mammals named ‘antelopes’, which live in Africa and Asia; if
they live somewhere else, like the pronghorn in North America or the chamois in
Europe, then they aren’t ‘true antelopes’ at all, but are their relatives. That
said, all of the bovid ruminants that are not cattle, (like the yaks and the
zebu that we have discussed earlier), or sheep and goats, (think mountain goats
and bighorn sheep, for example), are antelopes instead.
The antelopes are a mixed bunch on their own. There are
dwarf species, such as the royal antelope and the duikers. There are gazelles,
such as the blackbuck and the springbok. (The impala belongs to its’ own genus
and is somewhat unique, even by antelope standards). There are really big
species, like the nyalas and the elands, which are animals that are big and strong
enough to stand-up to the lion. There are the wildebeests, and the bontebooks,
and the Asian species, such as the nilgai and the four-horned antelopes, and
there are plenty of unique-looking species too, such as the gerenuk and the
saiga. In short, the antelope animal group is varied and confusing, and not
even the Wikipedia, who likes to poke around this sort of confusing info, wants
to touch them – but then again, true nature is varied, confusing, and
unpredictable: just look at how Spinosaurus has turned out to be, or at the coronavirus-19,
as examples!
…Well, this is it for now – see you all soon!
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