tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178395616250564555.post7449438384878002560..comments2024-02-19T02:15:12.602-08:00Comments on What happens when a non-accredited paleontology fan blogs: Documentary Review: Walking With Dinosaurs-the Ballad of Big AlDavid Prushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104560902599373673noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178395616250564555.post-24104631882902807022014-05-12T19:08:25.313-07:002014-05-12T19:08:25.313-07:00Excellent point! Good catch with the parental care...Excellent point! Good catch with the parental care error; I certainly notice it now. Infant care is still hotly debated, even though evidence seems to suggest it was more common than not for dinosaurs. Like everything in paleontology, it's easy for one paleontologist to approve a detail that would enrage another. David Prushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08104560902599373673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4178395616250564555.post-49209081872370946662014-05-11T19:07:35.512-07:002014-05-11T19:07:35.512-07:00Just making sure my comment went through b/c somet...Just making sure my comment went through b/c something weird happened when I tried to publish it.<br /><br />"The next three years are skipped over, and Al is said to reach 10 meters as a subadult, something quite impossible as Al’s fossil body is “only” 8 meters."<br /><br />Just a slight correction: In the Ballad, Al is said to reach 9 meters. Likewise, the giant female is 13 meters ("4 meters longer" than Al). Your point still stands, though.<br /><br />"Those will get their own reviews in time, but I must say of the one-shot spinoffs from the main Walking With Dinosaurs series, this is by far the best."<br /><br />Next to "Time of the Titans", the Ballad is my favorite WWD episode. However, there's 1 thing that always annoyed me about the Ballad: The depicted parental behavior of Allosaurus (The young fed themselves w/adult supervision) is based on evidence of said behavior in a theropod of uncertain relations (Lourinhanosaurus) despite the facts that 1) said evidence is iffy at best (Mateus claimed that the young must've fed themselves from birth b/c they were born w/teeth; By that logic, most baby mammals must feed themselves from birth), & 2) evidence of parental feeding in Allosaurus was not only known then (See Bakker 1997), but was discussed in ""Walking with Dinosaurs": The Evidence - How Did They Know That?".<br /><br />-Hadiazraptor_044https://www.blogger.com/profile/10538231485096397412noreply@blogger.com