September 25, 2001
How do they do that?
I have been watching a bootleg version of the BBC series "Walking with Dinosaurs." It's a remarkable production. The creators of the series have gone all out to recreate the Triassic and Jurassic periods and their corresponding dinosaurs as realistically as possible. I am awed by it all. But...
...at the same time, I am left to wonder how on Gaea's Green Earth anyone can know that the Diplodocus used their long, flexible, whip-like tails as a method of communication with other Diplodocuses. And how could they know that the Allosaurus had those exact coloured markings on its face? I mean, it's not like we have cave drawings from this time. And it's not like someone brought their Sony Digicam with them on their family outing and just happened to run into a Brachiosaurus.
Still it makes for fascinating, imaginative musings. And I love musings of any kind.
