So, I just watched the first two episodes of ’The Dinosaurs’ on Netflix.
What a wave of nostalgia. The series has some issues, of course, but I can’t help but be swept up by the magnitude of dinosaurs’ reign on earth and what magnificent creatures they were, absolute marvels of evolution.
While the series doesn’t hit quite the same as the OG ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ for me, I do appreciate the focus on early reptiles and how it took many cataclysmic geographic events and twists of evolution to ensure that the dinosaurs eventually gained dominance over such species.
It’s also fascinating how the presence of certain aquatic species created such a divide between what occurred on land, and the kind of life that evolved in the oceans. I also loved the wilderness of Pangaea, later Gondwanaland and Laurasia, bewildering to think of how this massive landmass shifted to the continents and climates we know today.
Watching the documentary DID leave me with that same old sense of wonder I experienced as a child, receiving my first dino encyclopedia, flipping through those glossy pages and unearthing a world that makes my own existence less than a blip on the radar of life on earth.
I hope upcoming episodes, and other documentaries covering those eras, always leave me with that inexplicable excitement, that there is always so much more for the human race to uncover about out planet’s past.
