Jurassic

In popular-culture, Velociraptors are known to the public for their role played in Jurassic World. A fun fact about the movie, however: As I mentioned earlier, the Velociraptor was covered in feathers, and not scales like in the movie, Jurassic World. Velociraptors also only stood two-feet tall, unlike in the movie where they look a lot larger than human life, whereas they are actually smaller than many young children…

Transformer’s metal to create a speaker, it is almost groan worthy due to the lack of creativity. Tucci literally has a metal that can turn into anything, but by turning it into a product, the creativity is nonexistent. Then there are cases like Jurassic World, where the film is actually aware of overbearing product placement. Creativity is added, since characters actually make fun of how many advertisements are in the park. However, critical success of a film seems to be not as relevant…

The Foley sound effects are artificial, created with props or sources that are often radically different to what appears on screen. In cinema, the sounds of monsters or futuristic technology, for instance, have been created using every from envelopes to breezeblocks and biplane motors. It’s not just for fictional TV or movies either. In a radio documentary, The Sound of Sports, Dennis Baxter describes how sounds are added to sporting events, from rowing to athletics. In horse racing, for example…

What, if anything, do the monsters of horror cinema have in common, besides the fact that they are not real? They may be human—just think of Norman Bates, Leatherface, or Hannibal Lechter—but they are not real, in the sense of experientially real. They may even be non-fictional—just think of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), a film about real-life mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas—but that still doesn't make them real (the Henry of the film is just an actor, Michael Rooker, pretending to be…

Therapsida – *Therapsida is a group of synapsids, and includes mammals and their ancestors. *They were advanced mammal like reptiles that appeared during early Jurassic and became dominant land animal during middle Permian period. *They evolved from a group of pelycosaurs called sphenacodonts. *The legs are positioned more vertically…

Star Wars: The Next Hit “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far way…” The opening lines of every Star Wars Episode can be quoted by most its viewers. This speaks to the impact that this movie franchise has had upon Americans. Even George Lucas could not have predicted the major success of his films. Forbes Magazine contributor Scott Mendelson believes that, “Star Wars hit such a chord precisely because it was an original and precisely because it was unlike anything that was currently available…

TECTONIC HISTORY The Smackover Formation of Texas is located in the East Texas Basin, in North-East Texas, and is “one of three Mesozoic basins flanking the northern rim of the Gulf Coastal Plain” (Foote et al., 1988, p.3). “Subsidence from rifting and crustal attenuation in addition to subsequent sediment loading results in a maximum of 23,000 feet of subsidence in the center of the basin” ( an idea originally published in Seni and Jackson,1984, quoted from Foote et al., 1988, p.3). The area…

The PG-13 movie definition is “Parents strongly cautioned indicating that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13”. Because PG-13 movies sometimes promote bad behavior like Swearing and most parents do not want that. Graphs show that 45%-55% of kids start watching PG-13 movies at ages 8-9 and up. So if schools were to watch PG-13 Movies without permission parents might get upset. Because they might not allow tWhy can’t we watch PG-13 movies? Why can’t we watch PG-13 movies at…

finder. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorities on fossils. When she was twelve year old, she found the skeleton of one of the first Ichthyosaurus, a giant marine reptile that lived in the early time of Jurassic period in Asia and Europe. She discovered more Ichthyosaurus fossils and also many other important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the first half of the nineteenth century. Her findings were key to the development paleontology…

creatures. Dinosaur National Monument is extraordinary in light of the fact that guests can see fossils uncovered on the bluff face of the Douglass Quarry at the recreation center guest focus. This site gives a standout amongst other previews of Jurassic dinosaurs discovered anyplace on the planet. The quarry was named after Earl Douglass, the scientist who discovered it. From 1909 through 1924, when work concentrated on exhuming historical center examples, the Douglass Quarry created more:…