Litsy

The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know | David Hone

Today I learned that birds and reptiles can isolate infections in a single part of the body instead of the spread that often happens in mammals. I want to go read about how that works now, but I guess my theory would be a different lymphatic system? Though no clue how they would avoid spread through the blood stream... If someone finds out before I do, let me know!

(Note that I studied immunology as part of my degree, am interested in *detail*.)

shanaqui Hone doesn't give a lot of detail but apparently the dinosaurs had this ability too and there's an image of a hadrosaur skeleton with a healed crushed spine! Hang on, I'll add the image to the main post if I can... 5d

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Robotswithpersonality

Dinosaurs Before Dark | Mary Pope Osborne

so-so

Odd experience for me as an adult reader. I love picture books, when you can spend a brief moment in a little story, when consuming the text arguably takes less time than admiring the illustrations.
I enjoy a lot of graphic novels, where the image vs text consumption time is about equal.
But there's something about early reader level chapter books with a smattering of illustrations - it's like the ratio is off. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I can and do enjoy image-free books of all lengths, but this, given the size of the font, even split into smaller chapters, set up for a certain reading level, for my personal reading comprehension, it just felt like a poorly-paced short story. 🤷🏼‍♂️
There's no way for me to see its full merit because I'm really not the target audience. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? I enjoy the premise of a magical treehouse that takes you to other times and places via a simple wish and the material in a stock of books, it's a lovely and simple metaphor about the transformative power of reading, complete with little factoids you can learn from reading books, this time about dinosaurs. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? It looks like there are different reader levels within the series, but this is the part where I admit I haven't had the best luck with children's chapter books, reading them as an adult, so this was kind of a Hail Mary to start with. I am glad I got a taste for the nostalgia without having to spend much more than 60 pages in the world. Apologies if I just offended someone on behalf of their childhood faves. 😬 1w

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Good news, aside from an unrealistically positive view to climbing into strange buildings in trees and the friendliness of dinosaurs to small children, I didn't see anything sketchy in this children's book from 1992, and that's kind of a rarity! 1w

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shanaqui

The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know | David Hone

Enjoying this so far. In odd synchronicity, it made me more curious about the papers behind this article (which I need to look into) which suggests we're finding evidence there has never been a mass extinction: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481371-theres-growing-evidence-the-big-fiv...

This book, of course, is pretty certain that there was!

shanaqui But also says that science changes, some of the stuff in the book will be wrong, and that that's good.

I did like learning about ancient crocodilians in a footnote -- they were bipedal and stood upright! Article with an example image: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/20/revealed-the-terrifying-3m-long-... 3w

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MatchlessMarie

How to Catch a Loveosaurus | Alice Walstead

February #BookSpin / #BookSpinBingo / #ReadYourKindle ♥️ Two Can Play was my “Someplace Cold” #FictionalTraveler pick and my “book where the setting is cold/icy” for #TBRTarot. I ended up DNFing ACOTAR for #LittensLoveRomance 🫣 But I might try it again at some point. Maybe romantasy just isn‘t my thing. #LitsyAtoZ More on Hell Followed With Us in the next post. It was also my favorite for February.

Gissy I like your reading journal😍so pretty👌 4w

MatchlessMarie @Gissy Thank you! I‘m a lefty so I try to counter my chicken scratch with stickers 🤭 4w

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RosePressedPages

Jurassic Park : [novel] | Michael Crichton

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I‘ve loved the movies since I was a kid, but recently saw a review depicting the book as much more horrific and I immediately downloaded it. It was definitely more graphic and gorier. I was surprised by some of the different characters in the novel and the difference in who made it to the end. I kept reading it before bed and then feeling uneasy the rest of the night lol.

Do you think it‘s worth trying The Lost World next?

Larkken I remember it being interesting the scenes from book 2 that made it into the original movie, so if the difs between book & movie entertained you, that could be fun... I can't say that the plot was memorable though, lol! 1mo

rwmg It's a long time since I read either of them but I think I enjoyed Conan Doyle's Lost World more. I remember crying my eyes out at the end of the B/W film.

The Lost World

1mo

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CoveredInRust

Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton

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A 5 star of course. Loved rereading this.

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CoveredInRust

Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton

I just love that Ian Malcolm is allowed to have these pages long diatribes. 🙌

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CoveredInRust

Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton

TL;DR version 🤣

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CoveredInRust

Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton

Ian Malcolm making POINTS. Applicable today points, at that...

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CoveredInRust

Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton

Time to revisit this one 🥰🥰🥰

AileenRR You‘re right! I read this in high school and it‘s time for a re-read 1mo

CoveredInRust @AileenRR It's been so great! It feels to me like one of those books that has events that work well for the book and the changes they made for the movie also worked well. Kinda like a good example of how stories can need change to work well in different mediums. 1mo

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