Jurassic World Weekend 3

JURASSIC SEA WORLD

On the third day of "Jurassic Weekend", we find that a Dinocam calibrated for the Cretaceous period has captured a shot of one of the stars of Jurassic World: a Mosasaurus. This enormous sea lizard - a marine relative of modern monitor lizards - was caught in action as it tried to chomp-on and swallow the cam. Fortunately for us, the cam survived and lives to shoot another day, as the mosasaur apparently wasn't fond of the taste and texture of the camera - and quickly abandoned it...

Jurassic World Weekend 2

JURASSIC SEA WORLD

On this second day of "Jurassic Weekend", we are fortunate to have captured a Plesiosaurus on a Dino Cam set to the early Jurassic seas of England.

Check back later for more dino cam updates!

Jurassic World Weekend

JURASSIC SEA WORLD

Today's the day! It's launch weekend for the uber long-awaited 4th iteration of the Jurassic Park film franchise: Jurassic World. A key feature of this go-around is the exploitation of resurrected extinct sea creatures in a "Sea World" inspired water theme park. 

In tandem to the theatrical roll-out of the movie, it's only fitting that we set our Dinocam back - this Jurassic World weekend - to the "real" realm of the mid Jurassic seas of central North America. Back then, almost half of the continent was submerged beneath a shallow inland sea, stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Applachians, and reaching from what is now Canada into Mexico - a rather large pond, to be sure. 

In our sights today is a giant coil-shelled ammonite. With their flexible tentacles, ammonites are, in fact, distant relatives to the squid and octopus of today; and flourished throughout the seas of the Mesozoic Era, before disappearing 65 million years ago, alongside the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs. 

Check back throughout "Jurassic Weekend" for more Dinocam updates!