June 11, 1993 was the premier date of the original "Jurassic Park" movie, which means that today is it's 23'rd birthday. To celebrate, let's take a look back at this Time Magazine cover story meant to not only get us hyped for the movie, but also to bring people up to speed about dinosaurs. It's all old news to us (woah, dude, birds are a kind of dinosaur?!?) but the illustrations are quite lovely.
There's also a neat article about "Jurassic Park" where we're reminded that the special effects team was kind of terrified that their creatures wouldn't be convincing, that paleontologists were on the whole very enthusiastic about the film, and that poor Tianchisaurus (nee Jurassosaurus) might have the most ghastly species name of any animal, extinct or extant.
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Art of the Day!
Last month was Mer-May! Here's a cute Mer-Fay and her nymph buddy.
