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ANTEDILUVIAN: Classic Paleoart in Movement

The XIX century supposed a proggessive yet traumatic transition from the Old Regime to Modernity. Social movements, Technology, Literature, Art and Science were all at once changing how Humans perceive the world they lived in for ever.

The very song that leads this motion picture was itself a game changer for music composition, just as the scientific discoveries that were happening at the time challenged society's world viewing. It was the begining of Paleontology .

William Buckland notoriously tried to make sense of the Biblical dogma to the new scientific revelations. He theorized that the Antediluvian creatures that Mary Anning and Gideon Mantell were unearthing were probably punnished by God in a series of catastrophes, due to their apparent grotesque and violent nature, the Deluge being the ultimate one.

The first dinosaur was formally described in 1824, exactly two centuries ago. Since then our perception of Megalosaurus has quite changed, and that's a reminder of how science progresses. This animated short is a commemorative homage to the pioneers who dared to stand for the truth they started to discover, considered 'outcasts' at the time; and the artists who for the first time imagined an entire different past of our planet.

FEATURED TAXA: Hylerpeton, Pterodactylus, Belemnite, Ammonites, Osteopygis, Lystrosaurus, Iguanodon, Laberynthodon, Hylaeosaurus, Megalosaurus, Teleosaurus, Dimorphodon, Simosaurus, Dryptosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Nothosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Mosasaurus (dead)

*note: Some names are now outdated or assigned to other taxa, and some depictions are now hardly recognizable