Pacific Museum of Earth (PME) colleagues Frederick Oliver Beeby Maglaque, PME Exhibition Researcher and UBC Master’s student in Art History, and Dr. Kirsten F. Hodge, PME Director and Lecturer in UBC EOAS, published an article today in The Conversation. 

In their piece, Oli and Kirsten explore how Netflix’s The Dinosaurs docuseries revisits long-standing narratives of empire and conquest in the way dinosaurs are imagined and represented. Drawing connections from the Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures unveiled in 1854 to contemporary dinosaur media such as Jurassic Park, the article discusses how these stories often frame life on Earth as a story of conquest and reflect ideas of human mastery over nature.

Read the full article here: Netflix’s ‘The Dinosaurs’ rehashes a very old story — of empire and conquest