Aurora Borealis (film) Aurora Borealis (film) Aurora Borealis is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by James C.E. Burke and starring Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, and Louise Fletcher. The film was produced between November 3-December 19, 2003. Duncan (Joshua Jackson) is an unemployed youth, trying to cope with the death of his father ten years ago. The film is set in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Duncan's grandparents, Ronald (Donald Sutherland) and Ruth (Louise Fletcher) move into an apartment with a very nice view. Ron claims that he has seen the Northern Lights "aka" Aurora Borealis from the balcony. Ron is fast deteriorating with
Dimetrodon borealis the sabre-armed jaws completed the sanguinary work of destruction." American paleontologist E. C. Case reclassified "Bathygnathus" as a pelycosaur (a type of "mammal-like reptile") in 1905, noting its similarities with the genus "Dimetrodon", a sail-backed synapsid that was discovered in Texas in the 1870s. In their 1940 overview of pelycosaurs, Alfred Romer and Llewellyn Ivor Price suggested that "Bathygnathus" might be synonymous with "Dimetrodon". Dimetrodon borealis Dimetrodon borealis, formerly known as "Bathygnathus borealis," is an extinct species of pelycosaur-grade synapsid that lived about 270 million years ago (Ma) in the Early Permian. A partial maxilla or upper jaw bone from