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When Dinosaurs Ruled

Season 1 1999
TV-G

  • 1999-08-23T04:00:00Z on Science
  • 50m
  • 6h 40m (8 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
When Dinosaurs Ruled uses enhanced 3-D animation to present lithe, agile dinosaurs that look more like a nature program than science fiction. This Learning Channel series incorporates all the latest research into warm-bloodedness, skin coloration, kinetics, and social behaviors, not to mention newly discovered dinosaurs. The information is presented with helpful charts, graphs, and visuals and in language that is easy to understand but not at all dumbed down. The soundtrack, excellent pacing, cinematography, and animation are bonuses. The five-part series devotes an episode apiece to dinosaurs found in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, and Australia/Antarctica. The exclusion of Asia is one of the series' few shortcomings. The DVD's special features include direct scene access where you can jump between thematic sections, a trivia quiz to see how well you remember the information presented, and spotlighted dinosaurs where you can jump between the specific dinosaurs presented in each episode. Although the visuals in the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs are more impressive, these are still quite spectacular. In addition, there is so much new and different material presented here that any dinosaur-enthusiast's collection should include both. Expert or novice, kid or grownup, these DVDs will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about what the earth was like When Dinosaurs Ruled.

8 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-08-23T04:00:00Z

1x01 The Land Time Forgot

Series Premiere

1x01 The Land Time Forgot

  • 1999-08-23T04:00:00Z50m

This programme takes us beyond the lush forests, roaring lions and the blazing sun of Africa to reveal the World's most remote and hard to reach dinosaur fossils known to exist. We follow paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team from the southern tip of Africa to the northern reaches of Morocco as we meet some of the most diverse dinosaurs to have roamed our World.

1999-08-24T04:00:00Z

1x02 Birth of the Giants

1x02 Birth of the Giants

  • 1999-08-24T04:00:00Z50m

"When Dinosaurs Ruled" takes viewers on a global discovery to the five "lost worlds" of Dinosaurs. We travel to excavation digs all over the planet in search of clues to the great beasts that once roamed the earth, seas and skies of long ago.

"When Dinosaurs Ruled North America" joins leading paleontologists Bob Bakker and Jim Kirkland as they travel back in time to trace the rise and fall of the dinosaurs in America. From the western U.S. to Canada and Alaska, these scientists are finding fossils that paint the story of which dinosaurs roamed here and what their adversaries were. From the heavily-armoured Stegosaurus to the powerful flesh eaters, this is the story of the dinosaurs of North America.

1999-08-26T04:00:00Z

1x03 The Real Jurassic Park

1x03 The Real Jurassic Park

  • 1999-08-26T04:00:00Z50m

"When Dinosaurs Ruled" takes viewers on a global discovery to the five "lost worlds" of Dinosaurs. We travel to excavation digs all over the planet in search of clues to the great beasts that once roamed the earth, seas and skies of long ago.

1999-08-23T04:00:00Z

1x04 Ground Zero

1x04 Ground Zero

  • 1999-08-23T04:00:00Z50m

For a century, we've known the T-Rex as the King of Dinosaurs ... the largest meat-eater to ever walk the Earth. But two new dinosaur discoveries may change that forever. Beyond T-Rex goes from Morocco to Patagonia to unearth Giganotosaurus and Carcharadontosaurus, two newly found meat-eating giants that threaten to dethrone the tyrant lizard king. Their fossils raise many questions about the lifestyle, behaviour and evolution of the giant killer dinosaurs.

We visit the excavation sites and re-create their world using state-of-the-art animation. By comparing the subtle differences in anatomy of these fearsome creatures, we contemplate which giant really was the King of Dinosaurs.

1999-08-24T04:00:00Z

1x05 At the Ends of the Earth

1x05 At the Ends of the Earth

  • 1999-08-24T04:00:00Z50m

In the searing heat of Australia and frozen wastes of Antarctica, the dinosaurs that ruled these lands were the toughest creatures that ever lived. Follow a path of over 3000 footprints left in soft clay, proof that dinosaurs lived in the deadly Outback.

1999-08-25T04:00:00Z

1x06 Beyond T-Rex

1x06 Beyond T-Rex

  • 1999-08-25T04:00:00Z50m

For a century, we've known the T-Rex as the King of Dinosaurs ... the largest meat-eater to ever walk the Earth. But two new dinosaur discoveries may change that forever. Beyond T-Rex goes from Morocco to Patagonia to unearth Giganotosaurus and Carcharadontosaurus, two newly found meat-eating giants that threaten to dethrone the tyrant lizard king. Their fossils raise many questions about the lifestyle, behaviour and evolution of the giant killer dinosaurs.

We visit the excavation sites and re-create their world using state-of-the-art animation. By comparing the subtle differences in anatomy of these fearsome creatures, we contemplate which giant really was the King of Dinosaurs.

1999-08-26T04:00:00Z

1x07 Tyrannosaurus Rex

1x07 Tyrannosaurus Rex

  • 1999-08-26T04:00:00Z50m

"When Dinosaurs Ruled" takes viewers on a global discovery to the five "lost worlds" of Dinosaurs. We travel to excavation digs all over the planet in search of clues to the great beasts that once roamed the earth, seas and skies of long ago.

1x08 Asia, the Land of the Dragon

  • 1999-08-25T04:00:00Z50m

"When Dinosaurs Ruled" takes viewers on a global discovery to the five "lost worlds" of Dinosaurs. We travel to excavation digs all over the planet in search of clues to the great beasts that once roamed the earth, seas and skies of long ago.

"When Dinosaurs Ruled South America" searches the rocky slopes of the Andes Mountains with paleontologist Martin Vince as he discovers evidence of the world's smallest dinosaurs. Learn about the geology of South America that, in turn, allowed for these small creatures to eventually evolve into the world's largest dinosaurs.

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