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Synopsis: Adapted from the multi-award winning BBC1 series, Planet Dinosaur Ultimate Killers recreates the lost world of the dinosaurs in a groundbreaking stereoscopic production.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Nigel Paterson
Actors: John Hurt
 
IMDB:
7.3
Year:
2012
50 min
245 Views


With this

and its projecting front teeth,

Epidexipteryx has the perfect tools

to hunt for insects.

(INSECT BUZZING)

Prey like this, which is

difficult to catch, is quite a prize.

A prize that can attract

unwanted attention.

Here it's another,

larger, Epidexipteryx.

(SQUAWKING)

(BOTH SQUAWKING)

There is more to this extraordinary

creature than first meets the eye.

The fossil has also revealed

that it was covered

in short, simple feathers.

Feathers that were likely

to have evolved for just one reason:

to keep it warm.

But there is one last striking feature:

four long feathers on its tail.

These feathers aren't like those

of modern birds.

These are long and ribbon-like,

almost certainly only for show.

They're the earliest record

of ornamental feathers.

In fact, the very name "Epidexipteryx"

means "display feather".

(SQUAWKING)

And they're among the most bird-like

of any dinosaur.

Only in the trees can you be safe

from large predators like Sinraptor.

Moving into the trees opened up

an entirely new world for dinosaurs.

And it wasn't long

before killers followed.

The most dramatic, found in 2000,

lived in northeast China

around 120 million years ago,

at the beginning of

the Cretaceous period.

A dinosaur that took tree-living

to a whole new level.

This is Xianglong.

With prey like this,

predators were sure to follow.

Microraptor.

Microraptor is small, and well adapted

to chasing prey in the canopy.

Xianglong, however, has a trick.

This is a flying lizard.

And the exquisite fossils of Microraptor

revealed a surprise.

The feathers of this dinosaur

aren't for keeping warm, or for show.

Their structure is plainly visible

from the fossils.

They are very long, veined

and, most importantly,

their shape creates

a perfect aerodynamic surface.

And they aren't confined

to its forearms.

Its legs, too, had long feathers.

These feathers are designed

for one thing only:

flight.

Microraptor is a four-winged dinosaur

that took to the skies.

But Microraptor isn't the only

flying monster here.

Sinornithosaurus, more than capable

of stealing prey.

But it has a bigger prize in mind.

(GROANS)

And Sinornithosaurus

has a deadly secret.

In 2009, a study of Sinornithosaurus

found distinctive grooves

along the length of its teeth.

They resemble those of

the venomous Gila monster,

the grooves of its teeth used

to deliver venom into its victim.

The team even identified

what they thought

was the location

of the venom sack in the fossil.

It appeared Sinornithosaurus

could kill with poison.

Having longer flight feathers

on both its arms and legs,

Microraptor is by far the better glider.

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Tom Brass

Tom Brass is an academic who has written widely on peasant studies. For many years he was at the University of Cambridge as an affiliated lecturer in their Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and at Queens' College, Cambridge as their Director of Studies of the Social and Political Sciences. For many years he was an, and then the, editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Murray reports Brass as being "dismissive of the cultural turn in peasant studies" and the rise of post-modern perspectives and his notion that this has been a conservative process and that it has lent support to neoliberalism. more…

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