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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


But with no ability to gain height,

the only way is down.

Microraptor's long feathers mean

it can barely walk, much less run.

Sinornithosaurus has no such problem.

On the forest floor,

the tables are turned.

Microraptor has a fortunate escape.

Killer dinosaurs dominated

the land, the trees,

and had even taken to the air.

But by the middle of the Cretaceous

period, things were changing.

A new breed of killers was emerging.

These were the famed Tyrannosaurs.

Formidable hunter-killers that

swept aside almost all other predators.

Carnivorous dinosaurs that remained

were forced to adapt,

sometimes going to extreme lengths.

One such group was

the bizarre Therizinosaurs.

In 2009, the most complete skeleton

found so far was described.

It lived in New Mexico

92 million years ago.

(GROWLING)

These swamps are home to Zunityrannus,

a mid-sized Tyrannosaur.

And they're also home

to this weird creature,

Nothronychus.

It's actually a close relative

of the Tyrannosaur,

but with one major difference.

Nothronychus has given up eating meat.

(GROWLING)

(ROARING)

Therizinosaurs had been

a mystery for decades,

known only from tantalising fragments.

That all changed with

the discovery of Nothronychus.

It gave us our clearest look

at this strange group of dinosaurs.

It walked upright on short, stocky legs,

it had wide hips and a long neck.

Its teeth showed that

these weren't the teeth of a killer.

Far from its ferocious

Tyrannosaur cousins,

this pot-bellied dinosaur

had evolved into a strict vegetarian.

But armed with viciously long claws

on its forearms,

it was by no means defenceless.

(GROWLING)

By becoming a plant eater,

Nothronychus has easy access to food.

(GROWLS)

Nothronychus thrives here

because it doesn't compete

with the Tyrannosaurs.

But just because

you're not competing for food

doesn't mean you're not seen as food.

(GROWLING)

Over the next few million years,

Tyrannosaurs evolved,

getting bigger and more deadly.

They developed

into the ultimate predators

and dominated virtually

all of Asia and North America.

The most famous of these

might be T-Rex,

but it was just the last

in a long line of giant killers.

75 million years ago,

North America was home

to the original giant Tyrannosaur,

Daspletosaurus.

Its effectiveness as a killer

is clear from its anatomy.

It's massive, with a huge, strong skull

and a powerful, muscular neck.

Forward-facing eyes make

tracking moving prey easy.

They've famously short arms,

but with these giant Tyrannosaurs,

it's all about the bite.

Daspletosaurus,

with a bite force unmatched

by any other dinosaur in the region.

This is a killer in a

completely different league.

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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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