Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Page #3
Mr. Sternberg?
I called from the newspaper.
There's a lot of talk about
what you found out here.
- Glad you could come.
- Well, thank you.
- Caught a pretty big fish here.
- What is it, exactly?
This is a 13-foot Xiphactinus.
But there's more to it.
As I went through
digging out the fossil...
I noticed something beneath the ribs.
I found some vertebrae,
kept on going.
Turned out to be
The victim was a six-foot fish
called a Gillicus-
such a mouthful that swallowing it
killed the Xiphactinus...
a prehistoric victim of gluttony.
[Water Splashing]
Weeks pass, and the dollies
are now far from any shore-
venturing into a sea
turned magical by night.
Microscopic plankton
give off an eerie glow.
Under cover of darkness,
the Enchodus rest...
not quite sleeping.
Below, there's a mass spawning
of straight-shelled ammonites.
trained for predators.
And one is about
[Man]
There's hundreds of sharks' teeth here.
[Narrator]
After a long day hunting fossils...
two amateur collectors
unearthed a wealth of sharks' teeth.
So many have been found
around the world...
that it's clear sharks were thriving
during the age of the sea monsters.
The Cretoxyrhina
is as big and lethal...
as the Great White of our day.
It slices its victims into bite-size chunks,
using razor-sharp teeth.
[Whirring, Clicking]
[Speaking Dutch]
[Narrator]
There is evidence from a Dutch quarry...
on even the largest marine reptiles...
leaving tooth marks on their bones.
The female and her brother
are being watched.
But it's their mother
who becomes the target.
[Squealing]
Their mother is gone,
but it isn't over.
A smaller shark
She's wounded...
but she survives the initial charge.
Perhaps the shark was not as lucky.
Her injury will heal...
though she'll always carry a shark's tooth
embedded in her flipper.
The two youngsters
must now continue on their own.
If the female and her brother
are going to survive...
they'll have to find food
and their way...
in this vast inland sea.
Finally, they see something familiar-
a school of Enchodus
trailed by other dollies...
and by the flightless Hesperornis.
[Squawks]
But nearly anything in the sea-
can be a meal for a tylosaur.
[Man]
This one died with a full stomach.
Yeah, it looks like a, uh' Hesperornis.
Big as a pelican.
Maybe bigger.
[Narrator]
The stomach contents of a single tylosaur...
reveal its enormous appetite.
This looks like the bone
of a three-to-five foot long teleost fish.
Got a bone here
from a small mosasaur.
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