Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Page #3

Synopsis: Brings to life some of the most bizarre, ferocious and fascinating creatures to ever inhabit the ocean. Combines animation with recreations in a prehistoric adventure. A journey to the bottom of the ancient oceans dramatizes awe-inspiring creatures.
Production: National Geographic
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IMDB:
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Year:
2007
40 min
$23,615,670
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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

an entire animal inside.

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.

The dollies keep their eyes

trained for predators.

And one is about

to change their lives.

[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...

that ancient sharks fed

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

goes after the young female.

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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