
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
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- 2012
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JOHN HURT:
We are livingthrough a dinosaur revolution.
We have pushed the boundaries of
our knowledge further than ever before.
(ROARS)
We have a completely new understanding
of the greatest killers
ever to walk the Earth.
(GROWLING)
One killer, first discovered in Egypt,
has become the icon
of these new predators.
A giant dinosaur, with two-metre-long
spines rising over its back.
It was unlike anything seen before.
It was only in 2005,
when a complete upper jaw was found,
that we could accurately reconstruct
this bizarre creature.
With a skull almost two metres long,
this dinosaur was a colossal 17 metres
from nose to tail.
Four metres longer than T-Rex.
The reign of the dinosaurs began
but this killer didn't appear until
a time known as the mid-Cretaceous.
its home in North Africa
was a desert surrounding
a vast system of rivers and swamps.
The swamps are refuges
for many large dinosaurs,
like the duck-billed Ouranosaurus.
(SQUAWKS)
(CALLING)
They are also the hunting grounds
for a killer.
(CALLING)
(GROWLING)
Spinosaurus,
the biggest killer
ever to walk the earth.
An 1 1-tonne colossus.
However, for the time being,
these Ouranosaurs
are off this killer's menu.
Spinosaurus is part of a relatively
newly discovered family of dinosaurs.
They've been found in South America
with Irritator,
in Europe, there's Baryonyx,
and Asia, Siamosaurus.
But the last and biggest of all
came from North Africa:
Spinosaurus itself.
And studies of their bones and teeth
revealed something amazing.
Spinosaurus is a predator,
but one that hunts in water.
Spinosaurus is unique.
With long, narrow jaws and nostrils
set high on its head,
its teeth were straight and conical,
and it had a curious pattern
of holes in its snout,
which give us a clue to how it hunted.
These are Onchopristis,
eight-metre-long giant sawfish.
In 2008, a Spinosaurus skull
It revealed that the holes
and sinuses in the snout
looked just like those of crocodiles.
pressure sensors.
Sensors that, like a crocodile,
can detect the movement of prey.
It can strike
without even seeing its victim.
Anywhere else, this eight-metre Rugops
might be the top carnivore.
But here, it is dwarfed by Spinosaurus,
a predator that adapted to exploit
an environment so successfully
it evolved into a 17-metre giant.
Spinosaurus is the biggest
dinosaur predator ever discovered,
but it wasn't the first giant killer.
The first giant killer dinosaurs
appeared much earlier.
They lived in the Jurassic period,
One of the most iconic is Allosaurus,
from the Morrison Formation
in North America.
Yet it's only recently that
we have been able to work out
(WIND HOWLING)
(SNUFFLING)
Allosaurus is the most common killer
in these lands.
Nine metres long, with a battery
of saw blade-like teeth,
Allosaurus is a formidable hunter.
A lone Camptosaurus
should be an easy kill.
Allosaurus teeth were serrated
front and back,
perfectly evolved
However, recent research has indicated
that Allosaurus's bite was
surprisingly weak.
Calculations suggested its bite
was less powerful than a lion's.
So just how did thisJurassic monster
hunt and kill?
(SQUEAKS NERVOUSLY)
Camptosaurus relies on its keen senses
to avoid predators.
Allosaurus, on the other hand,
is a fast and powerful ambush hunter.
(ROARING)
(GROANING)
(MOANING WEAKLY)
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