Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World
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It was in one of the galleries
of St Peter's Mount,
at about 500 paces
from the main entry
and at 90 feet below the surface,
that the quarrymen exposed
part of the skull
of a large animal
embedded in the stone.
They suspended their work to tell
of their discovery to Dr Hoffmann,
who had for some years been
collecting fossils from the quarries.
Dr Hoffman, observing
the specimen to be the most important
that had yet been discovered,
took every precaution
to preserve it in one piece.
After having succeeded in removing
surrounding it,
and reducing the mass
to a proper condition,
it was transported
to his home in triumph.
25 years later,
after the occupation of Maastricht
by the French Revolutionary Army...
(SPEAKlNG lN FRENCH)
You are here at last.
Please, gentlemen, take it.
one cold winter night
at the National Museum
(SPEAKlNG lN FRENCH)
Be careful, it's priceless.
This strange thing
they called at the time
"the unknown animal of Maastricht"
started to raise interest
among the scientific community.
(SPEAKlNG lN FRENCH)
It's here!
Let's go, let's go!
Little bit more.
Put it on the table.
Be careful!
Gentlemen, open this chest.
Yes let's open it.
Be very, very careful!
Gentlemen, all together now.
(SPLlNTERlNG WOOD)
What they discovered that night
looked unlike
Some thought it was a crocodile.
Others believed it to be a whale.
Neither the shape of its teeth
nor the size of the jaws
helped them to determine
its true identity.
It's too big for a crocodile.
A whale would be more appropriate.
Back then, that is 40 years before
the discovery of the first dinosaur,
nobody had ever thought that
thousands of species could have lived
and disappeared in a distant past.
(RAISED VOlCES)
But everything was about to change.
SEA REX:
JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD
(WOMAN) I'm sure
My apologies for intruding
upon your thoughts, mademoiselle,
but, strictly speaking,
only reptiles that walked on dry land
are called "dinosaurs".
If they lived under the water,
they are called marine reptiles.
And they all disappeared
a very, very long time ago.
- What happened?
- You'll see, Julie.
(PREHlSTORIC BIRD CALL)
reptiles ruled the world.
On land.
In the air.
And reptiles were kings
in all the seas as well.
But then came a great cataclysm
from outer space.
An asteroid 1 2 miles in diameter
struck the Earth.
This asteroid's massive impact
unleashed the power
of more than 1 00 atomic bombs.
The sky went dark, and the Earth's
climate changed drastically.
70 per cent of all life
on the planet perished.
And, with the end of the dinosaurs,
it was also the end of the reign
of the reptile in the sea world.
And... when did you say that happened?
So... then humans came
right after that?
Humans will come... a little later.
How much later?
65 million years.
You're kidding.
Modern humans, like you and I, only
appeared barely 200,000 years ago.
In comparison to the age of
the Earth, that's a blink of the eye.
200,000 years?
An instant, in geological time.
Somewhat difficult to comprehend,
is it not?
(SURPRISED LAUGH)
Comparing thousands and millions
and even billions of years.
Don't you agree?
Um...
Then follow me, Julie.
And when you want to stop time,
say "stop".
- Stop?
- All right, then. Forward to the past!
Now, let's start slowly,
from the beginning.
Earth forms
four and a half billion years ago.
Then life appears but remains
microscopic for three billion years.
In this time spiral,
only the last turn interests us
that leads to our time.
Let's consider this
as a 1 2-hour clock.
540 million years ago, at 2 o'clock,
the Primary Era begins.
Life grows and evolves
in every environment.
At 7.30 the Secondary Era,
or the Mesozoic, begins.
It is the age of reptiles.
Including the famous dinosaurs?
Yes, as well as
flying and marine reptiles.
The next and last era, the Cenozoic,
is the age of mammals.
On this clock, Homo sapiens,
our miniscule species,
appears just eight seconds before 1 2.
The Mesozoic takes place between
the two major ecological crises
that led to the extinction
of many species on Earth.
The largest at 7.30,
and the last, right there, at 1 0.50.
That one caused the extinction of the
dinosaurs and large marine reptiles.
(JULIE) But how did it start?
Well, first,
you'll need a microscope.
Life on Earth starts in the water,
as bacteria,
Slowly, this micro-life evolves.
life becomes visible to the naked
eye, soft-bodied organisms.
The following 400 million years
bring with them an explosion of life.
New morphological forms appear,
reaching considerable sizes.
And, finally,
amphibians follow fish with feet
the first reptiles appear on land.
And in the sky, the wingspan of
some insects reaches over three feet.
By the end of the Paleozoic, the land
and the seas are bursting with life.
It is the golden age
for biodiversity.
But this period ends
with gigantic cataclysms,
which exterminate
up to 95% of the species,
the largest extinction of all time.
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