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Re: FW: when dinos ruled
done, I still think one of the
best was the one called "Dinosaur" (I think)
produced by WHYY in Philadelphia. It wasn't loaded with animations
and
graphics so much as it featured longer, on-location (as opposed to
"in
studio") segments with a wide variety of paleontologists. This pops
up on
I believe you are talking about that series narrated by Barbara Feldon.
It consisted of four episodes, and I missed the first one on TV. Years
later, when Blockbuster sold the series on tape, I got all... except the
first episode again! It was pretty good, with segments with Dave Ostrom
talking about Deinonychus, David Norman talking about Iguanodon, Robert
Bakker on his proposed theories on almost everything from diet to
predator:prey ratios to why he believes they died out, and a whole host
of other authorities.
Interestingly, there was an animation sequence that showed a whole herd
of migrating pachyrhinosauri, and the artist had rendered them all with a
massive nose horn, which is one of the most impressive things I have ever
seen, since at that time all the artistic renditions I had seen had them
with that rather disappointing nose pad.