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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.