You'll be on the edge of your seat when the creators of the
groundbreaking Walking With... series send zoologist Nigel Marvin
back in time to track down the owner of the Giant Claw. But as
soon as his mission is accomplished, it's on to prehistoric South
America, in Land of Giants, where Nigel witnesses the battle
between history's largest predator and its even more gigantic
prey. Finally, in Chased by Sea Monsters, our intrepid explorer
dives into the world's most dangerous depths. In seven different
seas in seven different eras, Nigel meets y sea scorpions,
terrifying giant squid, massive armored fish, and the vicious
sixty-foot Mosasaur!
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What do you get when you cross the Crocodile Hunter (
/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1048182/%24%7B0%7D ) with the Jurassic
Park trilogy ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005QCYC/%24%7B0%7D )? You get
Chased by Dinosaurs, an awesomely entertaining BBC follow-up to
the phenomenally successful Walking with Dinosaurs (
/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000069HW4/%24%7B0%7D ) programs. Hosted by
zoologist-adventurer Nigel Marven, this compilation of playfully
exciting 30-minute programs is a time traveler's dream come true,
presenting a feast of impressive prehistoric scenery as if it
were readily accessible to any present-day camera crew. It's
digital fakery at its finest, and Marven's infectious enthusiasm
combines up-to-date research with wide-eyed intensity as he
introduces us to a wide-ranging menagerie of long-extinct
species, thriving in their native habitats and raging from 75 to
450 million years B.C. "Land of Giants" leaps back to the early
Cretaceous period (100 million B.C.) to what is now Argentina,
where Marven and his intrepid crew find Argentinosaurus, at over
100 feet long the largest dinosaur ever. Other marvels abound,
including an Ultralight flight among a flock of Pteranodons, with
wingspans up to 40 feet! "The Giant Claw" is a search for
Therizinosaurus, an amazing ivore (Mongolia, 75 million B.C.)
with enormous 28-inch claws on 10-foot arms. The three-part "Sea
Monsters" spans seven epochs to survey some of the most bizarre
and terrifying creatures that ever swam the oceans, including sea
scorpions, a multi-tentacled Giant Orthocone, and Megalodon, the
ancient relative to Great White Sharks. And that's just a
sampling: Many other amazing creatures are included among
Marven's close encounters.
With each successive effort, the digital wizards at Framestore
CFC (Europe's largest computer-animation company) rise to new
heights of photorealism, interactive lighting effects, and
biological authenticity. And while Marven's a fair educator and a
robust adventurer, more science-minded viewers will appreciate
the 50-minute bonus program "The Science of Giants," centering on
the behavior of massive dinosaurs and the efforts of renowneds
paleontologist Philip Currie to prove that "megacarnivores"--once
thought to roam alone--actually hunted in packs. This is really
amazing stuff, and the helpful "Fact Files" provide detailed
profiles of every dinosaur and sea creature featured in these
memorable programs. --Jeff Shannon