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Fuzzy babies. Stay-at-home dads. Flamboyant feathers. Exactly what you think when you hear the words Tyrannosaurus rex, right? If not, then think again. For hundreds of years, we thought dinosaurs ruled the planet as scaly, reptilian beasts that terrorized early earth. But new scientific advances are proving us wrong and painting an entirely new picture of not only the T. rex, but the entire dinosaur world. With the discovery of feathered dinosaurs...
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Reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton for a museum is a balance of art and science - enough science to keep the experts happy, enough artistic license to excite the visitors. But as it turns out, diplomacy is part of the balance as well. In this program, bioarchaeologist Alice Roberts goes to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to follow the creation of its 2011 dinosaur exhibit, from the raw bones to the final colossal models.
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Professor Richard Fortey travels to northeastern China to see a fossil site known as the "Dinosaur Pompeii," a place that has yielded feathered dinosaur remains and rewritten the story of bird origins. Among the finds he investigates are the feathered cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, a feathered dinosaur with strong parallels to living pandas, and some of the most remarkable flying animals that have ever lived.
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The hunt for life within the long-dead bones of dinosaurs may sound like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy-but one woman has found traces of life within the fossilized bones of a T. rex. Dr. Mary Schweitzer has seen the remains of red blood cells and touched the soft tissue of an animal that died 68 million years ago. She believes she may have found signs of DNA. Her work is revolutionizing our understanding of these iconic beasts.
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Using the fragmentary fossil record and other scientific data, paleontologists have succeeded quite brilliantly in reconstructing the dinosaurs' long-ago world, providing insights into their appearance, behavior, diet, environment, and ultimate fate-all of which have significant implications for the ongoing evolution of humankind. Sifting through the Horizon archive, this program examines the extraordinary finds and chance discoveries, technological...
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A sensational discovery is made in a German quarry: petrified tracks created by troodontidae, a beast of great interest to scientists but about which little is known. Paleontologists around the world are excited by the find, but how much data can they glean from a footprint? This program follows a research team as it reconstructs the lives of the feathered dino-birds, piecing together clues from Chinese fossils, computerized motion studies, and from...