The Chasmosaurus comes across a younger Daspletosaurus, before a group of the tyrannosaurids ambush it.
In late Cretaceous Canada, in what will be known as Dinosaur Provincial Park, a Daspletosaurus stalks a Chasmosaurus in a forest but loses the element of surprise and is forced to retreat. as birds".ħ5 million years ago, Late Cretaceous ( Alberta, North America)ħ5 million years ago, Late Cretaceous ( Alaska, North America)ħ5 million years ago, Late Cretaceous ( Madagascar, Africa) A montage is then shown of the feathered dinosaurs featured in the programme, with the narrator saying that "Microraptor not only hints at how flight "might have" developed, but also that dinosaurs still live amongst us today. The group brings down the parent, the narrator explaining that their possibly venomous bite allowed them to tackle animals much larger than themselves. The Sinornithosaurus, alongside two other members of its species, is then shown hunting a Jeholosaurus and its three young.
A Sinornithosaurus attacks it, and after a brief chase the Microraptor manages a lucky escape. The episode finally cuts to an early Cretaceous forest in China, where a Xianglong is being hunted by a Microraptor, which uses its feathers to pursue the gliding lizard in the air. The males use their feathers for display, a brief fight between two erupting at one point, allowing the females to choose the best suitor. The Gigantoraptor then heads to compete in a breeding ritual for mates. A Gigantoraptor suddenly attacks and eats the Saurornithoides. When it leaves the nest, an Oviraptor raids it, eating one egg before fleeing with another when the troodontid returns. The episode then cuts to a desert in late Cretaceous Mongolia, where a Saurornithoides is shown brooding a nest of eggs. It drops a second grub to the forest floor, where the other Epidexipteryx retrieves it, only for the juvenile Sinraptor to kill it. However, another, larger Epidexipteryx steals its prey, and after a brief bout of posturing, the smaller individual goes to find more food. This shows the species as being one that uses its elongated fingers in a similar way that a modern day aye-aye uses its fingers. It finds a beetle larva in the tree bark. In a late Jurassic forest in what is now China, an Epidexipteryx escapes from a juvenile Sinraptor by climbing a tree. disappeared." – John Hurt (1940 – 2017)ġ54 million years ago, Late Jurassic ( Beijing, China, Asia)Ĩ5 million years ago, Late Cretaceous ( Mongolia, Asia)ġ25 million years ago, Early Cretaceous ( Jilin, China, Asia) "And the biggest predator ever known to walk the earth. The narrator then explains that a million years later, rising sea levels destroyed the Spinosaurus's habitat, ultimately dooming the species the last scene shows the Spinosaurus lying lifeless in the desert. It then journeys into the desert, taking a rest as the injuries weaken it. After a fight over the carcass, the Spinosaurus drives off the Carcharodontosaurus, although it is left with bite marks in its sail. Catching the scent of a kill, it discovers a Carcharodontosaurus, which has brought down one of the Ouranosaurus. After killing and eating a pterosaur, it comes across a group of Ouranosaurus. The episode then cuts to the habitat of Spinosaurus, where a drought is taking place and the Spinosaurus, scared away from the remaining water by a Sarcosuchus, which unlike the dinosaur can hibernate during droughts, Spinosaurus however is forced to hunt on land. The victor then hunts and kills one of the herbivores. The episode cuts to a pair of young male Carcharodontosaurus, which are fighting to gain rights to hunt a herd of Ouranosaurus. A Rugops watching nearby scavenges its leftovers.
Instead, it hunts Onchopristis (a giant sawfish), which are migrating into freshwater rivers to breed. In a swamp in North Africa a herd of Ouranosaurus are spooked by a Spinosaurus, which ignores them. ĩ5 million years ago, Late Cretaceous ( Egypt, North Africa)
The companion book to Planet Dinosaur was released on 8 September 2011, and the DVD and Blu-ray were released on 24 October 2011. Much of the series' plot is based on scientific discoveries made since Walking with Dinosaurs. There are more than 50 different prehistoric species featured, and they and their environments were created entirely as computer-generated images, for around a third of the production cost that was needed a decade earlier for Walking with Dinosaurs.
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It is the first major dinosaur-related series for BBC One since Walking with Dinosaurs. It first aired in the United Kingdom in 2011, with VFX studio Jellyfish Pictures as its producer. Planet Dinosaur, is a six-part documentary television series created by Nigel Paterson and Phil Dobree, produced by the BBC, and narrated by John Hurt.