BBC Earth - Walking with Dinosaurs Specials Series 1 (2000) Part 1 The Ballad of Big Al
Walking With Dinosaurs Specials Series 1 The programme contains two separate half-hour segments originally transmitted as Walking With Dinosaurs “specials” The first is a biopic of Big Al, the allosaurus .The second programme is a “making of” documentary, showing how scientists analysed Al's bones
Part 1 The Ballad of Big Al
145 million years ago an adolescent Allosaurus lay down to die in a dried up river bed. In 1991 scientists discovered his perfectly preserved body and nicknamed him Big Al. This is the story of this predatory dinosaur's life - how he grew from a tiny hatchling to the terror of the Jurassic plains, why his body was covered in so many wounds and how he ended up in the river bed.
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