Discovery Channel - When Dinosaurs Ruled (2000) Part 1 The Land Time Forgot

When Dinosaurs Ruled

This is a collection of 8 DVDs examining the discovery and our understanding of dinosaurs - palaeontology - through interviews with current dinosaur hunters - palaeontologists - and reconstructions or original film of them at work, with occasional archive footage of early explorers. You get to see the palaeontologists in their natural habitats, searching for and digging up bones, as well as many scenes set in museums, workshops and laboratories, with some major discoveries being shown or reconstructed - and reconstruction is what palaeontology is all about! Mixed in with this is CGI footage of the dinosaurs in their habitats, going about their business, which is mainly stamping about or hunting each other. The CGI is not of the standard of the BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs , but this is not that sort of programme - this one focuses on the modern-day discovery of the evidence for the dinosaurs, with illustrations / scenes of how those dinosaurs might have looked or behaved.

Part 1: The Land Time Forgot

This programme takes us beyond the lush forests, roaring lions and the blazing sun of Africa to reveal the World's most remote and hard to reach dinosaur fossils known to exist. We follow paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team from the southern tip of Africa to the northern reaches of Morocco as we meet some of the most diverse dinosaurs to have roamed our World.