Paleoworld

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Rise of the Predators

In an isolated valley of Argentina fossil hunters follow the deadly trail of a dinosaur, a killer from the prehistoric past.

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Flight of the Pterosaurs

World first great fliers were not birds. They took to the sky 60 million years before the first known bird and then they vanished leaving scant clues about how they lived. These were the pterosaurs also known as the pterodactyls.

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Back to the Seas

50 million years ago a hungry wolf-like creature found the sea more inviting than the land. As schools of fish swam by it put its paw in the water for the first time to snatch the meal.

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Carnosaurs

For most of the dinosaur era fast vicious deadly flesh-eating predators were no larger than tigers. Then came a fiendish new strategy for survive. Dinosaurs began to grow some as big as a building.

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Missing Links

Over a million years ago in remote caves in China and Indonesia our prehistoric ancestors mastered fire, shaped stone tools and faced ferocious predators such as saber-tooth cave lions.

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Sea Monsters

The tranquil shores of the oceans mask an underwater world with a frightening and violent past. Very real monsters once prowled these depths then vanished leaving behind stunning proof of their existence.

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Tale of a Sail

Millions of years before the great dinosaurs monsters of a different sort ruled the world. Strange sailed-back creatures like these are our ancient ancestors. Skeletons hidden in our closet.

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Attack of the Killer Kangaroos

Scientists once thought koalas and kangaroos can only survive in the isolation of Australia. But recent discoveries tell a different story: bloodthirsty, saber-toothed marsupials made a stand on every continent of the world.

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Dino Sex

On those hot Jurassic nights how did the dinosaurs make the earth move? Now scientists giving us a tantalizing look at how these creatures courted, mated and cared for the young.

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Mistaken Identity

The study of dinosaurs is a tale of discoveries and blunders. The head that should have been a tail, the horn that was really a claw, the meat-eater's head stuck on a vegetarian's body.

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The Legendary T-rex

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Dino Docs

The study of dinosaurs has entered a new age. Predators have now become patients. High tech medicine is extracting new clues from ancient bones and revealing the genetic secrets of dinosaur DNA.

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The Mysteries of Extinction

Western North America, 65 million years ago, a world is about to come to an end. An asteroid, 6 miles wide, slams into the Earth, dust clouds block out all sunlight, thousands of species perish, the dinosaurs never recover.