| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 min. 10 sec.) ; 344736198 bytes |
| Summary |
After navigating the perils at the end of the Permian, our journey spends tonight's episode of in the Mesozoic just in time for the Age of Dinosaurs, Down Under. Things get off to a shaky start though with the planet left so devastated that the landscape where Sydney now stands was a sandy wasteland. Until recently, nearly everything we've known about the Age of Dinosaurs has come from other continents.But Australia languishes as a Mesozoic backwater no longer. New discoveries are revealing a southern landscape ruled with a reptilian rod: dinosaurs stomped in the west, stampeded in the east and shivered in the south. Some were among the largest dinosaurs to have walked the planet. In today's desert heart we plunge into an ancient inland sea, full of monsters. But reptiles didn't have the world all to themselves. Mammals like the enigmatic platypus lived alongside them, ready for their moment in the sun.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Written, directed and produced by: Richard Smith; Commissioning editor for ABC Karina Holden, Executive producer Chris Hilton |
| Event |
Broadcast 2012-04-08 at 19:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
| Subject |
Dinosaurs -- Evolution.
|
|
Kronosaurus.
|
|
Marine animals, Fossil.
|
|
Natural history.
|
|
Sandstone.
|
|
Mesozoic Geologic Period.
|
|
Australia.
|
| Form |
Streaming video
|
| Author |
Smith, Richard, director
|
|
Elliott, David, contributor
|
|
Elliott, Judy, contributor
|
|
Flannery, Tim, contributor
|
|
Hocknull, Scott, contributor
|
|
Mackenzie, Robyn, contributor
|
|
Norman, Mark, contributor
|
|
Rich, Tom, contributor
|
|
Zammit, Maria, contributor
|
|
