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Dinosaurs Alive Seamless Page 1 of 17 DINOSAURS ALIVE SEAMLESS PAGE 1 OF 17 01:00:09.09 GRAPHICS ON SCREEN Giant Screen Films Presents a Production of David Clark Inc. Giant Screen Films Maryland Science Center Stardust Blue LLC. 01:00:17.24 GRAPHICS ON SCREEN In Association with American Museum of Natural History and Hugo Productions With Generous Support from The National Science Foundation Narrated by Michael Douglas 01:00:56.07 Host VO 80 million years ago, two dinosaurs, a crested Protoceratops and a sharp-clawed Velociraptor, fought to the death. 01:01:11.27 Host VO Somehow, as they died in the sands of the Gobi Desert, their battle was frozen in time. The Velociraptor flat on its back, its clawed arm caught in the jaws of the Protoceratops, an extraordinary fossil, a mysterious glimpse of life and death in the Age of Dinosaurs. 01:01:42.03 GRAPHICS ON SCREEN Dinosaurs Alive 01:02:03.25 Host VO For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs roamed every corner of the planet. Only a very few left evidence of their existence, their fossilized bones. 01:02:18.21 Host VO And those bones never cease to fascinate us. 01:02:34.11 Host VO Dinosaurs came in amazing shapes and sizes. Some were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. 01:02:52.08 Host VO Paleontologists, the scientists who study prehistoric life, are discovering more dinosaurs now than ever before. And this fossil evidence is allowing them to reconstruct not only their strange skeletons but also their lives. 01:03:11.29 Host VO An example is this gigantic long-necked, plant- eater known as Seismosaurus. Found in New Mexico, it lived during the Jurassic Period, 150 DINOSAURS ALIVE SEAMLESS PAGE 2 OF 17 million years ago, when many dinosaurs grew to unprecedented size. Seismosaurus means “earth- shaking lizard,” and there is no doubt that its footsteps echoed across the Jurassic landscape. Measuring 110 feet from nose to tail, it is one of the longest dinosaurs ever discovered. Strangely, when it was excavated, some 240 smooth, round stones were found in and around its huge stomach cavity. 01:04:04.26 Host VO Some scientists believe Seismosaurus swallowed stones to help its digestion. Others say that finding the stones was a coincidence, that they were part of the riverbed where Seismosaurus was found. 01:04:25.25 Host VO Seismosaurus weighed over 30 tons, as much as eight elephants... 01:04:33.29 Host VO ...and must have consumed hundreds of pounds of vegetation every day. 01:04:42.07 Host VO Sometimes scientists can even learn what dinosaurs ate... 01:04:48.22 Host VO ...from clues they left behind in their fossilized dung. 01:04:58.06 Host VO Dinosaurs were first discovered in Europe and America, but in the 20th century scientific explorers struck out for the most remote corners of the earth... 01:05:09.27 Host VO ...and the full extent of the dinosaur kingdom began to be revealed. 01:05:16.23 GRAPHICS ON SCREEN Map Map of Asia focusing in on Mongolia and Gobi Desert 01:05:20.07 Host VO The Gobi Desert spans a half-million square miles of Mongolia and China, the ancient land of Genghis Khan. DINOSAURS ALIVE SEAMLESS PAGE 3 OF 17 01:05:36.27 Host VO Beneath sands that camel caravans traversed for centuries, lay a vast treasure trove of fossils, undisturbed for more than 70 million years that would forever change our view of dinosaur life. 01:06:01.12 Host VO In the 1920s, a team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History set out to explore the little-known Gobi. Their leader was Roy Chapman Andrews. 01:06:21.04 Host VO Andrews and his team traveled in a fleet of automobiles. It was one of the first major expeditions to use motorized transport in Central Asia. To keep his expedition supplied when the nearest gas station was a thousand miles away, he came up with a novel plan, sending out camel caravans in advance, loaded with food and fuel. And the camels provided an unexpected service to the expedition. Hair, plucked from their shedding winter coats, was ideal for packing fragile fossils. Mongolia was a dangerous place full of roving bandits, but Andrews, thought to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones, reveled in the adventure of it all. 01:07:12.13 Roy Chapman Andrews VO Never again will I have such a feeling as Mongolia gave me. All this thrilled me to the core. Somewhere in the depths of that vast, silent desert lay those records of the past that I had come to seek. 01:07:30.29 Host VO Andrews fended off the bandits, but he and his team could not avoid the violent sandstorms that often sweep across the Gobi. 01:07:51.20 Host VO To their amazement, they found that each new storm uncovered a wealth of bones, dinosaur bones, never before seen, and perfectly preserved in the desert sands. 01:08:08.09 Host VO Mark Norell and Mike Novacek of the American Museum of Natural History, following in Andrews’ footsteps, have been leading expeditions to the Gobi every year since 1990. DINOSAURS ALIVE SEAMLESS PAGE 4 OF 17 01:08:50.10 Mike Novacek VO That area looks pretty good. I think we should go down over... 01:08:52.18 Host VO Fascinated by dinosaurs in their youth, Mike and Mark have become renowned paleontologists. 01:08:57.29 Mark Norell VO/OC The light is good. If we have a few more hours, it... 01:09:02.02 Mike Novacek OC Yeah. 01:09:02.13 Mark Norell OC/VO ...we will not have trouble finding things here. 01:09:12.18 Host VO They have dug dinosaurs all over the world, but they have made their most spectacular finds here in the Gobi Desert. 01:09:27.25 Host VO Doctor Julia Clarke has arrived in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, with graduate students Alan Turner and Amy Balanoff to prepare for this year’s expedition. 01:09:37.22 Alan Turner OC Yeah, that is... 01:09:39.07 Female Voice #1 VO I remember walking over the temple, right? 01:09:41.19 Host VO They are part of a team that will join Mike and Mark in the desert. 01:09:45.27 Julia Clarke VO This will be my sixth summer in the Gobi. Mongolia has proven so rich in fossils, I know that each year there will be great new finds to be made. 01:10:13.01 Host VO There are few paved roads outside of Ulaanbaatar. The team’s destination in the western Gobi is a minimum of three days’ driving, a “Mad Max” journey over hot, dusty plains and through mountain passes. 01:10:50.23 Host VO In 1921, after months of overland travel, Roy Chapman Andrews’ motor-caravan came across a strange and beautiful place of eroded canyons and DINOSAURS ALIVE SEAMLESS PAGE 5 OF 17 sandstone towers. The late-afternoon sun seemed to set the rocks on fire. Andrews named it the Flaming Cliffs. Here they would come upon one of the greatest repositories of dinosaur remains ever found. More than 80 years later, the Flaming Cliffs are still a fabled and productive destination for dinosaur hunters. 01:11:34.19 Host VO To find dinosaurs, paleontologists must first look in the right places. They know that fossils are preserved in certain rock deposits. The only tool they need at first is keen eyesight. Tiny white bone fragments on the surface hint at what could be an entire dinosaur buried below. 01:11:56.00 Mike Novacek OC There is a lot of bone in here. 01:11:58.14 Mark Norell OC Always a good place. Hey, come check this out. 01:12:01.18 Mike Novacek OC Oh, what? 01:12:02.02 Mark Norell OC An egg. 01:12:03.06 Host VO With decades of experience, Mike and Mark can readily spot fossils and identify them. 01:12:08.22 Mark Norell OC Oh, that is a nice one. That is a nice one. 01:12:11.22 Host VO For grad students Alan and Amy, time in the field is the best way to develop their own skills. 01:12:18.06 Alan Turner VO/OC This is my first time going to the Gobi with Mark and everyone. I am really excited and happy to be part of a tradition that goes back to Roy Chapman Andrews. I do not know where to... 01:12:28.18 Host VO The Gobi expeditions are a collaboration with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. This year, Mongolian grad student Boldra Minjin, joins the team. 01:12:36.28 Boldra Minjin VO My father is a paleontologist and when he first showed me a giant skeleton found in Mongolia, I DINOSAURS ALIVE SEAMLESS PAGE 6 OF 17 could not believe such animals really lived. I have loved finding fossils ever since. 01:12:52.01 Davka OC Julia! <speaking in foreign language>. 01:12:59.15 Alan Turner VO What you got going over here? 01:13:02.00 Julia Clarke OC What did you find? 01:13:03.28 Host VO Today, after only a few hours of searching, the team uncovers a fossilized skull. Julia is quick to recognize it as that of a large, armored dinosaur. 01:13:14.13 Male Voice #1 VO It is coming out real well here.
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