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    • Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives

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      This a four-part documentary series presented by the BBC. Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives explores the magnificent discovery of fossils. Produced by Mike Salisbury and written and presented by David Attenborough, it originally aired in 1989. Examining rocks and their mysteries was always a boyhood passion Attenborough and this is a passion that shines through in his presentation of this series. During the four-parts he tries to demonstrate how life evolved and does so by taking viewers on a voyage around the world to visit some of the most renown fossil sites.

      The first part of the series Magic in the Rocks, Attenborough displays a picture of how prehistoric life has emerged. He uncovers many crucial clues in the form of fossilized remains that had been undiscovered for years. Putting Flesh on the Bone reconstructs a pterodactyl in the form of a model aircraft, a fascinating sight. This is done to examine if a such species could have flown at one time.

      Attenborough takes viewers to many different museums in the Dinosaur part of the series. His focus is to showcase how dinosaurs existed in real like and speculates how their existence saddlery fell. The final part of the series the Rare Glimpses we are brought to four popular places to find the greatest fossils as the conditions are at their best.

      Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives is a fascinating look into the world of fossils.

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      Published on December 10, 2008 · Filed under: Biology, Environment

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    • CBat

      It's only letting me watch one video at a time, and then informing me that the video is not available. Wonderful docu. though, very informative!

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    • Flich

      Excellent documentary with non-meladramatic narration and plenty of interesting content. One thing, though… I have no idea where Attenborough got that thing about being able to tell which of two duckbilled dinosaurs was female by size alone. The females (we know they were the females because of their pelvic bones, etc) of many dinosaurs, including T-rex, were larger than the males, so it seems to me that he was basing his claim off an anthropocentric assumption that, since human females are usually smaller, all females of all species are usually smaller.

    • robertm

      @Flich

      The assumption of gender was based on the relative sizes of the bonny frill in two specimen of the same species and of similar age, not the over all size of the organism.

      The reasoning being: given that the specific construction of the head plates are almost certainly arbitrary, evidenced by the wide variation in dimension among the closely similar species of duckbill, it is highly likely that the main utility of the structure was one of social advertisement among the males of the species.

      Though, I am sure that in the technical literature a more thorough investigation is undertaken, including an examination of pelvic and other bone size variation among individuals of the same species.

      This was an excellent documentary, and I do not say that lightly. Other than some minor numerical corrections needed (such as estimation of time of human origins and other minor dating errors) in order to be strictly up to date with current findings, this was top notch work.

     
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