Chased By dinosaurs
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[edit] Chased by Dinosaurs
This program features Nigel Marven as a time-traveller who encounters dinosaurs in the wild. The five-part series featured Nigel and his "team of fellow explorers" encountering prehistoric over a large range of time, and seeing creatures not featured in the original series.
[edit] "Land of Giants"
Nigel travels back in time with his film crew. He sees a herd of Argentinosaurus crossing a salt flat to get to a vegetated area round a lake where they will breed, but predators are obstacles on the way, including Sarcosuchus and Giganotosaurus. At one point, an Argentinosaurus is persuaded to walk onto an array of heavy-duty weighing scales intended for weighing lorries, hidden under leaf-litter: the resulting weight is 92 tons. After the weight experiment, Nigel is nearly killed by a Giganotosaurus and witnesses 5 Giganotosaurus kill a young Argentinosaurus.
100 Million Years Ago — Middle Cretaceous Argentina.
Conditions: volcanic ash fields and conifer forest
Filming Locations: Tenerife and Canary Islands
[edit] Land of giants animals
[edit] "The Giant Claw"
Nigel searches the early Mongolia deserts and forests for Therizinosaurus, who has massive and very long claws. On his journey, Nigel dashes across a nesting ground of Protoceratops into a forest ruled by Velociraptor and then into the path of a Tarbosaurus. He sees a Therizinosaurus caught in a duel with Tarbosaurus (the Therizinosaurus wins). Nigel then finds that Therizinosaurus is a herbivore that uses its sickle-claws to hook tree and bush branches towards its mouth.
75 Million Years Ago — Late Cretaceous Mongolia.
Conditions: Desert, and dense forest growing on the sand dunes.
Filming locations: Egypt, Fraser Island, and Australia
