If dinosaurs had had a philosophical inclination - they would never have imagined, in their wildest dreams, that one distant day small and extraordinarily vulnerable creatures would look upon them as abdolutely beautiful.
Had these on VHS when they first came out- more years ago than I care to remember. I thought they were revolutionary - this was years before Jurassic Park or Walking With Dinosaurs. It is great to see them again. Thanks for uploading! Cheers Paul
I remember that my grandmother had bought this on vhs and whenever I went to her house for Christmas and thanksgiving I would always watch it a dozen times.
I wish this PBS Documentary featuring all 4 episodes of the Dinosaurs was out on DVD. I liked the animated Pair of Herrarosaurus, Saurosuchus, maiasaura & Troodon in this episode.
Permian ( maybe because it reminded me of my mums friend who always had Crazy perms lol) and Triassic are my favourite ERAS Possibly because they had such weird and diverse types of life particularly in the oceans But Rembr the fossil records only Show A very small percentage of the Life in the Time they died there was . Just as extreme amounts of creatures On earth Weird and wonderful worms soft insects animals that don't fossilise well Like imagine a Small liszard like snakey thing It's small ribs would dissolve we really look at the fossil Histories through TEETH .. it's our fundemantal clue
When I watched this as a kid, I remember being infuriatingly confused about what sort of dinosaur was depicted at 53:15. It was the only time I remember not being able to figure out the genus of something I saw on TV. For a while I thought it was Ugrosaurus, since I had a book that depicted Ugrosaurus as having a gigantic nose horn like this, but it was the only illustration of that dinosaur I could find anywhere, and there was barely any information about Ugrosaurus in anything I read, so I couldn't confirm my suspicion. Cut to today, eighteen or so years later, I'm still curious as to what it is, and have since found out that Ugrosaurus is considered to be a junior synonym of Triceratops. Having more access to different interpretations of dinosaurs, it looks pretty indisputably like a Pachyrhinosaurus. I remember when I was a kid, I ruled that out because nobody I'd seen ever depicted Pachyrhinosaurus as having anything more than a slightly raised bump on its muzzle. Now I feel a bit silly.
I am actually watching your dinosaurs video, and also I am really into dinosaurs as well. That I actually being into dinosaurs for a long time now. I hope that there will be more videos, in the near future as well.
dr.bob still had long hair but it was brown.. i guess the long hair thing on us old dudes doesn't go away..lol he's got great points about the meteor theory being not the smoking gun when it came to the great extinction..
At minutes 5:18 to 5:30 Herrerasaurus eat ''a Mammal Like Reptile''....maybe Probelesodon or Thrinaxodon??....very good documentary;thanks for upload....greetings from Chile-South America....
From way back when there were actually many serious, educational and really well made programmes on Discovery Channel ( here in Europe) that didn't underestimate the intelligence, curiousity and attention span of their viewers - instead of the typical contentless and stupid crap that is mostly on these days - just as with National Geographic and History Channel btw. I have recently stopped my subscriptions to these once great channels because of this massive drop in quality and ambition level within the past 10 - 15 years - did anyone else here do that or feel like doing it? 🙄
@@TheGroundedAviator That was an episode of PBS's "The New Explorers" called, "Skeletons in the Sand." Excellent program. Inspired me to become a geologist.
The music at the intro, I heard this in this footage of dinosaur stop motion animation: m.th-cam.com/video/4hhaakNFrFI/w-d-xo.html (turns out it was an excerpt from 20:37 - 21:12 of this very video)
If the extintion happened so fast from a comet/asteroid/whatever where are all the dead dinosaurs at the KT boundrie. Something else was killing them off before the impact.
Updating a little what was presented in the documentary, "rauisuchians" like Postosuchus and Saurosuchus went extinct a good 15 million years before the Triassic/Jurassic extinction event, what killed them? we don't know. Something curious is that contrary to the scenario presented here, aside from North America they did face competition from large dinosaurian predators, large specimens of Herrerasaurus are as big as the largest Saurosuchus for example. There was some research presented some months ago about large dinosaurs steering clear of the tropics during the Late Triassic due to very high temperatures and unstable climate, North America was in the tropics back then so that might explain why there were no large dinosaurs living alongside Postosuchus.
No matter what year they find the "biggest or largest dinosaur ever to live", they should not say "this is the biggest or largest dinosaur that ever lived"..As the next documentary showcases an even bigger one than the last, & so forth doco after doco after doco showcasing newly discovered bigger specimens one after the other, all saying the same thing. The term should be "The biggest largest dinosaur ever discovered by far". Many other species are yet to be discovered & the biggest largest dinosaur ever to walk on Earth is still undiscovered.
@@moatguy4471 That wasn't the question. The question was the identity of those dinosaurs behind Herrerasaurus in the mural. I assume it's Lesothosaurus and Heterodontosaurus.
@@stefanalexanderlungu1503 I don't think so. Herrerasaurus and Plateosaurus are from the Late Triassic period. Lesothosaurus and Heterodontosaurus are from the Early Jurrasic period.
tigris115 brontosaurus has been officially renamed by the way Robert Bakker always believed brontosaurus still existed I wonder if he had an I told you so to some paleontologist.
Is she saying Dino'SAURS' or is she saying that Dinos had 'SARS'? Is that what caused their extinction? Maybe if they had some chicken noodle soup,diet ginger ale and bed rest , they might have survived it. Also , I didn't know David Letterman was a paleontologist in the early 90s .(50:54 ) ;)
Methinks Bakker is wrong....it would take a Heart the size of a Fire Engine to pump blood as high as 30/40 feet..........the Bronto probably hoovered it's food up side to side...then 1 step forward and do it again....energy saving........
@@DokktorDeth yes it is. An intense study in 2015 showed that despite the initial thought that Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus are the same because they look similar, Brontosaurus had significant differences compared to Apatosaurus. Brontosaurus is now a separate, valid genus, and no longer synonymous with Apatosaurus, despite similarities.
True story , the Herrerasaurus was actually originally meant to be called "Hellerasaurus" as named by it's discoverer Osvaldo Reig ( the 'Hell' meant to describe' it's hellish-jaws) Unfortunately , the name was mistakenly heard as 'Herrarasaurus'. This of course happening after Reig's Chinese assistant spoke at a press conference regarding the discovery of the new dinosaur on Reig's behalf, who was unable to attend due to a family emergency. The damage was done ...the Hellarasaurus was now thought to be called Herrarasaurus by the world at large. Reig afterwards was heard to remark "Meh" , who gives a shit anyways" and didn't bother to correct the mistake. True story. ;)
That's, uh... not true. Its name means "Herrera's lizard", after the rancher who discovered the first specimen. I also doubt that the Chinese assistant would have swapped the L and R sounds since Chinese has the L sound.
I doubt that is true. Herrerasaurus was named after the farmer who discovered the fossils, Don Victorino Herrera. Herrerasaurus means "Herrera's lizard". Herrera is an actual name.
@@paleoph6168 NO , NO , not terring a rie, HONESTRY! Dat how it got a name "Herrasaurus"...Ooooo! Rike a big, mean scaly monster flom HERR!! Hahaha.....solly if dat was a too scaly! So , rook, can we arr just agree that a ranguage is a very dericate matter??.................[ crickets chirping ] .........................Oh, you peopre can arr just go to HERR!!
@@tarwagon where did you get the information of the misnaming of Herrerasaurus then? Most sources state that Herrerasaurus was named so in honor of the farmer who found the first specimens, Victorino Herrera.
Hhmm....@ 7:11 ,the narrator says "in the oceans , dolphin-like fish lizards feasted on other sea organisms" ....lol, I have a problem with that statement , mostly the "fish lizard" part . They were NOT lizards just off the top (wtf is a fish lizard? b.t.w) A more accurate phrasing would have been " dolphin-like marine reptiles." The fact that this was made in 1992 isn't an excuse for that mistake , we've known Icthyosaurs were reptiles , not lizards (or fish lizards for that matter, lol) for sometime now. I'm surprised they would make an incorrect statement like that , it seems to be an accurate(for it's time) documentary otherwise. Maybe she's implying that a fish and a lizard fucked( as hot as that sounds) and produced a new species , the "Fish Lizard". ;)
I miss the days when just about every show about dinosaurs had Bob Bakker and Jack Horner seemingly trolling each other, never on screen together. ;)
They actually were on screen together for “The Real Jurassic Park” on NOVA.
i know I'm quite randomly asking but do anyone know a good place to watch new series online?
@Gannon Graysen ehh try Flixportal. You can find it on google:) -billy
@Billy Ellis Thank you, I signed up and it seems to work =) I appreciate it!!
@Gannon Graysen glad I could help =)
This is such a nostalgic documentary. As a kid I would watch this over and over.
If dinosaurs had had a philosophical inclination - they would never have imagined, in their wildest dreams, that one distant day small and extraordinarily vulnerable creatures would look upon them as abdolutely beautiful.
Had these on VHS when they first came out- more years ago than I care to remember. I thought they were revolutionary - this was years before Jurassic Park or Walking With Dinosaurs. It is great to see them again. Thanks for uploading! Cheers Paul
jackhughesbooks um actually it only came out a year before Jurassic park. But yeah this is very accurate fore it's time.
I remember that my grandmother had bought this on vhs and whenever I went to her house for Christmas and thanksgiving I would always watch it a dozen times.
You know about this series too Zim?
This was my personal favorite of the 4.
The second one of the 4 is my personal favorite.
Thank you Sir for posting thrse amazing videos, Thanks from Ole from Norway
I wish this PBS Documentary featuring all 4 episodes of the Dinosaurs was out on DVD. I liked the animated Pair of Herrarosaurus, Saurosuchus, maiasaura & Troodon in this episode.
We need another dinosaur documentary depicted threw hand draw animation.
You know about this series too Poke?
@@LagiacrusTheTerminator Ah hell yeah! I just wish I knew about it as a kid.
@@The_PokeSaurus I’ve known about it since I was a kid.
I love the animation used in this documentary
David Alexovich did do a Wonderful Job with creating the animation sequences of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Dinosaurs.
If it choked on that rock the rock would not be sitting in the middle of all the other rocks.
Hah, that scene of Bob holding those pebbles in his hands to demonstrate his theory is super nostalgic.
Genuinely wish this doc series would be released on DVD or remaster
but very informative ;) I like it
This is dated now but it sure was one of my favorites when it came out, watched many times.
Great 😇 thanks for putting this up It's been ages since a new Vid about Dinos has been Put on U TUBE .. lovely Il defo subscribe
The nostalgia is real
Permian ( maybe because it reminded me of my mums friend who always had Crazy perms lol) and Triassic are my favourite ERAS Possibly because they had such weird and diverse types of life particularly in the oceans But Rembr the fossil records only Show A very small percentage of the Life in the Time they died there was . Just as extreme amounts of creatures On earth Weird and wonderful worms soft insects animals that don't fossilise well Like imagine a Small liszard like snakey thing It's small ribs would dissolve we really look at the fossil Histories through TEETH .. it's our fundemantal clue
5:36 Random Animal: Oh shit
That's a Hyperodapedon, a rhynchosaur.
When I watched this as a kid, I remember being infuriatingly confused about what sort of dinosaur was depicted at 53:15. It was the only time I remember not being able to figure out the genus of something I saw on TV. For a while I thought it was Ugrosaurus, since I had a book that depicted Ugrosaurus as having a gigantic nose horn like this, but it was the only illustration of that dinosaur I could find anywhere, and there was barely any information about Ugrosaurus in anything I read, so I couldn't confirm my suspicion.
Cut to today, eighteen or so years later, I'm still curious as to what it is, and have since found out that Ugrosaurus is considered to be a junior synonym of Triceratops. Having more access to different interpretations of dinosaurs, it looks pretty indisputably like a Pachyrhinosaurus. I remember when I was a kid, I ruled that out because nobody I'd seen ever depicted Pachyrhinosaurus as having anything more than a slightly raised bump on its muzzle. Now I feel a bit silly.
its clearly a monoclonis a earlier veision of ceratopsian related to the later larger triceratops
The Pachyrhinosaurus depicted in this documentary has the now innacurate huge nasal horn instead of a nasal boss.
i know this is old but... my heart is in my throat when they walked along that cliffside without ropes or any basic safety gear.
I am actually watching your dinosaurs video, and also I am really into dinosaurs as well. That I actually being into dinosaurs for a long time now. I hope that there will be more videos, in the near future as well.
And also, I actually enjoyed the dinosaurs art as well.
dr.bob still had long hair but it was brown.. i guess the long hair thing on us old dudes doesn't go away..lol he's got great points about the meteor theory being not the smoking gun when it came to the great extinction..
Now seismosaurus is considered a diplodocus.
Specifically Diplodocus hallorum.
At minutes 5:18 to 5:30 Herrerasaurus eat ''a Mammal Like Reptile''....maybe Probelesodon or Thrinaxodon??....very good documentary;thanks for upload....greetings from Chile-South America....
From way back when there were actually many serious, educational and really well made programmes on Discovery Channel ( here in Europe) that didn't underestimate the intelligence, curiousity and attention span of their viewers - instead of the typical contentless and stupid crap that is mostly on these days - just as with National Geographic and History Channel btw.
I have recently stopped my subscriptions to these once great channels because of this massive drop in quality and ambition level within the past 10 - 15 years - did anyone else here do that or feel like doing it? 🙄
Bjowolf2 Try CuriosityStream
Me favorite
This is some of the animals that were used as ideas for Walking With Dinosaurs
Paul Soreno...looks more like a Wise-Guy or Good-Fella than a Scientist..............
He's an amazing one. There is a great 1996 (or there about's) National Geographic that shows his amazing exploits in Africa.
@@TheGroundedAviator That was an episode of PBS's "The New Explorers" called, "Skeletons in the Sand." Excellent program. Inspired me to become a geologist.
@@cogitaretoo Cool! I forgot the name but will check out when I can.
*Paul Sereno
TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE ,
The music at the intro, I heard this in this footage of dinosaur stop motion animation: m.th-cam.com/video/4hhaakNFrFI/w-d-xo.html
(turns out it was an excerpt from 20:37 - 21:12 of this very video)
If the extintion happened so fast from a comet/asteroid/whatever where are all the dead dinosaurs at the KT boundrie. Something else was killing them off before the impact.
Updating a little what was presented in the documentary, "rauisuchians" like Postosuchus and Saurosuchus went extinct a good 15 million years before the Triassic/Jurassic extinction event, what killed them? we don't know.
Something curious is that contrary to the scenario presented here, aside from North America they did face competition from large dinosaurian predators, large specimens of Herrerasaurus are as big as the largest Saurosuchus for example. There was some research presented some months ago about large dinosaurs steering clear of the tropics during the Late Triassic due to very high temperatures and unstable climate, North America was in the tropics back then so that might explain why there were no large dinosaurs living alongside Postosuchus.
HoveringAboveMyself actually I've looked at the time scale and postosuchus goes extinct exactly at the Triassic extinction.
we need someone to time stamp the shit out of this
No matter what year they find the "biggest or largest dinosaur ever to live", they should not say "this is the biggest or largest dinosaur that ever lived"..As the next documentary showcases an even bigger one than the last, & so forth doco after doco after doco showcasing newly discovered bigger specimens one after the other, all saying the same thing. The term should be "The biggest largest dinosaur ever discovered by far". Many other species are yet to be discovered & the biggest largest dinosaur ever to walk on Earth is still undiscovered.
TheKoojee For all we know, the absolute biggest species is still alive, deep underwater. More than 90% of the ocean is a complete mystery to us.
TheKoojee so far it's a competition between Argentinasaurus and amphocelias.
and then Dreadnoughtus was discovered, bigger than both and it was only a juvenile
Science in a nutshell
@@knightbane3752 ROFLMAO - Good one! 😅
7:00 What is that between Herrerasaurus and (what I assume is) Plateosaurus?
Maybe Lesothosaurus? I'm wondering what's behind it as well- Heterodontosaurus? Some kind of early sauropodomorph?
The more I look at the illustration the fewer of these I recognize
Well Herrerasaurus was a carnivore and Plateosaurus a herbivore.
@@moatguy4471 That wasn't the question. The question was the identity of those dinosaurs behind Herrerasaurus in the mural. I assume it's Lesothosaurus and Heterodontosaurus.
@@stefanalexanderlungu1503 I don't think so. Herrerasaurus and Plateosaurus are from the Late Triassic period. Lesothosaurus and Heterodontosaurus are from the Early Jurrasic period.
this old as documentry
I'd hate to be a stick in the mud but it's APATOSAURUS. Come on, this was made in 1992.
Brontosaur is back.
tigris115 brontosaurus has been officially renamed by the way Robert Bakker always believed brontosaurus still existed I wonder if he had an I told you so to some paleontologist.
animalman57 guess who's back... back again. Bronto's back... tell a friend...
Brontosaurus doesn't exist.. the name was rightfully changed, Barker knows this. When was this originally aired?
John Buchanan it aired in 1992
Is she saying Dino'SAURS' or is she saying that Dinos had 'SARS'? Is that what caused their extinction? Maybe if they had some chicken noodle soup,diet ginger ale and bed rest , they might have survived it. Also , I didn't know David Letterman was a paleontologist in the early 90s .(50:54 ) ;)
Est ce que quelqu'un aurait les épisodes de cette série documentaire en français ? Merci d'avance.
0:40
Where does one find the stupid hats that paleontologists wear?
Methinks Bakker is wrong....it would take a Heart the size of a Fire Engine to pump blood as high as 30/40 feet..........the Bronto probably hoovered it's food up side to side...then 1 step forward and do it again....energy saving........
Then explain giraffes??
12 FEET...NOT 30TO40
Sizemorefor they actually get paid to do this shit
it's called the Apatosaurus, not Brontosaurus
Brontosaur is back.
No it isn't.
@@DokktorDeth yes it is. An intense study in 2015 showed that despite the initial thought that Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus are the same because they look similar, Brontosaurus had significant differences compared to Apatosaurus. Brontosaurus is now a separate, valid genus, and no longer synonymous with Apatosaurus, despite similarities.
Too many cartoons!
True story , the Herrerasaurus was actually originally meant to be called "Hellerasaurus" as named by it's discoverer Osvaldo Reig ( the 'Hell' meant to describe' it's hellish-jaws) Unfortunately , the name was mistakenly heard as 'Herrarasaurus'. This of course happening after Reig's Chinese assistant spoke at a press conference regarding the discovery of the new dinosaur on Reig's behalf, who was unable to attend due to a family emergency. The damage was done ...the Hellarasaurus was now thought to be called Herrarasaurus by the world at large. Reig afterwards was heard to remark "Meh" , who gives a shit anyways" and didn't bother to correct the mistake. True story. ;)
That's, uh... not true. Its name means "Herrera's lizard", after the rancher who discovered the first specimen. I also doubt that the Chinese assistant would have swapped the L and R sounds since Chinese has the L sound.
tarwagon Hellasaurus?
I doubt that is true. Herrerasaurus was named after the farmer who discovered the fossils, Don Victorino Herrera. Herrerasaurus means "Herrera's lizard". Herrera is an actual name.
@@paleoph6168 NO , NO , not terring a rie, HONESTRY! Dat how it got a name "Herrasaurus"...Ooooo! Rike a big, mean scaly monster flom HERR!! Hahaha.....solly if dat was a too scaly! So , rook, can we arr just agree that a ranguage is a very dericate matter??.................[ crickets chirping ] .........................Oh, you peopre can arr just go to HERR!!
@@tarwagon where did you get the information of the misnaming of Herrerasaurus then? Most sources state that Herrerasaurus was named so in honor of the farmer who found the first specimens, Victorino Herrera.
frustrating listening to this lady say dinosauws
It's painful to me. I can't listen to her say dinosars. There's another documentary on here with Jeff Goldblum narrating and he says it, too. Aaarghh.
Hhmm....@ 7:11 ,the narrator says "in the oceans , dolphin-like fish lizards feasted on other sea organisms" ....lol, I have a problem with that statement , mostly the "fish lizard" part . They were NOT lizards just off the top (wtf is a fish lizard? b.t.w) A more accurate phrasing would have been " dolphin-like marine reptiles." The fact that this was made in 1992 isn't an excuse for that mistake , we've known Icthyosaurs were reptiles , not lizards (or fish lizards for that matter, lol) for sometime now. I'm surprised they would make an incorrect statement like that , it seems to be an accurate(for it's time) documentary otherwise. Maybe she's implying that a fish and a lizard fucked( as hot as that sounds) and produced a new species , the "Fish Lizard". ;)
You realize icthyosaur means fish lizard right? Icthyo means fish and saur means lizard in Latin.
tarwagon
"Icthyosaur" literally means "fish lizard".
@@dwaynepipe3117 It's 'reptile', NOT 'lizard'.
@@DokktorDeth en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/-saur
@@DokktorDeth it can be either way, though "lizard" is more used than "reptile" as the translation of "saurus".