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The World's Greatest Dinosaur Discovery | Dinosaur Attack!

201952 minPGdocumentary

Fossilized dinosaur footprints found by a palaeontologist in the 1960s suggest a dramatic hunt and kill, revealing a one hundred million year old battle.

archaeology evolution extinction-events animals

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The World's Greatest Dinosaur Discovery | Dinosaur Attack!

2019• 52 minPG

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Fossilized dinosaur footprints found by a palaeontologist in the 1960s suggest a dramatic hunt and kill, revealing a one hundred million year old battle.

Synopsis

Sixty years ago a palaeontologist stumbled upon the greatest dinosaur find of the century - fossilised dinosaur footprints that, like the scene of a crime, suggested that a hunt and a kill had taken place. No one believed him. Featuring computer technology, this prehistoric detective story reconstructs in detail a one hundred million year old fight between two giants of the dinosaur era.

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