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Documentary, Dinosaur Planet - Ep 2 Little Das Hunt 2003
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00:01Beneath the wings of giants is a land that thunders from the tread of restless herds,
00:08and echoes with the cries of killers, large and small.
00:22As a hunter, little Das is a little wet behind the ears,
00:27but he's determined to prove himself.
00:34His targets? A pair of prehistoric runaways, buck and blaze.
00:40They must find their herd, or die.
00:47Now, the gathering storm of fire and stone falls from the sky,
00:51and a wall of searing heat threatens all in its path.
01:04In a forgotten land called North America, little Das' hunt begins.
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01:39Seventy-five million years ago, the Rocky Mountains are a chain of young volcanic peaks
01:47that cut through the face of North America like a great scar of stone.
01:55Deep in the Elkhorn Range of Montana, lunch is served from the rich volcanic soil.
02:08Trees and greens provide the Orodromeus with organic octane.
02:12In the fast and furious world of dinosaurs, these are the Roadrunners.
02:25While life is good in the upland community, the local residents carry on their own version
02:29of Neighborhood Watch.
02:36While the herd tanks up, one adult serves as a lookout.
02:43Quetzalcoatlus are the last of the flying reptiles.
02:52Quetzalcoatlus are the last of the flying reptiles.
02:59These animals, largest in the family of pterosaurs, are also the only survivors in a group driven
03:11to extinction by warm-blooded birds.
03:13But today, they rule the air.
03:20Measuring 21 feet, the wingspan of Quetzalcoatlus is as wide as a World War II fighter plane.
03:34Quetzalcoatlus is a notorious fleshy.
03:39But down on the deck, the herd is calm and collected.
03:43Quetzalcoatlus fancy fish over red meat every time.
03:48Today, the fleet heads for the inland sea, some 50 miles away, to harvest fish from the shallows.
03:58The show is over, but the lone sentry is stuck in alert mode.
04:05The herd is more concerned with second helpings than communal security.
04:15The picnic area they've chosen is exposed and flanked by a thick line of tree cover.
04:26If Orodromeists are roadrunners, Troodons are the coyotes.
04:43And yes, they're wily, too.
04:50When evolution passed out the stealth gene, the Troodons lucked out.
04:58By the time you see one, it's usually too late to run.
05:04Endowed with the largest brain on dinosaur planet, the Troodon nervous system is attached
05:10to a set of big, forward-looking eyes.
05:16But for all the stealth, they're not invisible.
05:22It's hidden so slowly until the drape will have.
05:31Help out the Voilà синего.
05:34We must be forced to
05:52The Auradromeus kick into overdrive. Zero to forty in about ten seconds.
05:59All the Troodons get to eat so far is a mouth full of dust.
06:05The herd scrambles, and so will the Troodons. But their scramble is just a little bit slower.
06:15There's no sense in breaking delicate toe bones on a reckless race.
06:20Better a loser now than a sore loser later.
06:41Ground underfoot comes to life.
06:50Jets of white-hot steam bring the hunt to a sudden end.
06:56The Troodons are the first victims of the dark force that rules a volcanic kingdom.
07:04Its heart is filled with a shallow sea of magma.
07:10As the molten rock makes contact with underground springs, harmless water blasts out from the earth as searing bursts of deadly vapor.
07:20Fifty miles away on the lowland plains, the continuity of life and death, predator and prey, is undisturbed.
07:30Adolescent myosaurus, like buck and blaze, will grow to the size of dumpties.
07:33Adolescent myosaurus, like buck and blaze, will grow to the size of dumpties.
07:38Playmates born in the same season, they become late-cretaceous, juvenile delinquents.
07:42Buck is a young male, the young male, and the young man, who's born in the same season.
07:52Adolescent myosaurus, like Buck and Blaze, will grow to the size of dump trucks.
08:02Playmates born in the same season, they become late Cretaceous, juvenile delinquents.
08:11Buck is a young male, Blaze an immature female.
08:18The game they've chosen is called Walk Away from the Herd and Let Everyone Know About It.
08:27By teen standards, it's already a roaring success.
08:48When you're this big, why not mix a little fun with foraging?
09:01Why follow the herd?
09:08Here's one good reason.
09:14He's a Daspletosaurus, a.k.a. Little Das.
09:24A juvenile himself, Little Das is here on a big job.
09:31Buck and Blaze have isolated themselves from the safety of the herd.
09:46Little Das's mission is to widen the gap.
09:49Little Das is only one member of a deadly triple play.
10:06Little Das, a' two older sisters now take up the chase.
10:28Running parallel to the chase, little Das will help his sisters keep young Buck and Blaze
10:57on a predetermined course.
11:02And now, the final player.
11:06It's the mother of the pack.
11:13Paralyzed by fear, Blaze delays their escape by one precious second, and Buck is left behind
11:21to pay the price.
11:27Until the 1970s, large carnivores like T-Rex were depicted as lumbering behemoths.
11:36With the emerging link between dinosaurs and birds, T-Rex was recast as a swift cunning killer
11:44that traveled in packs.
11:47It's even been suggested that they use teamwork to hunt.
11:50To test the speed idea, two scientists built a biomechanical computer model of T-Rex.
11:57To run 45 miles an hour, as some paleontologists suggest, T-Rex would have needed 80% of its muscle mass
12:06concentrated in its legs. Physically impossible.
12:09The researchers concluded that T-Rex move more like an elephant than a roadrunner, closer to 10 miles an hour.
12:18No problem. Slow as they were, their prey were probably even slower.
12:24What about hunting in packs?
12:30Some scientists argue that mass graveyards of dinosaur predators, found in places like Canada and Argentina,
12:36support the case for group living.
12:39But the burials only show they died at the same place.
12:43It doesn't mean they lived, let alone hunted together.
12:46Like some large carnivores today, Tyrannosaurs may have been solitary hunters.
12:52The jury is still out.
12:57Two young Myasaurus, Buck and Blaze, run straight into a kill zone.
13:03Only Blaze manages to escape the jaws of Little Das' mother.
13:22Little Das lives for the chase.
13:24But sometimes, a little thing called attention span...
13:30...gets lost in transit.
13:33A monkey wrench thrown into a well-oiled killing machine.
13:42And Little Das is the monkey in question.
13:56Buck and Blaze have learned a lesson the hard way.
14:00Especially Buck.
14:03Buck and Blaze.
14:09Both juveniles are safe for now.
14:11Courtesy of a young predator's boundless enthusiasm.
14:22Little Das has let his mother and sisters down.
14:24Tired and hungry, the family now faces a long and restless night.
14:32But he prefers to be like me to walk out and cry.
14:35What a beautiful person's day is being saved.
14:36And a best friend of a lot is CHAN indeed.
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14:42It's a beautiful group of Chanel.
14:44As a foraging species,
15:12Myosaurs are outstanding in their field.
15:16That's exactly where Daspletosaurs like to find them.
15:19Outstanding in a field.
15:22Unaware they're being sized up for another hit.
15:29Little Das' mother had no trouble tracking the herd through the night.
15:33Of all the predators, Daspletosaurs have the keenest sense of smell.
15:39Little Das can't wait to get rolling.
15:43This time, no mistakes.
15:48Young Buck, the wounded male, is a target of opportunity.
15:54Das is totally stoked for the chase.
15:57Sooner or later, Buck will collapse and the herd will leave him behind.
16:02As far as little Das is concerned, this hunt is as good as done.
16:12All we need to do is...
16:15Find Mom...
16:17...and the sisters.
16:22And the sisters.
16:24...and the sisters.
16:25Can't wait!
16:26We bird metres.
16:28The Doppler Station has found noaty...
16:30...to cow.
16:31No, we ain't loose!
16:33No, we sun age!
16:34No, no, we ain't...
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16:39It's bare our teammate.
16:40Hunting for your own family is a major pain.
17:00How could they run off like that?
17:06Das stumbles upon a family of another kind.
17:09Ineosaurs are vegetarians, with attitudes.
17:22The very sight of Little Das sends these two-ton browsers packing.
17:28Is this a power trip or what?
17:38Huge adults fleeing for their lives?
17:41Yes!
17:43But the herd is not really running from Das.
17:47The animals know that young Daspletosaurs serve as scouts for adult hunters.
17:53Little Das has managed to run off every head of edible prey in the lowlands.
18:06And talk about bad timing.
18:09Hidden nearby, the pack was just about to spring on the myosaurs.
18:19And talk about bad timing.
18:24Hidden nearby, the pack was just about to spring on the myosaurs.
18:32And it's not a happy reunion.
18:33The noxious breath of an angry giant billows from the Elkhorn Range.
18:45The noxious breath of an angry giant billows from the Elkhorn Range.
19:04The noxious breath of an angry giant billows from the Elkhorn Range.
19:08Beneath the surface, the tendrils of molten rock turn ground water into sulfurous steam.
19:13Sporadic bursts of searing vapor blast through the Earth's crust.
19:20But the creatures here are unable to break this new and disturbing code.
19:35The watering hole is a favorite for predators and prey alike.
19:45At daybreak, a herd of Orodromeus make a pit stop.
19:50For these high performance running machines, frequent hydration is a must.
20:05It's a trio of thirsty Troodons.
20:35Troodons rely on sharp vision and speed to capture their prey.
20:43Now, the vague but familiar scent of Orodromeus hangs in the air.
20:55But unlike little Das and the Daspletosaurs, the Troodon's sense of smell is not the greatest.
21:05Volcanic fumes leech up through the spring water.
21:26The bouquet comes straight from hell.
21:30It's a lethal mix of low temperature gases that include sulfur dioxide and flesh burning chlorine.
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22:19The Quetzalcoatlus return from a day's hunt, their bellies filled with fish from the Inland
22:40Sea. The Great Fleet goes where no Troodon has ever gone before, but would like to. The Jumbo
23:00Flyer's Glide Path is the final approach to a combination parking lot and nursery across
23:06the valley from the small volcano. Parking space here is limited, every square inch jealously
23:21guarded. For centuries, the high ledge has served as a nesting place for countless generations
23:30of Quetzalcoatlus. Sheer cliffs create a drop zone of 500 feet. Takeoffs and landings are
23:53a breeze, and youngsters are safe from Troodons.
24:23Still, no creature is safe from the fuming volcano, the new apex predator of the Elkhorn Range.
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25:51The smaller volcano dies, its subterranean pool of magma drained by a larger and more voracious peak.
26:05Gorging on the molten rock and lethal gas of its neighbor, is a geothermal monster, the greatest volcano ever to strike the Western Hemisphere.
26:15Soon, even the creatures of the lowlands, some fifty miles away, will feel its heat.
26:35Brought together by the single-handed attack of little Das, the Aeneosaurs and the Myosaurs become fellow travelers.
26:45Gah!
26:49Crippled and vulnerable, Buck is on the watch.
26:58Gah!
27:00Gah!
27:02Gah!
27:04Gah!
27:06Gah!
27:08Gah!
27:11Gah!
27:12The wound on his hind leg has turned septic and the herd will soon pass him by.
27:30Just keeping pace with the lumbering aeneosaurs is a challenge.
27:38Blaze remains at his side.
27:43There's nothing sentimental about her attachment to Buck.
27:46It's just the instinct to bond with her own peers.
28:08Little Das has run a wide circle around the herd.
28:31The young predator has achieved the element of surprise, but follow through is crucial.
28:47Scorned by his family, Little Das' future as a member of the pack is now at stake.
28:54Like many dinosaurs, Aeneosaurus is named for a trademark feature, its forward-curving horn.
29:04The same is true for Triceratops, three-horned face.
29:08Pachyrhinosaurus, thick-nosed lizard.
29:11And Centrosaurus, sharp-pointed lizard.
29:15So what was all this strange headgear used for?
29:19Defense against predators, or so paleontologists once thought.
29:24Yet that hypothesis is full of holes.
29:27First, Aeneosaurus and its kin had only rudimentary horns and frill as youngsters.
29:34The very time they were most vulnerable.
29:37Second, each species of horned dinosaur has a unique set-up of horns and frills.
29:42If their main purpose was defense, surely evolution would have standardized the design.
29:48Third, many of these make for poor defense.
29:52The nose horn of Aeneosaurus hooks forward and down.
29:55And in some places, the frill is no thicker than a few millimeters.
30:00Our best evidence for understanding this bizarre headgear comes from living animals,
30:05with similarly odd features.
30:08We identify dinosaurs by their strange features, and the dinosaurs likely did as well.
30:15Thanks to its distinct horns and frill, an Aeneosaurus would never be mistaken for one of its horned cousins.
30:22Virtually all of these traits are used first and foremost to identify members of the same species,
30:28and to compete for mates.
30:30Like so much of life, it all comes down to sex.
30:37When it comes to a kill, predators fail nine times out of ten.
30:42Out on the lowlands, little Das gets a second chance to redeem himself.
30:46And he's not about to blow it.
30:49His target is Buck, the wounded Myasaur.
31:07Everyone else is just in the way.
31:10When Blaze breaks past the herd, she runs straight into the A-Team, waiting to hit Buck.
31:25Getting a clean shot at their prey won't be easy.
31:29Little Das has delivered an Aeneosaurus sandwich, and no one's willing to take the first bite.
31:44Little Das stays focused.
32:00Buck makes a run for it, but little Das stays focused.
32:04The Aeneosaurus blockade has given Buck a small leap.
32:21The chase has taken its toll on the young Myasaur.
32:26And now, his young nemesis, little Das, has locked on his new position.
32:45Predator and prey resume their roles.
32:47In this drama, there is no good or bad.
32:50But now, a plot twist could turn this prehistoric pageant into a tragedy.
32:56The Great Mountain is possessed by a seething ocean of magma and dissolved gas.
33:15Titanic pressures begin to test the mountain walls from within.
33:20The creatures of the Elkhorn Range now live beneath a time bomb filled with melted rock.
33:26Buck suffers from dehydration and pain, but he's no quitter.
33:28Buck suffers from dehydration and pain, but he's no quitter.
33:33His instinct to rejoin the herd keeps the young Myasaur on his feet.
33:39Blaze has moved further and further away from her wounded playmate.
33:40Blaze has moved further and further away from her wounded playmate.
33:46The prey is more dead than alive.
33:47The prey is more dead than alive.
33:53The prey is more dead than alive.
33:54The prey is more dead than alive.
33:55The prey is more dead than alive.
34:00The prey is more dead than alive.
34:07The prey is more dead than alive.
34:13The prey is more dead than alive.
34:14The prey is more dead than alive.
34:15The prey is more dead than alive.
34:16The prey is more dead than alive.
34:17The prey is more dead than alive.
34:18The prey is more dead than alive.
34:19The prey is more dead than alive.
34:20The prey is more dead than alive.
34:21The prey is more dead than alive.
34:22The prey is more dead than alive.
34:23The prey is more dead than alive.
34:24The prey is more dead than alive.
34:25The prey is more dead than alive.
34:26The prey is more dead than alive.
34:27The prey is more dead than alive.
34:28The prey is more dead than alive.
34:29The Daspletosaurs have waited it out, and now the time feels right to close in.
34:59A small Quetzalcoatlus reeks from toxic fumes.
35:22It's time to cut to the chase.
35:43Fifteen thousand square miles of sky are consumed by a monstrous veil of ash.
35:52Created by the release of gas from molten rock, the cloud is alive with pin-sized fragments of volcanic glass.
36:01It's time to close the gap on Buck.
36:12Visibility is falling by the second.
36:16The pack must now rely on their ears.
36:29And so must Buck.
36:40The return calls mean only one thing.
36:47Buck must reach the herd or die.
36:53Little Das and his family navigate a fog of volcanic ash in search of their prey.
37:00Buck must find his herd or die.
37:04The blanket of ash has begun to lift.
37:29Half delirious from shock, Buck makes for the herd.
37:41Das and his family, weary from the long trek, suddenly face a major investment of predatory energy.
37:56This is a predatory energy.
37:57This is a predatory energy.
38:03That's a predatory energy.
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38:41Rivers of lava pushed up from the magma chamber now bleed from the side vents of the mountain.
38:48Explosions rip from the cone, sending a hail of marble-sized debris miles into the sky.
39:07These air-filled volcanic fragments are called cinders.
39:15And the creatures of the highlands are the first to feel their sting.
39:43What we can call it!
39:46What do you think?
39:48Oh, my God.
40:18A new pulse from the Cinder Cone launches a bombardment of boulder-sized lava fragments and a barrage of lava bombs.
40:48The hunting prowess of the Troodon is humbled by the all-consuming wrath of an angry Earth.
41:12Weakened by the actions of magma and acidic gas, the entire east face of the mountain collapses in the biggest eruption in the Western Hemisphere.
41:39A great wave of superheated ash, rock, and gas roars across the uplands.
41:53A pyroplastic flow. Temperatures within its mass exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
41:58Some 50 miles away, the lowland dinosaurs process the oncoming flow as a threat.
42:15A pyroplastic flow.
42:29A pyroplastic flow.
42:30Let's go.
43:00At the speed of sound, a wall of burning debris is about to erase the line between predator and prey.
43:30The ash plume from the Elkhorn disaster extends 300 miles from Montana to the Inland Sea of North America.
44:007 million years later, few signs of the massive eruption remain.
44:30The Myasaura has evolved into a new species known as Edmontosaurus.
44:38Adults measure 40 feet, double the length of their ancestors.
44:48Evolution has made some alterations, but the restless nature of buck and blaze lives on in the herd's juveniles.
45:00This Pleatosaurus has evolved into Tyrannosaurus Rex.
45:07A killer that can rip away 500 pounds of flesh with a single bite.
45:12Of course, they have to catch something first.
45:15A drama is primal and sharp as the prehistoric sky continues on the lowlands of Montana.
45:34The players are new and a little wet behind the ears.
45:47And sometimes, they stumble and make some pretty big mistakes.
45:53But I tell ya, the plot is fantastic.
45:57In a remote corner of northwestern Montana, scientists unearth a baffling mystery.
46:19The charred bones of dinosaurs.
46:23Based on the undisturbed state of the bones, it was concluded that the animals died on the spot.
46:29But what killed them?
46:31The investigation that followed was a classic case of dinosaur detective work.
46:36The bones were found among more than 200 petrified trees,
46:39all buried under as much as six feet of cinder and ash.
46:45In turn, the trees lay within a field of ash covering 9,600 square miles.
46:51One of the largest fields of volcanic debris in the world.
46:56Sometime in the late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago,
47:01the forest was destroyed by a powerful volcanic eruption.
47:04The trees were leveled by the sheer force of the blast,
47:09then buried under the fallout of ash, along with the dinosaurs.
47:14We witnessed the same kind of devastation in 1980, when Mount St. Helens erupted.
47:25Yet the Elkhorn eruption ranks as one of the most powerful ever recorded.
47:29By comparison, Mount St. Helens was a mere firecracker.
47:59The Elkhorn eruption meets the Tambor원's
48:04The Elkhorn eruption at the afro großot,
48:06the Kyle Kierkevist, where was its spectacular nature in the early 2000s.
48:09The Elkhorn eruption in the early 2000s.
48:12The Elkhorn eruptionagar.
48:14The Elkhorn eruption in the early 2000s.
48:18The Elkhorn eruption's so jimpsed and had discovered the fields of the a-n rim.
48:21The Elkhorn eruption at the time of the Earth.
48:24The Elkhorn eruption.
48:25The Elkhorn eruption in the early 2000s.
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