Dinosaurs: On The Trail Of Prehistory (Palaeontology Documentary) | Spark

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's a lost world now extinct long gone on the surface blown away by The Tempest so tired but there are some remains for over a hundred and forty million years they lay hidden deep in the sandstone these scientists are about to solve the mystery it makes it tangible the mists of time are dispelled for a moment and you really feel you missed something special here 140 million years ago first off 140 million years there's a stretch of time that completely transcends human imagination but we intend to do all we can to find out what it was that made this place so attractive for predatory dinosaurs investees not 50 who's always with his own ass and seemed committed an ordinary common or garden quarry in North Germany here scientists have found hundreds of tracks left by various dinosaurs like detectives they're using all their expertise to piece together a gigantic puzzle so far they don't even know all the different kinds of dinosaurs that once walked here but so many prints in one place is sensational the area with the petrified tracks must once have been swampy terrain crossed by a huge variety of animals the tracks of small predator dinosaurs called Troodon tits are the most sensational find some of the tracks are 10 to 12 paces long the scientists theories are at best vague their dream is to paint as realistic a picture as possible of the animal to bring it back to life as it were maybe the true taunted looked like this but there's no way of being certain each new find in the urban keyer can quarry near Hannover causes a stir even the best experts know next to nothing about true Tontons if the scientists managed to fill in the blanks they'll become celebrities certainly it's a it's a very very special sight with regard to the scale you know I'll have to take a look and let you know yeah this is one of the interesting things about the Obermann locality that you seem to have a high percentage of the the two-toed tracks in China we thought we were very lucky to find only only a few 10 or 15 tracks in total at several localities so again this is a surprise a hundred and forty million years ago in the Lower Cretaceous period the world was a very different place two continents had formed Gondwana and Laurasia they drifted further and further apart and the primeval thethethe between them expanded accordingly in the region of what is today the North Sea the climate was humid and tropical the North Saxon basin was covered by an inland sea to the west of Hannover where urban kirkin is today there was a lagoon landscape with small sandy islands [Music] 140 million years ago things may have looked something like this inland seas surrounded by tropical forests there is ample geological evidence to suggest this is how it was the tracks on the quarry indicate the animals inhabiting this landscape included large herbivores the Iguanodon is well known they were about 25 feet long and when fully upright well anything up to ten feet tall another inhabitant the scientists have identified as the predator the Allosaurus they have a fairly accurate idea of what the Allosaurus and the iguanodons looked like but the Raptor track still posed a number of riddles Annetta Richter and Torsten thundered Luba from the Hanover State Museum collecting clues they painstakingly study every track the petrified footprints the only evidence the researchers have okay great okay so this is rhomin - those are the fourth and fifth these marks are the decisive pointer to the behavior of the animals that is what makes them so valuable it's still hard to say how many different tracks there are we bet against each other and the estimates differ widely and we've been at it for quite some time now of course taxpayers might ask whether it's worth it how many new facts are we actually discovering but we do find out a lot particularly from the foot marks where is the impression deeper how did the animal actually move we get plenty of Palio biological data to work on up to 25 features can be determined from one track alone the depth of the footprints the breadth the angle of the toes the statistics help the scientists reconstruct the movements of the animals as accurately as possible some tracks actually run parallel from this the scientists conclude that the Raptors cooperated and hunted in pairs the more we dig up the more likely we are to strike lucky and come across one that stumbles and fell over or we may find traces of a fight or some other unusual event as long and interesting we've only just Perseid the album's Amiata the more data we have the better we can ultimately verify the various theories that exist the speed size and weight of the animals of things the experts will only be able to determine after highly complex analysis of the tracks [Music] from Monday to Friday there's the routine work of extracting sandstone from the quarry at urban Kiran the scientists only have the weekends otherwise they'd interfere with normal operations and they must keep on the right side of owner Klaus Custer if they don't they can say goodbye to their excavations the Costa family has owned the quarry for generations urban KIAC and sandstone is much sought after it adorns famous churches and castles in Germany including Cologne Cathedral the victory column in Berlin and further afield emilian berg castle in copenhagen isolated dinosaur remains have been found in the quarry before but the new commotion about prehistoric lizards seriously interferes with work patterns in Custer's quarry oh yes today now we'll see the back end rear up [Music] or Dada and then over there you can see the three toes very clearly we could cover it up again put it all through the shredder so that would really make me a villain but then at least it would all be over then you'd have gravel but no dinosaur fees either that or auction it off on eBay see which museums would pay the most Layton to see it and the last alternative is to preserve it we'll just have to see won't we IMG class Custer wants a fence put around the site so that no trespassers can get onto his property he warns the scientists that otherwise he'll destroy the traces as soon as work in the quarry is over Annetta Richter and her team of voluntary helpers are on site these honorary archaeologists spend all their weekends here come rain or shine the scavengers are back and it's true we really do get in the way and we know it present arrangements with Klaus Costa enables us to come here to dig on weekends with a small we told them now listen this is a very sensitive and unusual situation investing a few Sundays here doing a trial excavation [Music] the volunteers are pressed for time afraid that the owner might stop the digging they try to secure and chart every trace as quickly as possible and there's another snack some footprints have blurred outlines and cannot be attributed to any given animal other animals have walked over them destroying the original tracks and hunter ain't the depth of the impressions in tracks close to one another and tell us something about the relative weights of the animals that left the traces that kind of information cannot be gleaned from the skeletons alleged a kink and a skeleton to tell us what they were able to do in terms of their specific physiology but the tracks tell us exactly what they actually did rusty guitar have been well what makes the dinosaur track so particularly interesting to me that that is the whole idea of that it's fossilized behavior you can really match up you have the skeletons you know what they look like and then certainly these these dead animals really come back to life they start walking [Music] Bonz alone say nothing about the motions and behavior of the prehistoric lizards but Annette Arista is fully aware that tracks without fossils present just as incomplete a picture she turns to the Natural History Museum in Berlin looking for a little help from her friends paleontologist Oliver things has been excavating in China for years recently a particularly large number of skeletons were found there in the basement of the dinosaur collection lie the products of excavations dating back a century and more well that's been dean the remarkable features here remind me of the finds we made on site in China Kamata we found a thigh bone too but very much bigger than this one probably about six feet long and he puts my meter [Music] Oliver bings has recorded his excavations in Outer Mongolia on video he tells a net erector about the extreme conditions in the dust here you can see the whole excavation team busily working away in the desert wants to hear more about all of his dinosaur research in China the excavations lasted over three months but the paleontologists had to leave their finds behind because of the strict Chinese export regulations in the course of their excavations along the Silk Road oliver wings and his assistants think it likely that they found a sauropod now the debate you see they all work the same shift so let's see if we can find something else the big herbivores can be anything up to 35 meters long animals like the North German Raptors have not yet been found in this region and it Arista is impressed but she hasn't really got any further given the numerous Raptor finds in other parts of China all of our encourages her to go out there herself here you can immediately see what it is yeah are you sure can that's a nice little tooth it still has a serrated edge look that's right a proper serrated edge like a steak knife this was a predator diner in all probability of an Allosaurus or something very close of course we're looking for truant on dead teeth not Alice orhid fangs had kind of the Chinese Raptor finds a few years back involved a number of pioneering revelations about the dinosaurs the skeletons are incredibly bird-like in the sense that they have wishbones they have a bony breastplates they have all these attributes that we see in modern birds that combined with the specimens that we found in northeastern China which we can really show that these animals were feathered and when I say feathered not just feathered with a downy sort of covering but feathered with the same sorts of feathers you would see in a modern bird it's a crucial insight if the Obon kickin Raptors were relatives of the Chinese finds they were probably also feathered the feet are the features most likely to prove whether they're related the north german treuhand its are particularly remarkable for their toes the second of which was a razor sharp sickle claw that served as a weapon in China in China we hope that when we see these wonderful fossil remnants of the feathered dinosaurs we'll be able to get a very accurate idea of what our root on dates actually looked like if the claws of the Chinese Raptors and those from urban Kia can match it would be proof positive that the North German dinosaurs were also feathered that means we're going to have to reconstruct their entire habitat they'd have been small and probably very colorful bird like animals dinah birds as the Americans call them they would have ruled the roost here and at present the best place to find out is in China [Music] so an inter achter and Torsten van der Lubbe traveled to Beijing in recent years China has become a mecca for paleontologists they want a first-hand view of the spectacular finds made by their Chinese colleague that way they're confident they can establish precisely the outward appearance of their predators paleontologist Jing Xiu is one of the world's leading experts on these bird-like dinosaurs at the Chinese Academy of Sciences he studies their plumage and their physiology when we discovered the first feather in oh this is great species definitely very very beautiful spaceman so probably this will be my most important discovery in my career I know that next year I found another new species and even more important I said oh maybe this is over this is my father but at under then the next year I have melih new discoveries in the preparation room that the Institute jinju's shows his visitors one of his most famous finds a petrified baby true taunted it comes astonishingly close to the idea the scientists have of the North German Raptor this is a Mane on spacemen take look we already know yes May long means peacefully sleeping dragon and does indeed have a sickle claw it is well hidden but it means that the little predator is a member of the true taunted species just like the animals from urban Qian the baby animal displays a sleeping posture typical of birds another indication that the Raptors were very similar indeed to present-day birds the Addison who notes a wonderfully preserved fossil of a not quite adult true taunted and in the sleeping position of that the poor little fellow was surprised in his sleep you see now we know without doubt that it definitely was true Tom dudes that left those tracks back home for Europe this is in itself a significant find because there are hardly any true taunted remains in Europe at all but may Long's European relatives would have been quite a bit larger last decade witnessed significant advances in our understanding of origin of birds so now we can tell how dinosaur evolved into a pers we can tell like when first feather a period and I will fly to ordinate [Music] evolution from dinosaur to bird can be minutely observed at the Qian you Natural History Museum south of Beijing here hundreds of petrified fossil imprints are exhibited their physiology skeletons claws and even plumage are well preserved some of the ancestors of our present-day Birds even had teeth there are some typical flight feathers and a large rigid feathers that we believe it function in flight you know also there are feathers like more downy like we call darling like feathers probably insulation may be out of other functions so you see a dance already have different types of feather on their body little spit and provide a very strong hand and suggest feathery the leg of favorite food is a primitive conditioner for this look for the group of at least for the pair avian [Music] it's big life it makes it all so much more tangible more colorful more varied there's more life to it now than there was before we've been dramatically confronted with the indications we were looking for it's as good as you get it's precisely the confirmation we were hoping for we got it right here jumped up and hit us in the eye for distinguished narrative [Music] speculation has become certainty the North German Raptors really were feathered and that's not all the scientists have found out from the remnants and the fossils they have reconstructed the size of the Raptors there are up to nine feet long and about four foot six in height their weight between 60 and 80 pounds and there were skillful predators they probably communicated vocally their cries may have resembled the coin of ravens like birds the Raptors large eyes gave them three-dimensional vision that was probably a major asset for hunting person only one thing distinguished them from present-day birds they couldn't fly [Music] [Music] but how can the scientists reconstruct the motions and the speed of the Raptors to validate their new insights they fall back on an old trick widely used in paleobiology they compare the predatory dinosaurs with a similar animal that still exists today the emu right here's the enclosure okay thanks now let's take a closer look what's really smooth enough there's still a few little bumps in it have to roll around a bit first right yuck right to a big fat turd we want the emus from Hannover Zoo to move along this strip of sand leave their footprints and then we can see the similarities command + Z inverse Z and zero English Oz like the Raptors emus can't fly so here experimenta and these parents like this with living creatures gets us closest to the most probable solution detective work try and get as near as you can to what actually happened allegations of in a quality of the soil has a decisive impact on the tracks the birds leave wet sand is the only medium that gives a really precise footprint come on you can do it don't pussyfoot around wasn't curly he's the big favorite it was the other one you have to give him a name as well the results are quite respectable no it's really good yeah yeah really good dry sand the prince is much broader in wet sand it's a lot clearer and better define if the bird is moving quickly you see more of the claws than of the toes themselves you get different imprints with animals crossing different substrates as at different speeds and then you realize that when you're looking at fossil dinosaur footprints you really always need more than five or six if you really want to draw conclusions from a set of tracks the emu prints are indeed similar to those of the Raptors from their investigations the scientists have calculated that the dinosaurs can move at anything up to 30 miles an hour like emus but there are obvious differences as well that's it what we see here is that emus feet really are quite fleshy there's plenty of tissue on the undersides of the feet the Dinos feet were probably either less meaty or we've been under estimating just how agile those animals really were Asians we've collected the emus help us to understand better how those dino tracks turned out the way they did it helps to make our understanding that even for even more precise motion studies they use a special camera that takes several hundred pictures per second this will help to create a three-dimensional view of the Raptors then there is data from the EMU experiment and the analysis of the petrified tracks gradually a graphic picture emerges of the way the Raptors moved oh those high-speed shots you brought us give us a really good idea of the way the toes come together seen some calm I've added that fear animation they only spread out again when the foot hits the ground giving the animal support and stopping it from falling over it but there's one essential difference in motion the Raptors raised their second toe the razor sharp sickle claw to stop the dangerous weapon from getting blunted it was more or less parallel to this middle toe when it raised its foot the claw really went back quite some way the mobility potential was extreme this deadly weapon got lost in the course of evolution in the EMU it's back on the ground again it makes a lot of sense there are all kinds of forces centered on it whether he was attacking very small or very big animals you could always sink the poor into the prey these animals are typifies by having very very large claws on that they're set on the second toe of their feet and there's been a lot of argument in the scientific literature about whether or not these claws were held erect from the animal walk or whether that they were just you know went down and went into the sediment so that the more of these tracks we find like the ones in Korea as well as these really showed us that when the the animals were walking is that they held the big raptorial claw up off of the ground with the help of 3d animations they want to get an idea of the entire habitat available to the citizens of Oban kickin in the lower cretaceous period among them the iguanodons of designer frank Sen holds is working on here you see what we call the texture the body surface the skin the inside of the tongue here and this whole construction is then mounted onto the animal as it were and once you put the texture onto the object you can put the whole thing onto a turntable and look at it from all sides so of course it would be great if the scientific background could tell us how close we are to what we're after in fact we have something of a kind with us but I'd say straight away that by and large it really is pretty accurately well that's very encouraging no it's a very good start indeed the legs aren't quite as they should be they're too far apart but four front ones in the rear ones they don't square with the tracks that we've been finding it's the position of the feeds distances yeah I wasn't sure let's see what we can do more like this yes yes much better lots of bunny let's mosey and at the end you have a complete film you see a complete take or shot as we say yeah this is how it looks you can tell from the final result that there are still some fuzzy agents things that real cameras do we have to imitate artificially as it were come with us my own amusing view quasi cool sleek now and fits a wonderful thing oh absolutely to be able to bring things back from the dead it's really satisfying it's not something you could have predicted in my childhood back in the 70s of course I hope it makes my scientific colleagues just as happy to see their finds come alive as it were I think it must surely be very inspiring it if I try and put myself in their place I just imagine scrambling around in some quarry for years with a hammer up to your knees and dust and dirt and then suddenly the diners are there on the screen moving through the landscape that used to be here all that time ago for them it must surely be a personal triumph one big celebration and for me too [Music] [Music] once the Raptors armed with a deadly sickle claws had discovered their prey the cumbersome in goanna Don's had little chance of escape [Music] [Music] [Music] for all predators both present day and prehistoric an open water hole is the perfect spot for an attack [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] dear mr. man you wouldn't want to meet them in the dark the hoard of the daylight for that matter we humans are simply not strong and agile if they can run faster than we can and jump higher apart from our intellectual capacities they were superior to us in every way and it would have been very bad for your health to come across more than one of them Phoebe is in mirror and hunts of picking the quarry owner approaches the scientists are planning an open date and meta Richter expects lots of diner fans good advertising for her work but now she will need some skillful psychology to get Klaus Costa on her side right before we shake hands or anything here's some Dino grub for us all there aren't any cherries yet in here yes and that but on their own take some more [Music] as they check out the locality and at a Richter once again has to fight to get klaus custer to continue tolerating the archeological digs in the quarry for a brief moment their joint dislike of unwanted guests even make some unexpected allies this is our favourite job here spending hours telling those onlookers that they're not wanted as soon as they hear there's something to do with dinosaurs going on here they grab their kids and hit the road yes it was you I meant no need to run away there's a sign down there saying that trespassing isn't allowed right yes I know the place is crawling with the literate that can't read sorry illiterate sirs what I said but you can't go any further you you can't get out this way I've never been here before but my wife knows her way around here what's in these it doesn't make any difference you can't climb up the wall can she well just go back let alone now that's a good idea it's always the same it's always the same tricks always the same excuses a certain extent I sympathise with them all these people swarming over his quarry to think that some meat belongs to them we're tax payers sure we can walk around here sure it belongs to us they say but these people have no feeling for the fact that the stone is a product expensive product that's expensive to get out of the ground so there's bound to be some bad feeling I'd be amazing if they weren't a change of perspective the mini helicopter with a camera inside provides an attractor and Torsten van der Lubbe with an aerial view of the quarry they hope that it may show up something like a prevailing direction in which the tracks are pointing in the last few years techniques like this have brought about major progress in paleontology about a century ago one could have looked at a track and tried to match it with the static structure of a dinosaur foot and that was about as far as you could go or you could classify tracks into different types and gives them names but as far as biological and biomechanical interpretation goes a lot of things are possible now that weren't then and I think that's why tracks are becoming more important as a source of evidence the aerial views are designed to help the scientists analyze the tracks more systematically but the outcome is sobering there's little to be discerned from the maze of tracks the scientists still don't know how many dinosaurs pass this way altogether anything the view from above makes the confusion bigger you can see all the Turing's and throwings of all these animals even more clearly but there's no prevalent direction or if there is we can't make it out and the view from above reduces the area a whole lot as well if you have to dig it up it's really quite a large area involves a lot of work seeing it from above puts it in a different perspective you suddenly realized that the habitat of all these animals and the prehistoric lagoon was really quite small [Music] back to the Cretaceous the tracers have given the scientists new insights on the behavior of the herbivores [Music] one theory is that in their quest for food the big iguana Don's cupboard long distances as they roamed the islands in and around Obon Kirin sometimes referred to as the cows of the Cretaceous they probably made their way along the tropical shores [Music] obviously the moist sand and the warm climate of the lagoon scape in the lower Saxon basin provided ideal conditions for the preservation of footprints a few hundred miles further north on what is today the North German coast not exactly tropical but still a good place for prehistoric traces with its mud flats sandy beaches and dunes a fair approximation of all of India and the way it was 140 million years ago Annetta richter wants to find out more precisely what the ideal medium for dinosaur traces needs to look like accompanied by 3d designer Frank sent Holtz her travels have taken her to the North Sea island of languge well I like it like a flamingo later I have to translate all these traces into a digital idiom on the computer so before hand I need to know things like what the place looked like at the time how heavy a dinosaur was how deep the footprints go what material there preserved in that kind of thing then so it's very important for me to be here and have it all explained to me in scientific terms just we walk across there in bare feet and then in shoes to see what tracks we leave really rolling the foot from heel to toe right and then we'll have a proper look at the place pretty good coming here that's excellent an ideal footprint everything you need for a proper diagnosis this sediment here is really good stuff it has these very very thin carpet of alga diatoms as they're called they stabilize the whole thing it's almost like a pastor cast when I imagined it and compared with the prints in the quarry 150 million years ago that's incredible more or less but it's not quite so clear cut in the last resort it's just a little fuzzier still just supposes footprint where really to be preserved here what happens next to preserve it more or less for an eternity well if the tides don't get to it straight away if the next flood doesn't come up that far or if the next one after that then it's easy to imagine how it gradually gets more solid and dries out and if the next layer of sand covers it and preserves it then it's on its way that's how we imagine it if I'm lucky my footprint might be found in 150 million years or we're supposing that there are still people around to find it yes except that in six hours the next slot is gonna come up and wash it away but otherwise yes since the Cretaceous period things have changed quite appreciably notably the vegetation now this is a classic mini dude and what do we have on it grass grass grass grass grass grass indeed and all kinds of tiny flowers of course that's not the way it was back then I mean I can't use all this pretty grass no no absolutely not but I need plants and some kind or other to make sense of the scene you know so what do I do what can I use instead well if we really try and imagine how it was 140 million years ago it would have been full of vegetation grasses and ferns all over the place slow lots of trees thick forests growing right down to the water's edge [Music] there the sand islands in the Cretaceous period were much as they are today the dinosaurs will probably have left their traces in areas covered by standing water [Music] [Music] on the beach the next flood would have washed away their traces immediately so something must have ensured that the dinosaur tracks were preserved for all eternity before the wind and weather could blot them out [Music] probably the prints were half dry or solidified when a sandstorm covered them they remain preserved and in the subsequent millions of years the cumulative weight of new deposits gradually press them into stone back in the quarry it's the morning of open day and owner Klaus Costa is in one of his moods and everyone's worried what's that noise it must be him the scientists will be presenting their finds Cousteau wants publicity for his stone the media only mentioned the dinosaurs so the quarry owner threatens to call the whole thing off it would be a good thing let's just do it one more time there's a touch of the exclusive about it and it's all over okay all this constant wheedling just one more time well sure but instead of just sticking to our guns and saying no more visitors up there they can look down from the top and you lot can see how far you get down here yes but then II can't exhibit his little true tond it's go top day depends on those little Troodon dudes girl top day depends on are selling stone if we don't sell stone don't get any customers up here then it's the end of the Dino tract episode class coaster is relented once again open day can take place as planned the whole thing will only work if we will pay attention and keep in touch it was a good thing you told me that Vance otherwise I'd have had a heart attack on the spot this way I had 10 minutes to get my face in shape he's never been one to mince his words but I can understand kind of rusty [Music] the Raptors living here 140 million years ago laid eggs and hatched them in nests while one part of the herd was out hunting others kept guard over the baby animals and protected them from predators dragonflies and other prey were probably a welcomed snack between meals the Quarian oven cocoon is filling up nicely and at our rector and her volunteers can hardly keep up with the demand for guided tours [Music] Klauss Costa keeps a wary eye on the proceedings but at least his bulldozers are almost as much of a crowd for as the dinosaur tracks [Music] the animals roamed this area in much the same way as an ostrich I can't imitate them my spinal column or at least the top part of it isn't long enough for me to be able to nod my head like that the tracks are all we have to tell us anything about the behavior of these animals the bones say nothing about behavior but from the tracks you can tell what they actually got up to dinosaurs to me are the real mythical beasts you know as children we grew up learning about the dragons and the fairytale animals well dinosaurs to me are there are the real animals that once lived right here and what's exciting they lived right where we all live [Music] maybe the Raptors also lay in wait for the iguanodons at the edge of this waterfall but they were likely to have been poor swimmers so the herbivores probably didn't need to fear underwater attack I think a lot of people around the world particularly those who study tracks but also those who study behavior and those who are interested intro a daunted and their relatives will find this site interesting so I think it will get a lot of international attention it's a site that that shows hundreds and perhaps even thousands once a site gets expanded of dinosaur footprints that were made millions and millions of years ago it's similar in some ways to sites that I've worked on other sites that I've seen but it has some very very unique very very special things about I'm very much looking forward to visiting it after months of efforts a solution to the financing problem that the dinosaur tracks has been found the European Union and the state of Lower Saxony have approved funding an observation platform is to be put up for the dinosaur fans thus complying with a quarry owners most important requirement above all the scientists can carry on with their research undisturbed lots of tracks have yet to be evaluated and new ones are constantly being unearthed Klaus Costa visits the scientists in their part of the quarry rarely have the relations being so cordial they're just looking to see what's on top of it if you look here you'll see that there are proper little reefs over the place even where it says that's all in your section we've given that up so no hard feelings ok it's fine with me fine with you sure and it's a tricksters research work has involved a great deal of political negotiation in the wings without her agreement with a quarry owner and the funding from the politicians the sensational dinosaur tracks a Tobin Kieran would long ago have been consigned to the dustbin of history the next big plan is to organize an international symposium on the sites and invite prominent experts to participate the clues in the sand stone of urban Kea can have yielded up many of their secrets the predators hunted in groups had plumage and hence a major resemblance to present-day birds but they were sad teeth and the Raptors couldn't fly either much as they might have liked to the only rival they needed to fear was the 40-foot Allosaurus [Music] analysis of the tracks are shown that they sometimes ran parallel to each other possibly when two of them had both cited the same potential prey but maybe they also have their eye on someone else's prey as in the case of the Allosaurus here when they were in motion the second toe sickle claw was kept off the ground it was only used to attack prey so this is what things may have looked like 140 million years ago in Auburn Keoghan in the North German lowlands we don't even know how far these tracks extend hope that in the course of the coming years this place will gradually turn into a site for a research center dinosaur all happy all the participants I've talked to so far a completely satisfied and we hope to spend quite a few more years here working together productively and of course discovering what other treasures lie hidden here the finds in urban Kirkham could soon transform North Germany into an Eldorado for dinosaur experts particularly if in the next few years the scientists working here find more sensational evidence of prehistoric life [Music] [Music]

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Id: Eg4huowgMFQ

Length: 51min 57sec (3117 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 12 2018