David Attenborough, Lost World: Dinosaurs | BBC Documentary

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Who doesn't love Dinosaurs..Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives is a four-part BBC documentary series concerning the discovery of fossils. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, produced by Mike Salisbury, and was originally broadcast in April 1989.

It was made in between the second and third instalments of Attenborough's "Life" series: The Living Planet and The Trials of Life, respectively.

The study of rocks and their ancient secrets was something of a boyhood passion for David Attenborough. In these programmes, his enthusiasm for the subject is undiminished. With the help of expert palaeontologists, fossil hunters and (for the time) modern animation techniques, Attenborough attempts to show how life evolved in Earth's distant past. To do so, he travels the globe to visit the world's most famous fossil sites.

Could a pterodactyl as large as a light aircraft have flown? Did millipedes once grow to six feet long? How did insects become preserved in amber for over 50 million years?

All these questions and more are answered through the study of fossils. In his journeys to the most famous fossil sites in the world, David Attenborough discovers a pre-historic world teeming with life and full of enticing clues as to how life evolved.

They reveal how dinosaurs hunted, lived in groups and cared for their young. And they offer glimpses of the most bizarre creatures that ever lived, such as tiny horses and an animal that is half bird and half reptile.

With the help of expert palaeontologists, fossil enthusiasts from around the world and sophisticated modeling. Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives breathes life into Earth's distant past.

Sir David Attenborough visits several museums of natural history. With the aid of dinosaur skeletons, he demonstrates how they existed in real life, and speculates about the reasons for their sudden demise.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Meanwhile, in the YouTube comments there are OF COURSE the Morans showing they refuse to evolve.

[longship]

2. The question is: Who doesn't love David Attenborough?

He is the eminent broadcaster on nature. He only recently retired after being a prominent icon for the natural world since the 1950's.

I love David Attenborough. He has been a fierce advocate, educator for all things natural.

Very happy to R&K.

[delrem]

3. Thank you!

Attenborough speaks to my sense of wonder, of joy that I'm living in this universe.

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4. Marked for later.