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Prehistoric.Planet.S01E03
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Surely, one of the most remarkable animals that have ever existed,
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and certainly one of the most famous, is a dinosaur.
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Tyrannosaurus rex.
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An animal to spark the imagination for all of us.
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What kind of an animal was it?
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What did it look like? How did it live?
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Now, scientific research has answered such questions,
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and not just about T. rex, but the other species that lived alongside it.
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And the latest imaging technology enables us to bring them all to life.
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Planet Earth 66 million years ago.
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The skies are filled with flying giants.
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In the seas, monstrous reptiles patrol the depths.
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And on land, dinosaurs of every kind.
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All facing the struggle to survive.
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We now know so much about a world that was ruled by the dinosaurs.
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This is their story.
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Is their story.
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For millions of years, the lands of planet Earth have been carved by
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water.
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And the rivers that flow here are still shaping these great
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waves.
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canyons.
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And the rivers that flow here are still shaping these great canyons.
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Such places are the home of flying reptiles.
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Pterosaurs.
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Pterosaurs.
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Pterosaurs.
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For millions of years, the lands of planet Earth have been carved by water.
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And the rivers that flow here are still shaping these great canyons.
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Such places are the home of flying reptiles.
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Pterosaurs.
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Their wings of skin stretch from finger to ankle.
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And they can fly for hundreds of miles in a day.
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They can fly inside the top of the planet.
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They know they can fly for thousands of years.
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And they have to leave.
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each evening they come to this canyon and huge numbers
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to roost on its narrow ledges
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there is safety in numbers
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and anyway few land living hunters venture here
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but one does
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a type of dinosaur
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velociraptor
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their bodies are kept warm by feathers
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but they can't fly
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they are however
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exceptionally agile
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and just as well
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one false step here could bring disaster
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pterosaurs are skittish
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they will take to the air at the first sign of danger
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if the
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velociraptors are to get a meal
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the element of surprise
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will be crucial
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Lightweight bodies and feathered arms help them to control their descent.
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And their broad tails assist them in keeping their balance.
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Those pterosaurs that are resting on the margins of the colony will be the easiest targets.
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The roar of the waterfall rounds the sound of slipping rocks.
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The female goes high.
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The two males stay low.
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A few tetanosaurs are almost within striking distance.
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She has one, but now the whole colony is alarmed.
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In the chaos, her victim slips from the ledge.
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The female puts the effectiveness of her feathered tail to the test.
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And in the end, she gets her meal.
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The males are left to face the pterosaurs.
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The power of freshwater is at work all around the planet.
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Global temperatures are high.
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There are violent storms and terrestrials.
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Global temperatures are high.
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There are violent storms and torrential rains.
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The power of fresh water is at work all around the planet.
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Global temperatures are high, there are violent storms and torrential rains.
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Much of North America is covered by thick, lush forest.
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Here live some of the most gigantic plant-eaters that have ever existed.
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And they, in turn, are prey for the most ferocious of hunters.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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This old male has just brought down a triceratops.
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But in doing so, he's been injured.
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T-Rex are built for hunting large herbivores.
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And many of those have evolved heavy defensive weapons.
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Decades of battling armored prey has scarred his body.
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One battle even cost him the tip of his tail.
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These new injuries are more serious.
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At his great age, infection is a real risk.
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River water could help to clean his wounds.
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He stands a good chance of living to fight another day.
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But that day could come sooner than expected.
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Another T-Rex.
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A stranger.
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But this newcomer has a different smell.
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It's a female.
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She's younger.
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And smaller.
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But nonetheless, she might also be a rival.
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He, however, makes it clear that he's not interested in fighting.
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He would prefer to mate.
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She seems to approve.
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She seems to approve.
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The facial area of a tyrannosaur is very sensitive to touch.
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And they nuzzle.
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His great size and his battle scars are evidence that he is a survivor.
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And that perhaps, in her eyes, makes him an attractive partner.
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And that perhaps, in her eyes, makes him an attractive partner.
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So, they stay together.
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They stay together.
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And in the coming weeks, they mate frequently.
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Eventually, she'll lay up to fifteen eggs.
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And with them comes the promise.
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She'll lay up to fifteen eggs.
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And with them comes the promise.
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of the next generation.
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And with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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And with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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And with them comes the promise.
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And with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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And with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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And with them comes the promise.
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And with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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And with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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and with them comes the promise of the next generation.
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Habitats that depend on fresh water can change rapidly and radically.
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In parts of Central Asia, heavy seasonal rains fill the rivers
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until eventually they overflow their banks.
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The surrounding plains are flooded.
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And through the water wades one of the most bizarre of all dinosaurs.
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Dino Kairos.
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It's even taller than T. rex.
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And its massive duckbill snout is very effective in gathering water plants.
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This male feeds voraciously,
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having eaten very little during the long dry season.
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Water plants are rich in nutrients.
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And his huge curved claws, eight inches long,
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enable him to dredge them up from deep beneath the surface.
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He himself is a source of food for smaller creatures.
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Blood sucking flies, which infest his coat.
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They're irritating and even painful.
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And while his huge claws enable him to have a good scratch,
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there are always some spots that are just out of reach.
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To get to them, he needs assistance.
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A dead tree.
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That could be the answer.
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A dead tree.
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That's much better.
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And now he can get back to feeding.
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But a diet that consists almost entirely of wet vegetation
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does have one inevitable consequence.
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What was food for one becomes fertilizer for many others.
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And a giant as big as Dino Chirus can produce over 20 tons of dung every year.
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Southern Africa.
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Here too, the annual rains create floods.
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And the land turns into a maze of narrow channels running between countless small islands.
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This is now a swamp forest.
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And it attracts one of the largest flying animals that has ever lived on planet Earth.
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A giant pterosaur, Hetzalcoatlus.
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This is a female.
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Her wings are over 30 feet across.
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And she's come here for one particular reason.
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The small islands created by the rising waters are just the place for her to live.
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The small islands created by the rising waters are just the place for her to lay her eggs.
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Quetzalcoatlus are certainly masters of flight, but they're also, perhaps surprisingly, very competent on the ground.
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Each wing is supported by the single greatly elongated bone of her fourth finger.
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By turning her wings upwards, she can walk very effectively on all fours.
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She's come here to make a nest.
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She chooses to do so on damp, swampy soil that will prevent her soft-shelled eggs from drying out.
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Hmm.
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These first two are just the start.
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For the next three weeks, she will guard the open nest.
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And add two more eggs every few days.
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Producing eggs takes a lot of effort and energy.
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Each one is huge, weighing around a kilo.
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Each one is huge, weighing on both sides.
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Eventually, she produces a clutch of a dozen or so.
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She covers them with vegetation to conceal them.
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Now she needs to eat.
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There should be enough food on this island to sustain her youngsters when they hatch.
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But there's nothing substantial enough here to satisfy her own hunger.
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She must leave to hunt for prey elsewhere.
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And trust that the isolation of her nest will keep her unhatched young safe while she's away.
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Another much older Quetzalcoatlus female.
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Another much older Quetzalcoatlus female.
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She, too, is looking for a safe place to lay her eggs.
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And there may not be enough food here for two sets of giant nestlings.
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But there is a way to solve that problem.
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She, too, is looking for a safe place to lay her eggs.
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And there may not be enough food here for two sets of giant nestlings.
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But there is a way to solve that problem.
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And eggs, after all, are very nutritious.
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And eggs, after all, are very nutritious.
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To the other, are very delicious.
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The owner of the nest is back.
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All right.
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The older female is driven off, but the younger female's nest is wrecked.
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Out of the dozen eggs that she laid, only three have survived.
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The success of her breeding season now rests on these three fragile eggs.
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She will protect them as best she can until they hatch in a few months' time.
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And after that, her young will have to fend for themselves.
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As river water flows downstream, it scars out billions of tons of sand and gravel and even
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shifts great boulders.
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The finer sediments may be transported for hundreds of miles, but as the river broadens,
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it slows, and as a consequence, it begins to drop some of its load.
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And animals whose ancestors lived in the sea begin to appear.
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Crabs.
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In some places, there may be dozens per square meter.
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This is Mashikasaurus, a female, six feet long, and she has a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.
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Crabs need to deal with awkward multi-legged prey.
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Crabs may have hard shells, but they're full of protein.
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Too good an opportunity to miss.
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And not only for her.
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She has three young.
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Only four inches tall.
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And not quite ready to take on large crabs.
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They still rely on their mother's leftovers.
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But some youngsters develop hunting instincts early.
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Very tempting.
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The smallest crabs can be swallowed whole.
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Unfortunately, what they lack in size, they make up for in speed.
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It's best for the young not to stray too far.
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Beelzebufo, the Devil Toad.
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One of the largest frogs that has ever existed.
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He won't need to feed again for a month.
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These sandbars may be a rich feeding ground, but there can be a high price to pay for living here.
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The river water is now approaching the sea.
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A taste of salt in its waters is already detectable.
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At high tide, visitors come in from the open sea to explore these channels.
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The mountain.
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A taste of salt, the river water is also according to the river's
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Elasmosaurs, these are true ocean-going reptiles, but some come to estuaries to explore the brackish
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waters.
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Now the millions of tons of sediment carried here by rivers
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is finally delivered into the sea.
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The river water takes time to mix with the ocean
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and for a while the two waters flow side by side.
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Nonetheless, great shoals of fish find plenty on which to feed in these waters.
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The clouds of sediment conceal the fish if they're any distance away.
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But the elysmosaurs don't hesitate to swim into the murkiest of waters
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to pursue their prey.
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There is no escape to the fish.
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Even above the water.
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There is no escape to the fish.
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Even above the water.
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These elysmosaurs collect the last of the river's gifts before its traces are finally lost in the oceans of the planet.
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