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Documentary, Natural History Museum Alive 2014 - Gigantophis giant snake, Gigantophis-genus of reptiles Full Documentary: link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9pjfc6
This documentary narrated by David Attenborough was filmed at the Natural History Museum, London, and uses state of the art CGI imagery to bring to life several extinct animals in the museum, including Archaeoptery, the Moa Ratite bird (Dinornis) and Haast's eagle. The documentary was well-received, and won a TV BAFTA in the specialist factual category.

David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive is a 2014 British documentary film. Written and presented by David Attenborough, it aired on Sky One on New Year's Day 2014.[1]

The documentary was filmed at the Natural History Museum, London, and uses CGI imagery to bring life to several of the extinct animal skeletons in the museum, including Archaeopteryx, the giant moa and Haast's eagle, Gigantopithecus (contrasting prevailing expert opinion; presented as bipedal and more hominin than pongine), the dodo, Glossotherium, Smilodon, Gigantophis, Ichthyosaurus and the London-based replica of the famous Diplodocus skeleton, Dippy.. #Museum #Gigantophis # giantsnake #DavidAttenborough #NaturalHistory #Dinosaurs

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00:00Science calls this snake Chycantophis, and it was truly immense.
00:22Certainly big enough to swallow me, but would it have eaten human beings?
00:29It might well have done if we had both been around at the same time, but it lived 40 million
00:48years ago and had become extinct long before human beings appeared on Earth.
00:54So maybe it preyed on dinosaurs?
00:59Well, no.
01:01Dinosaurs are even older than Chycantophis and disappeared some 25 million years before
01:08it evolved.
01:13In that case, what about mammals such as sheep or deer?
01:21No.
01:22At least, not modern mammals like these.
01:32How could Chycantophis tackle one of these?
01:39Well, it didn't use venom to kill its prey.
01:45We know, from its massive size, that it must have been a constrictor.
01:54Constrictors, having seized an animal with their jaws, wrap their coils around their prey,
02:00and squeezed so hard, they stop their victim's heart, and it dies within a few minutes.
02:13I wonder if he realizes that his dinner tonight is a fiberglass model.
02:20The Licholas is also playing atviock
02:27so he's not applying.
02:29Let her go into the Licholas
02:32Backslips
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