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Documentary, Sea Monsters - S01E02 A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy - Into the Jaws of Death
Sea Monsters (full title Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy), marketed as Chased by Sea Monsters in the United States, is a 2003 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. Following in the footsteps of The Giant Claw (2002) and Land of Giants (2003), special episodes of the nature documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters stars British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven as a "time-travelling zoologist" who travels to seven different periods of time in prehistory, diving in the "seven deadliest seas of all time" and encountering and interacting with the prehistoric creatures who inhabit them. The series is narrated by Karen Hayley.
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Sea Monsters (full title Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy), marketed as Chased by Sea Monsters in the United States, is a 2003 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. Following in the footsteps of The Giant Claw (2002) and Land of Giants (2003), special episodes of the nature documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters stars British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven as a "time-travelling zoologist" who travels to seven different periods of time in prehistory, diving in the "seven deadliest seas of all time" and encountering and interacting with the prehistoric creatures who inhabit them. The series is narrated by Karen Hayley.
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00:00This is where you feel like you're most vulnerable, actually swimming into the cage with a great
00:10chunk of bait. It's a duck, the osteus. This is what we came for.
00:21This is Nigel Marvin. He's a zoologist and an expert in tackling dangerous animals.
00:27But his latest adventure is really testing his nerve. He's left the safety of the 21st century behind and traveled back to prehistory.
00:36His mission, to visit the seven deadliest seas of all time and to come face to face with the most terrifying sea creatures that the earth has ever known.
00:45So far he's experienced three of the deadly seas and from here on it's only going to get worse.
00:52He's about to meet the owner of these jaws and worse still, the most lethal shark the world has ever seen.
01:01But only if he can escape the Devonian seas and an armored fish called Dunkleosteus.
01:07Dunkleosteus.
01:08He's coming in again. He's fast this time.
01:10Dunkleosteus.
01:11He's coming in again. He's fast this time.
01:22No! Slammed the cage again.
01:26This is getting serious. He really won up the cage. Dented the bars there. He really wants this bait.
01:35I want to win the bet I had with the crew. This sea monster. I'm sure he can slice through chain mail.
01:43Look at that. He's coming. Closer.
01:49Oh God! Nearly wrenched my arm out of the socket.
01:53And it is chomping through that. Slicing through it. Chain mail and all.
02:00And I have won my bet.
02:02There's a little Dunkleosteus here. Right underneath me. He's looking for little tidbits.
02:13These armored fish. They flourished for around 50 million years. Then all of them became extinct.
02:21Wow! Wow!
02:25Listen to that. It makes you shudder.
02:29The big predator is crunching through that juvenile. Crunching through the plates.
02:38The Dunkleosteus was certainly showing its true form.
02:41It's not just a predator. It's a cannibal as well.
02:49And as for its table manners...
02:55Believe it or not, this is normal behaviour.
02:58The Dunkleosteus isn't being sick.
03:01But a fish like this that feeds on armored food needs to get rid of the indigestible bits.
03:07And it's regurgitated the bits of fish armor. And in this case the chain mail.
03:13And this is perfectly normal.
03:17Normal for 360 million years ago. Maybe.
03:20Maybe.
03:23But there's no time to rest on laurels.
03:26They've yet to reach the halfway mark in their voyage through the most perilous seas of prehistory.
03:33Ahead of them are four more ever deadlier encounters.
03:38Next up, our time travelling crew heads to an era closer to the present day.
03:43In fact, it's a mere 36 million years ago.
03:47Which is midway between the extinction of the dinosaurs and modern day.
03:51It's home to the meanest sea mammal that has ever lived.
03:55This must be one of the squelchiest of habitats.
04:14Mangrove swamps, they're lush, muddy.
04:16And there's water everywhere.
04:19As far from a desert as you could imagine.
04:22But believe it or not, this will one day become the Sahara.
04:27I'm on the site of what will become Cairo.
04:31And if I stood here for 36 million years, the Egyptians would come and start building pyramids on my head.
04:38The Eocene is the beginning of the time of mammals.
04:46They rule the earth, they rule the sea, and as I was about to find out, they even rule the bit in between.
04:59These look really promising, look.
05:03Feet have splayed out just like a camel's to support the weight, spread the weight,
05:07so they don't sink into the sand.
05:11But it's a really curious track.
05:14Look, they're widely spaced.
05:16Most animals, when they walk, it's one foot in front of the other.
05:19It's almost like this animal swings the weight of its body from side to side as it's walking along.
05:25This is really weird.
05:27So it must be a big, big animal that waddles along.
05:31Let me see if I can...
05:38Every tracker's dream, look.
05:42A pile of fresh dung.
05:44It's so fresh, you can almost feel the heat emanating off it.
05:49The Inuit, it's rumoured that they actually eat bits of dung to learn about the animals they're tracking.
05:55I'm gonna give that a miss, but...
05:58Oh yeah, if you smell that, it's a really sweet, not too unpleasant, a sweet smell.
06:03And I think the animal I'm looking for is a fruit eater.
06:06It's the only animal that waddles like that.
06:24It is a surreal creature with a funny name.
06:27It's called an Arsinoetherium.
06:30These creatures have extraordinary horns.
06:34You can tell this is a male because they splay out.
06:37The females, they're much more fertile.
06:39And this is what he uses for defence and for fighting.
06:43They've got disadvantages to look.
06:45He's looking at me now, but he can't look because the horns are actually covering his eyes.
06:50He knows we're here, but he's not approaching or anything, not running away.
06:58He's edgy, but I really want to get a closer look.
07:09I'm gonna try something and see whether he'd like to eat something from the 21st century.
07:20Let's go.
07:50It might look like a rhino, but this mammal is in fact more closely related to the elephant.
08:03More surprising still is that it lives like a hippo.
08:12Arsinoetherium is a sea monster after all, well at least an amphibious one.
08:17There's plentiful food in the mangroves for a huge vegetarian like this, but living here
08:22is difficult.
08:23A beach in the morning is a lagoon by midday.
08:26Arsinoetherium, though, is adapted to deal with the changing tides.
08:33A creature that's as happy in water as on land.
08:37In fact, probably happier.
08:40The Iocene is a momentous time for mammals.
08:47As well as amphibious species, new types have evolved which are totally adapted to life in the ocean.
08:53Here were some of them.
08:55Doradon, a species of ancient whale.
09:00And whales were the reason I'd come here, though not for these tiddlers.
09:05I was after a far bigger, meaner whale that eats Doradon for breakfast.
09:18It was time to find the tyrant that rules these waters.
09:34We're sailing right here in the middle of the Tethys Sea, which runs between Europe and Africa.
09:39This is a pretty unfamiliar map, because it's not like this in the 21st century.
09:44This sea closes up and dries up, and we're actually sailing over what will become the Sahara Desert.
09:50And this is the monster that we're looking for.
09:56Bacillosaurus, that name means King Lizard, because when these fossils were first found in 1832, they were thought to be giant reptiles.
10:04But this is in fact a primitive whale.
10:07Here's an artist's impression from around 1960.
10:10And as you can see, they thought Bacillosaurus were very reptilian too.
10:14Just like sea serpents, or even the Loch Ness monster.
10:18And this skull is what's chilling to me.
10:23There's no whales with skulls like this in modern times.
10:26Great peg-like teeth at the front of the jaw for seizing prey.
10:30Once inside the mouth, the prey is then sliced up by these big teeth at the back, great big cusps at the top.
10:36They are for slicing through flesh.
10:39This is by far the biggest predator in the Eocene seas.
10:44Drop the anchor!
10:48But how on earth do we find one?
10:51The configuration of the bones in the fossil skulls of Bacillosaurus is really good evidence that they can hear pretty well.
10:58Modern whales, they are so noisy, and we're hoping that Bacillosaurus is just the same.
11:03We've got underwater recording equipment here, and if we can eavesdrop on their conversations,
11:08we should be able to locate where the whales are.
11:11Fingers crossed on this one.
11:13It's nothing, it's just shrimps and fish, isn't it? No whales there.
11:36Nothing there.
11:37Let's move off somewhere else.
11:39Okay.
11:43Let's move off somewhere else.
11:44Let's move on.
11:45Let's move on.
11:46Let's move on.
11:47Let's move on.
11:48Come on.
11:49Nigel.
11:50So we've got something in there.
11:51Oh, that is spooky.
11:52It's definitely a whale.
11:53Yeah, definitely.
11:54Nigel, think we've got some in there.
12:10That is spooky.
12:11It's definitely a whale.
12:12Yeah, definitely.
12:13And maybe we've found the Sinosaurus.
12:23The whale's still in the vicinity, but where is it?
12:38The trouble is, sound travels much farther and faster in water than in air,
12:42and he could be miles away.
12:43So what we need to do is try to entice him to us.
12:46That sound, that eerie sound that you're hearing,
12:49that's what we recorded earlier, that's his calls,
12:52but we're playing them right out into the ocean with a massive speaker,
12:55and hopefully he'll think there's another whale in his territory,
12:58and come towards us.
13:04Scientists have tried this with modern whales with mixed success,
13:08but it was the best hope we had of bringing in a Bacillosaurus.
13:15It's getting louder. It's as loud as it's ever been.
13:20.
13:25.
13:26.
13:27.
13:29.
13:30.
13:34.
13:35I don't know how long these animals are going to hang around.
13:42You've got to be fast on this one.
13:53I had no idea what I'd find.
13:56I had no idea what I'd find.
14:26I had no idea what I'd find.
14:33Oh, wow!
14:35And there it was, the long, streamlined shape.
14:38This had to be Bacillosaurus.
14:41But it was nothing like the sea serpent of early drawings.
14:44It was a whale, but unlike any I'd seen before.
14:47It didn't have blubber.
14:49In this warm water, it didn't need it.
14:51It looked for all the world like a whale on dire pills.
14:54And look at this thing.
14:57Compare it with the boat.
14:58That gives a great idea of scale.
15:01And he's over half the length of this 80-foot boat.
15:0550 feet or so.
15:07And this really is a fearsome predator.
15:10I'm glad I'm next to the boat.
15:12I wouldn't fancy being in open water with this one.
15:17I wish the sound technician, I wish he'd turn this off.
15:21It's really starting to distress the whale.
15:23He's coming in close.
15:24He's actually bitten the speaker off.
15:42He's shaking it like a terrier.
15:44Shaking a rat.
15:45So we've lost our speaker.
15:49But it doesn't matter.
15:50We had a really brilliant view of a Bacillosaurus.
15:56This, though, is a world on the verge of great change.
16:00The continent of Africa is moving north towards Asia and Europe,
16:04causing this ancient seaway to disappear.
16:08Bacillosaurus will disappear with it.
16:11Next in store is the Pliocene.
16:16The time when our earliest ancestors were starting to walk upright.
16:21It's surprising what lived in our seas just four million years ago.
16:37We're in Peru, right on the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
16:42And living out there, there's something terrifying.
16:46So if you're afraid of sharks, you'll be a gibbering wreck
16:50when you see what we're going to try next.
16:54Look, the most famous jaws in history are great white sharks.
17:00I've swum with those in the open ocean,
17:03but they're minnows in comparison to the prehistoric shark I'm hoping to meet.
17:08Megalodon, the biggest carnivorous fish that's ever lived.
17:13That name, Megalodon, what it means, it means big tooth.
17:17And I don't think I need to explain why.
17:20By hunting a Megalodon, we were getting into ever more dangerous waters
17:33and caution had started to creep in amongst the crew.
17:37There was disagreement about our next course of action.
17:41I think we should head straight out into the deep water.
17:44The weather may change. Let's look for the adults.
17:46I think we should start with the juveniles.
17:48We haven't got enough time to do that.
17:49I think we should go for the smaller ones.
17:52We couldn't be sure how Megalodon would behave.
17:55Some argued that it would be worth studying smaller, safer juveniles
17:59before risking a dive with an adult.
18:02In the end, I had to agree.
18:05I'll do one dive with the juveniles
18:07and then I think we ought to head out into the drop-off
18:09and try to find the adults.
18:10With sharks, it's all about diving in the right place.
18:17Like young great whites, juvenile Megalodon
18:19tend to be in shallow water away from the adults.
18:23Partly for their own safety,
18:24but also they do prey on very different things.
18:28There shouldn't be any adults on this dive.
18:37I'm hugging the kelp here.
18:39I don't want to be caught out in open water.
18:42Big predators, they don't like going into dense weed like this.
18:46The other thing is I'm hoping to find the creatures
18:48that juvenile Megalodon prey on
18:50and they are the oddest of creatures.
18:57There, Odominosotopsleptodon.
19:00That name is a mix of Greek and Latin
19:03and it means the whale that walks on its teeth
19:06and if it turns towards us,
19:08you can see why one tusk is about a foot long
19:12but on the other side, the right-hand side,
19:14look at that.
19:15It's about three feet long
19:17and the males probably use those
19:19for jousting with us
19:21and with each other in the breeding season
19:23just like narwhals.
19:25Slurping sounds.
19:26They are superb.
19:29Flippin' heck, look!
19:30I can't take my eyes off that.
19:51The biggest great white shark ever
19:54was just over 20 feet long.
19:56That thing, it must be just three years old
19:59and that's that size already.
20:02Just imagine diving with a full-grown Megalodon
20:0520 times the weight of this one.
20:08What had I let myself in for?
20:14We'd seen a juvenile Megalodon
20:16but we hadn't yet learnt that much about them.
20:18I specifically wanted to see how they hunted.
20:23We couldn't just wait around for an attack to happen.
20:26We needed to make it happen.
20:33This Odebinosa tops,
20:34it wouldn't fool you or me
20:36but hopefully as a decoy
20:37it will fool the juvenile Megalodons.
20:39If they're anything like great whites
20:41when they see this in silhouette at the surface
20:43they should come up to investigate
20:45and it will enable us to learn a bit more about them.
20:48Our dummy didn't swim as well as an Odebinosa tops
20:58but the young sharks didn't seem to be put off by that.
21:02After just 15 minutes
21:04our onboard camera got the shock of its life.
21:07Look at what's happened to the decoy.
21:22Did it hit it from below?
21:23Straight up from underneath.
21:24You can see the damage that was done here.
21:27It seems that Megalodon
21:28has one of the same hunting techniques
21:30as great white sharks.
21:32What they do
21:32they can't afford to be injured by their prey.
21:34They sneak up from below
21:35make a devastating attack
21:37and the power of that big fish
21:39well look what it's done to this decoy.
21:41This is obviously weaker than a real animal
21:43real sinew and muscle
21:45so that's why it smashed it in two.
21:47But if this was a real animal
21:48it would of course bleed to death
21:51then the shark would come in
21:52when it was really weak
21:53and then make the final coup de grace.
21:58Megalodon are probably relatives of great whites
22:01and we now knew that the juveniles
22:03attack their prey in a very similar way.
22:07But what about the adults?
22:08How did they hunt?
22:10And what does a shark
22:11over 50 feet long prey on?
22:16Leaving the juveniles behind
22:17we took our boat a few miles offshore.
22:20It was time to meet a monster.
22:35Stop the anchor!
22:37Anyone who's tried to get close to sharks
22:41knows this eye-watering stench.
22:44It's the smell of chum
22:45that's a mix of fish blood
22:47fish oil
22:47bits of fish pieces
22:49what we're going to do
22:49is throw that over the side
22:51there'll be a trail of odour
22:52which will go for miles in the current
22:54a Megalodon will smell that
22:56and start zigzagging towards the boat.
22:58When it gets close
22:59we've also got this amazing delicacy for it
23:02a great big bag of fish chunks
23:04and that should entice it
23:05and keep it around the boat.
23:07And if they do come
23:08what we've got here
23:09is shark cam.
23:11There's a little camera inside this.
23:14We want to get an insight
23:15into the world of the Megalodon.
23:17I've got to get close enough
23:18to attach it to the base
23:19of the massive dorsal fin of a Megalodon.
23:22It won't hurt the shark.
23:23This will dissolve in a couple of days.
23:24The camera will pop up to the surface
23:27and then we'll find it
23:28and hopefully get some insight
23:30into the behaviour of the wild Megalodon.
23:32Oh my God.
23:37There's energy yes sir.
23:38The témoji on the way
23:39is with soda for advertising
23:39and this water.
23:40We've got to be played
23:41perfectly well
23:42and this will
23:42the sauna.
23:42I'm sure there's something to the left over there.
24:04Are you sure?
24:05Yeah, I'm pretty certain.
24:12Look at that thing.
24:14It can't be anything else but an adult megalodon.
24:16It's more like a sail than a fin,
24:18and what we've got to do now is get the cage into the water.
24:29I can't see this.
24:30You can see the blood and the fish oil leaking out of the chum bag.
24:47I need to be really prepared for this with a camera.
24:50We may only get one chance at it.
24:52Who knows how long the megalodon's going to hang around.
25:00This is scary.
25:03I'm scared.
25:12Look!
25:13It's going straight for the cage.
25:21Oh, my word.
25:30Oh, my God.
25:56What thing prepares you for this?
26:00I feel like just shooting to the surface and getting out of this cage, but I've got to pull myself together.
26:15I'll just admit I am really, really scared of this.
26:19He looks like he's taking a pass now where he's going to be really close.
26:34And then see whether I can get the shortcut on.
26:41Missed that time.
26:50I've got to get the camera onto the fin.
27:11This is hopeless. This is harder than I thought. The fin is just too high.
27:19And he's coming straight out the cage.
27:49I can't attach the camera from the cage.
27:57So I'm going to try from this platform.
28:00The chumble, don't put it over the side. Keep your eye on the sharks.
28:04If you can get it in a line along here, please.
28:07And I'll be ready.
28:19I'll be ready.
28:20I'll be ready.
28:21I'll be ready.
28:22I'll be ready.
28:23I'll be ready.
28:25Do you have what it takes to capture a Megalodon?
28:29Visit bbc.co.uk slash science and test your survival skills in the seven deadly seas.
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