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The Dinosaurs Episode 3 PrimeCut Series
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00:10One hundred and twenty-five million years ago, winter rages across the north.
00:26Entire species have been pushed to the brink.
00:40Even the largest dinosaurs are unable to endure this cold.
00:52Like these sauropods migrating south.
01:05Weta came early this year and caught them off guard.
01:19With hundreds of kilometers ahead of them, this time it will be an especially harsh journey.
01:33But the bitter cold is not the only danger in this frozen land.
01:41There is a much greater threat here, in these woods.
02:04Euteranus.
02:05Euteranus.
02:06The Snow King.
02:13An early relative of T-Rex.
02:19With a thick, insulating coat of feathers, he's perfectly adapted for life in a world this cold.
02:36But his feathers also serve a more sinister purpose.
02:43Euteranus.
02:47Camouflage.
02:49The ultimate weapon for an ambush hunter.
03:21VIORINUS.
03:40I don't know.
03:52In a savage, ever-changing world, some will rise and some will fall.
04:06But through it all, the dinosaurs will expand their empire and advance relentlessly to seize Earth's final frontiers.
04:31The End
06:33Volcanoes seethe and fume, warming the planet.
06:53But some will pay a price for this warmer world.
07:45As global temperatures continue to rise...
07:51The snow and ice all but disappear.
08:00Huge meltwater rivers tear through the land.
08:10This thawing of the north is expanding the dinosaur's empire even further...
08:20And in surprising new ways.
08:30In this fresh, fertile landscape, sauropods no longer need to migrate.
08:39But it's also a new world for one of the dinosaur's oldest rivals...
08:48The pterosaurs.
08:51They are now bigger...
08:54And badder...
08:56Than ever.
09:02Including...
09:03Grey Draco.
09:04The ghost dragon.
09:13But he's an intruder here.
09:21Because these trees are the home of Longipteryx.
09:27A new kind of dinosaur.
09:30A new kind of dinosaur.
09:31Less than 20 centimeters tall.
09:35But highly territorial.
09:38Especially during nesting season.
09:56They're also equipped to take on the pterosaurs.
10:03Now they too can fly.
10:16In a previous era...
10:19Flying dinosaurs like Ancyonis could only glide.
10:25Now they're able to flap their wings...
10:29And maneuver with precision to strike at their enemies.
10:43They're fast...
10:45And fearless.
10:57It only gets worse...
11:00For the towering pterosaur.
11:04Because Longipteryx...
11:06Are distant cousins...
11:08Of Eutyrannus...
11:10The Snow King.
11:12They're armed...
11:14With the teeth...
11:16And claws...
11:17Of their clan.
11:29After ruling the skies since the Triassic...
11:34Pterosaurs...
11:35Are now being matched by the dinosaurs.
11:46But as the dinosaurs fight to expand their empire into the air...
11:53An even greater revolution...
11:56Lies ahead.
12:06Not in the mountains...
12:09Or the skies...
12:12Or the oceans.
12:13The biggest twist...
12:16The biggest twist...
12:16In Earth's tale...
12:18Is unfolding quietly...
12:21Almost...
12:22In secret.
12:27Seven million years later...
12:30This new force...
12:33Is slowly rewriting the dinosaur story.
12:50This...
12:51Is one of the first flowers...
12:53This forest has ever seen.
12:56One...
12:57Just one...
12:59In a vast...
13:01And diverse...
13:02New generation of plants.
13:07And they will become a phenomenon...
13:11With the help of a close ally.
13:21Beetles.
13:23They carry pollen from one flower...
13:27To the next.
13:36Nature's most reliable delivery service.
13:45Helping these new plants...
13:47Spread far and wide...
13:49Across the globe.
13:56Transforming the dinosaur's empire.
14:10Transforming the dinosaur's empire.
14:12But this...
14:13New generation of plants...
14:16Has a dark side.
14:19Sleep-train of the dead.
14:22One day...
14:23Of the city...
14:25While they need to attract...
14:27Pollinators.
14:29Many are also evolved...
14:32To repel herbivores.
14:38With spines...
14:41Thorns...
14:42and poisons.
14:50Nature's defensive weapons.
14:58This green revolution
15:01changes everything
15:03for the plant-eating dinosaurs,
15:08including
15:09the great stegosaurs.
15:21They're herd animals by nature.
15:25But this young stegosaur,
15:29barely two years old,
15:31is all alone.
15:39She is the last of her herd.
15:54To eat these tougher new plants
15:57requires mouthful and chew food
16:00in a way her primitive jaw cannot.
16:11She's starving.
16:17Well, I'm not sure.
16:27This is the dream of the wilderness.
16:30I'm curious.
16:31It is what I'm trying to figure out
16:31about to survive.
16:41It's something about a bird
16:43their 50-million-year existence will come to an end.
16:50Extinction.
16:59But in the wake of the Stegasaur's demise,
17:03a new era will emerge.
17:11Over the next 15 million years,
17:15these new plants evolve and diversify,
17:21spreading across the planet
17:23and ever further into the dinosaur's empire.
17:36The Green Revolution now covers the globe.
17:42And not just the land,
17:45but the water as well.
17:53Even providing cover and food
17:58for underwater explorers
18:05like ankylosaurs.
18:27This bathing beauty is a different kind of dinosaur.
18:39He's a plant-eater, like the Stegasaurs,
18:44but a fancier one.
18:46Much fancier.
18:54Because unlike the Stegasaurs,
18:58his advanced jaw can crush food
19:02in a way that makes eating any kind of plant easy.
19:09It's the perfect adaptation
19:12for this diverse new world.
19:22he wants to take full advantage
19:25of all this great kingdom has to offer.
19:30And he has a plan.
19:32And he has a plan.
19:41It's a long track.
19:46But the journey is worth it.
20:07This is the one place where he can truly be himself.
20:23His passion is singing.
20:33He even has special hollows in his snout that amplify his song.
20:44So it can be heard far and wide.
20:48It can be heard far and wide.
20:53It can be heard far and wide.
21:10It can be heard far and wide.
21:31A female has answered his call.
21:37It's time to charm her with his deep, sultry humming.
21:49Then, he shows her his stylish armor.
22:04It's all very persuasive.
22:12It's all very persuasive.
22:17It's all very persuasive.
22:22It's all very persuasive.
22:27Their fancy attire does have some drawbacks, mind you.
22:35On the whole, though, heavy armor and an improved jaw
22:40are setting them up for success.
22:50But what no dinosaur could possibly know
22:54is that their empire has been gradually shrinking.
23:04Hidden below the waves,
23:08this world, once ruled by dinosaurs,
23:15is now completely out of their reach.
23:25And there's a reason.
23:32At the very bottom of the ocean,
23:37a slow, imperceptible shift,
23:43reshaping the planet.
23:51The sea bed is fracturing.
23:56From an endless progression of eruptions.
24:25Earth's tectonic plates are shifting.
24:30Breaking apart the ocean floor.
24:34Lifting it higher over millions of years.
24:42The water above has nowhere else to go but up.
24:49By the middle of the Cretaceous,
24:52sea levels reach their highest point in history.
24:58Over 200 meters higher than they are today.
25:18The rising oceans repaint the map of the world,
25:24erasing entire land masses.
25:30The continent of Europe is reduced to a giant archipelago
25:36that includes the Isle of Herzeg.
25:41The Isle of Herzeg.
25:45Where isolation and evolution have created
25:49a kind of Neverland for the dinosaurs.
25:53A world where normal rules don't apply.
26:05This is the home of Magyarosaurus.
26:11A sauropod.
26:15And, like other sauropods,
26:17he uses his long neck to reach the highest vegetation.
26:33Thing is,
26:36this vegetation is only two meters tall.
26:41which makes Magyarosaurus about the size of a pony.
27:02On Hatzeg,
27:04where there's limited space and food,
27:08sometimes smaller is better.
27:27But unlike Magyarosaurus,
27:31for predators,
27:34bigger is still better.
27:49As tall as a giraffe,
27:52one of the largest pterosaurs to ever live.
28:00The nightmare
28:03Hatzegopteryx.
28:09She's flown to this island
28:12to feed
28:14on dinosaurs.
28:25The youngest member of the herd
28:27gets separated.
28:36But it won't be an easy catch.
28:41Unlike his giant cousins,
28:44he's white on his feet.
28:54He's white on his feet.
29:03He's white on his feet.
29:11He's white on his feet.
29:12But being this small,
29:14he can't see the others.
29:16you can't see the others.
29:17The next one...
29:24They found the safe hiding spot.
29:26They found the safe hiding spot.
29:26Perfect for their size.
30:22Perfect for their size.
30:27Oh, my God.
31:12The tiny dinosaurs trapped on an island has nowhere else to go.
31:31But in a world so divided by the ocean, evolution takes different turns in different places.
31:49Ninety-six million years ago, sea levels are close to the highest they've ever been.
32:06Creating a water world that no dinosaur has dared to enter.
32:20But that's about to change.
32:35Lurking in this mangrove swamp is a carnivore that has specially evolved to take on the final frontier.
32:57A dinosaur pioneer.
33:12Spinosaurus.
33:13Spinosaurus.
33:17Spinosaurus.
33:20Spinosaurus.
33:20Spinosaurus.
33:20The largest predator to ever walk the Earth.
33:41Spinosaurus.
33:41The forest provides plenty of prey.
33:48But another reason she's gotten this big
33:52is because of where she goes to escape the gloom of the swamp.
34:14Here, the high sea levels have turned the oceans
34:18into a new hunting ground for the dinosaurs.
34:23Where bigger is definitely better.
34:54Spinosaurus is adapted to a planet that is now mostly ocean.
35:01And in this age, some of the largest prey is here in the water.
35:23Sharks.
35:29In a flat-out chase between a shark and a giant dog-paddling dinosaur,
35:36the shark will always win.
35:42But there's more to Spinosaurus than meets the eye.
35:53Dinosaurs aren't just becoming bigger.
35:58Some are cunning, too.
36:01She's going to make the sharks come to her.
36:16Her snout is wired with sensors that can detect the slightest movement.
36:25She's going to keep her safe.
36:27Now, all she needs to do...
36:30...is keep completely still.
36:48They're best hunters.
36:51are the patient ones.
36:55And her patience is starting to pay off.
37:06The blood in the water is drawing the sharks closer.
37:29The oxygen of the water is in.
37:29And the water is coming in.
37:31So, let's see what happens here.
37:34The water is coming from air.
37:39Here, the water is coming from air.
37:54She doesn't move.
38:00She knows how this game is played.
38:23Brains and brawn, a killer combination that is finally letting the dinosaurs get a foothold
38:35in the ocean.
38:45Their reach is now global and extends to the very ends of the Earth, to what will one
38:59day be Antarctica.
39:12While Spinosaurus is stalking the shallow seas and the tropics, the world's southernmost
39:20landmass is not the frozen wilderness we know today.
39:27It's a green, flourishing Eden, where even in the dark, evolution is lighting the way.
39:51And thriving in the darkness are the dinosaurs.
40:09By this stage in the late Cretaceous, their empire is so vast that they now dominate every continent
40:19on Earth.
40:29And yet, while their reign is global, and their rule almost unchallenged, their story will
40:44take a dark turn.
40:46What a champion of the world, who
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