Snag This: Dinosaur Hunters: Secrets of the Gobi Desert
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When real scientists watch Will Ferrell taunting dinosaurs in the trailers for Land of the Lost, I wonder who they're rooting for? Speaking of real scientists, SnagFilms has made a doc available that provides a pretty good look at the trials and tribulations of a true-life field expedition.
Dinosaur Hunters: Secrets of the Gobi Desert follows scientists from the American Museum of Natural History in New York as they head to the "sun-scorched badlands" of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. They are retracing the steps of a famed expedition led by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews in 1922, who made a discovery that "stunned the world": fossilized dinosaur eggs. Of perhaps even more interest to movie fans, he discovered the first evidence of a dinosaur he called an ovoraptor, later and more popularly known as velociraptor. (Hello, Jurassic Park!) Andrews became a national hero.
American paleontologists were prohibited from visiting Mongolia for decades. Finally, Natural History scientists were permitted to enter, but had just two weeks to gather what remains they could uncover. They are especially interested in the oviraptor, once thought to be an egg thief. The documentary presents a peek into the day-to-day ups and downs experienced by the paleontologists: joys of great finds mitigated by harsh desert conditions and disappointment that a new type of dinosaur is, in fact, entirely common and ordinary. Mostly, it's hours and hours of hard, dirty work.
Dinosaur Hunters is a presentation of National Geographic and is well-suited for TV viewing. We've embedded the documentary below for your viewing convenience. More information can be found at SnagFilms.
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6-04-2009 @ 10:51AM
mdk said...
Hopefully, unlike other "History" Channel-type docs with the word "Hunters" in their titles, such as Ghost Hunters or UFO Hunters, the investigators in this show will ACTUALLY FIND dinosaurs (of course I mean dinosaur skeletons, no idiotic "lost worlds" or cloning required, I'm happy with just the fossils).
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