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  Walking With Dinosaurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Walking with Dinosaurs re-creates the age of these super-beasts, vividly depicting the landscape in which they lived and the brutal lifestyle they endured.
From the smallest dinosaurs (such as Coelophysis, an early carnivore) to the giants (including the fearsome carnivore Tyrannosaurus and the gentle herbivore Diplodocus), the lives of these awe-inspiring creatures are dramatically brought to life in words and pictures.
Complete with up-to-the-minute scientific debate on such controversial issues as whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded and whether they hunted alone or in packs, and illustrated with stunning visual images in which classic natural-history photography is combined with state-of-the-art computer graphics, Walking with Dinosaurs is the ultimate natural-history experience for the whole family to enjoy.
www.tvfactual.co.uk /walking_with_dinosaurs.htm   (207 words)

  
 DVD Review - Walking with Dinosaurs
But by the time I was 6 or 7, I knew the names of dozens of different kinds of dinosaur, gleaned from a shelf-full of books on the subject.
Imagine that you wanted to direct a documentary series on dinosaurs, and you had a time machine at your disposal, to send an intrepid film crew back to capture the real creatures on film.
Each episode deals with a different era in the history of the dinosaurs reign on Earth, and a slightly different niche in the environment.
www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/walkingwithdinosaurs.html   (1299 words)

  
 Amarillo Globe-News: Local News: Walking in dinosaurs' footsteps 05/14/01
Walking in their footsteps, however, is a different proposition altogether.
The dinosaurs traveled through the Clayton area on what scientists refer to as the "Dinosaur Highway," a path paralleling the shore of an ancient inland sea that dinosaurs apparently migrated along.
Jordan said the lake and the dinosaur prints are Clayton's most popular visitor destinations, with dinosaur buffs traveling from across the world to pay a visit.
amarillo.com /stories/051401/new_walkingin.shtml   (1124 words)

  
 DVD Review - Walking With Dinosaurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When 20th Century Fox Home Video first announced "Walking With Dinosaurs" for release on DVD I had no real idea what the production was really about, other than what the title obviously suggests.
It was during this time that the dinosaurs began their reign of the world.
While he was one of the most dominating creatures on Earth, he too was helpless to the disaster that was about to hit the planet - a giant meteor that caused the demise of all these magnificent creatures.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/walking_with_dinosaurs.shtml   (1293 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs @ Planet Dinosaur
The question of why the dinosaurs went extinct is one of the most frequently asked questions to all dinosaur palaeontologists.
It has been suggested that the impact would have triggered a nuclear winter scenario that would have caused the death of the dinosaurs as well as the pterosaurs, several families of birds and mammals and also marine animals such as the plesiosaurs and ammonites.
Although it is usually assumed that the dinosaurs all went extinct all at the same time all over the world, the truth of the matter is that we only have high resolution data for North America.
planetdinosaur.com /tv_series/death_of_a_dynasty.htm   (459 words)

  
 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Walking With Dinosaurs is such a fantastic idea for a television show that two thoughts kept returning as I waded through it:
Some effects in Walking With Dinosaurs rival that of Jurassic Park, and even those that don't have an artificial beauty to them that is dazzling in its own right.
Even during scenes of carnage, Walking With Dinosaurs has been shot and edited to mimic a nature special so closely that it may soothe as much as entertain, one reason I believe it will ultimately hold less appeal for children than for adults.
filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/walkingwithdinosaurs.htm   (731 words)

  
 "Walking with Dinosaurs", A Review
The popular BBC series "Walking with Dinosaurs" can now be seen in the United States, on the Discovery Channel.
In addition to dinosaurs, the series and book highlight the lives of marine reptiles and pterosaurs.
Sidebars are sprinkled liberally throughout the book, illustrating dinosaur skeletons and skulls, the development of arthropods and different kinds of plants, and explaining many topics, such as continental drift.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4003/37706   (406 words)

  
 The Lost World: Walking With Dinosaurs
Walking With Dinosaurs is something of a thought experiment come to life: what if we had a time machine and film crew and could go back to make a documentary about dinosaurs?
Included with the WWD and Allosaurus videos is a special "making of" program, outlining the scientific evidence and CGI techniques used to bring these films to life.
Walking With Dinosaurs is a phenomenon of sorts.
silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com /TheLostWorld/LWWWD.html   (715 words)

  
 New Blood, Walking with Dinosaurs @ Planet Dinosaur
When dinosaurs first appeared about 230 million years ago the world was very different to as we know it.
By the end of the period not only the dinosaurs had appeared but also pterosaurs (flying reptiles), various kinds of marine reptiles, the first crocodiles, turtles and the earliest true mammals.
It is likely that dinosaurs did not out-compete other animals as has often been assumed, due to their superior speed and agility, but that they were fortunate in that they were not hit as hard by the extinctions.
planetdinosaur.com /tv_series/new_blood.htm   (465 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History: Books: Tim Haines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When dinosaurs first roamed the planet, earth had high sea levels and no ice caps and was covered by one giant continent, Pangaea, which was slowly disintegrating.
Spanning the middle of the Triassic period more than 220 million years ago, when dinosaurs were making their first appearance, through the Late Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, as they were dying off, this marvelously illustrated volume renders a vivid portrait of the extraordinary beasts' violent existence amid an ever-changing terrain.
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History by Tim Haines is the companion book to the Discovery Channel video of the same name.
www.amazon.ca /Walking-Dinosaurs-Natural-Tim-Haines/dp/0789451875   (1453 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs - Fact Files
A major group of herbivorous dinosaurs that diversified into numerous forms in the Cretaceous period.
A major dinosaur group that conmprised both bipedal carnivores and huge four-legged herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs.
There is a debate as to whether birds evolved from dinosaurs or thecodonts.
www.abc.net.au /dinosaurs/fact_files/default.htm   (90 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs - ReviewCorner.com
They draw on their knowledge from their "journeys" in order to construct a dinosaur family tree, dragging and dropping creatures into the appropriate branches of evolution.
Young dinosaur enthusiasts will enjoy the wide selection of dinosaur sounds, screensavers, wallpaper, icons, and cursors for their computer.
Walking with Dinosaurs would best be considered a school title due to its very academic content.
www.reviewcorner.com /software/walkingwdinosaurs.html   (680 words)

  
 Walking With Dinoaurs - Celluloid Dinosaurs - Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
When dinosaurs first appeared, our planet was still recovering from a mass extinction in which 90% of all plant and animal species died out.
While huge dinosaurs made their prey tremble with fear on land, large marine reptiles, many of which vaguely resembled modern-day water species such as dolphins and crocodiles, ruled the sea.
Dinosaurs seem as vigorous as ever, but there are hidden pressures in the environment -- and perhaps a giant meteor on the way -- which ultimately cause the demise of these magnificent creatures.
www.dinosaur.org /walkingwithdinosaurs.htm   (766 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs - Full Review - With Episode Guide
It garnered an estimated 52 share, meaning more than half of all the TV sets that were switched on in England tuned to the show when it aired (roughly 19 million viewers).
Its sly "storytelling" approach to dinosaurs’ lives made it something more—and perhaps less—than a true-life nature special or scientific study: more to the average viewer, less to the hard scientist and dinosaur aficionado.
Such clashes are threatened several times, but "Walking With Dinosaurs" limits most of them to threat displays and a quick retreat by one party before they come to blows.
www.documentaryfilms.net /Reviews/WalkingWithDinosaurs/index.htm   (888 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History: Books: DK Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Haines presents the argument for warm-blooded dinosaurs very convincingly and his theory is backed by the recent discovery of a four-chambered fossilized dinosaur heart in South Dakota.
He presents the dinosaurs not as museum fossils but as living beings who breathed, ate, slept, excreted, reproduced, and survived attack, and where the evidence is scant, his suggestions for filling in the blanks are so rational that we feel we are sharing a typical day in the life of a prehistoric animal.
Walking with Dinosaurs is based on the material for an educational program by the BBC which has been shown on the Discovery Channel, and it is meant to accompany and compliment that production.
www.amazon.com /Walking-Dinosaurs-History-DK-Publishing/dp/0789451875   (2182 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Walking With Dinosaurs (Widescreen): DVD: Kenneth Branagh,Avery Brooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
What they witnessed was dinosaurs brought to life, not in the modern world as in Jurassic Park, but in their original habitats millions of years ago.
Walking with Dinosaurs is an interesting series for lovers of natural history.
One should think that someone who does Shakespeare well should be able to get a dinosaur show done right, but it's obvious that dinosaurs are not Kenneth's passion, and both in WWD and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts one sometimes hears that he is reading a badly-rehearsed (and occasionally poorly-written) script.
www.amazon.ca /Walking-Dinosaurs-Widescreen-Jasper-James/dp/B00004Z4SU   (2169 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs - Benjamin Bartlett
I was a minor dinosaur junkie as a child and often just watch the bits in Jurassic Park with the dinosaurs in becuase they are simply so incredible.
It has to be said that the BBC has lived up to its promise to let the audience walk with dinosaurs and you couldn't have a programme about such portentous subject matter without a suitably stirring score.
Whenever I think of music to go with dinosaurs I'll either think of Jurassic Park or The Lost World (although the former is much higher in the awe and wonder stakes), but also think of the sequence set to Stravinski's Rite of Spring in the Disney epic Fantastia.
www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/walkingwithdinosaurs.htm   (679 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: "Walking with Dinosaurs": A Natural History: Books: Tim Haines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There is no shortage of books on dinosaurs and it has become increasingly difficult to produce anything novel without departing too much from the scientific evidence.
Walking with Dinosaurs is one of the rare gems.
Accompanying the television series, this is an illustrated history of dinosaurs, from their first appearance in the middle of the Triassic period to their sudden demise, 160 million years later, at the end of the Cretaceous era.
www.amazon.co.uk /Walking-Dinosaurs-Natural-History/dp/0563384492   (1063 words)

  
 Walking With Dinosaurs
The "it" I'm referring to is the BBC/Discovery Channel mini-series Walking With Dinosaurs; which, by all measures of television entertainment will, like what Jurassic Park did for motion pictures, be hailed as one of the most scientifically significant technological benchmarks in broadcast television for many years to come.
In fact, Walking With Dinosaurs has been heralded by some scientists as being the most credibly accurate depiction of dinosaur life ever produced, theatrical, TV or otherwise.
The T-Rex is one of 40 dinosaurs brought to life for Walking with Dinosaurs.
www.awn.com /mag/issue4.12/4.12pages/huelsmandino.php3   (627 words)

  
 “Walking with … untruths!”
What makes this program different from the recent spate of dinosaur programs is that it features animatronics and other fancy technologies, but even more interesting than that is the great deal of evolutionary speculation presented as fact to its viewers.
“Walking with Dinosaurs” was originally broadcast on BBC-TV in England, where it was a huge hit—over 12 million viewers tuned in for each of the six episodes.
For example, when you read newspaper articles about so-called “feathered dinosaurs” (which have so far been shown to be untrue), the careful reader will notice many tentative words; on the other hand, this documentary avoids conditional and subjunctive terms, and merely presents everything it says as absolute fact.
www.answersingenesis.org /docs2/4276news4-15-2000.asp   (989 words)

  
 walking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
WWD broke records in most countries, achieving the highest ever viewing figures for documentaries in Britain (18.9 million) and the United States (nearly 40 million), and it has now been seen by over 200 million people worldwide.
Adviser for the first programme of WWD (the Triassic) was Professor Mike Benton, and for the fourth (pterosaurs) was Dr David Unwin, then at Bristol, now at the Humboldt Museum in Berlin.
They suggested that it was impossible to be sure about many of the details of dinosaurian or early mammalian life: what they looked like, their colours, their sounds, how they behaved, and that it was dishonest even to attempt such animations.
palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /dinosaur/walking.html   (452 words)

  
 Television at Framestore CFC: "Walking with Dinosaurs"
"Walking with Dinosaurs" is a major CG animation series for BBC Science produced in collaboration with Framestore CFC, as part of the BBC's flagship science programme.
Framestore CFC's task has been to re-create the animals of that world, and to show what it must have been like to walk amongst the great reptiles.
The design and movement of the dinosaurs has been based on the guidance of a group of paleontological experts from both sides of the Atlantic, and the resulting footage (nearly two and a half hours of photorealistic CG animation) represents two years' work from a dedicated team of CG professionals.
www.framestore-cfc.com /television/wwd/index.html   (120 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs: SoftwareOutlet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Walking with Dinosaurs prehistoric creatures come to life in 3-D animation.
Using the latest scientific findings, Walking With Dinosaurs examines the 155-million-year history of these great creatures, from the aggressive Coelophysis, who first learned to hunt in packs, to Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most terrifying carnivore on the planet.
Walking With Dinosaurs brings to life the mystery and excitement of the age when the reptiles roamed our planet.
www.softwareoutlet.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=3519   (414 words)

  
 Walking With Dinosaurs Two DVD Box Set Review
From the early days when Dinosaurs first appeared after a mass extinction that had wiped out 90 percent of the life on the planet through the millions of years when Dinosaurs ruled the Earth in every area one can imagine until their extinction.
The approach of the series is like a nature program where somehow camera just happened to film Dinosaurs in their natural habitat and then bring back the footage so Actor/Writer/Director, Kenneth Branagh can then provide the commentary.
As a whole, "Walking With Dinosaurs" is top quality entertainment and is easily one of the best DVD sets to be released in the year 2000.
members.aol.com /WriterR5/dinodvd.html   (509 words)

  
 Walking With Dinosaurs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The dinosaurs have been brought back to life so realistically that the individual deaths shown are even poignant at times.
Not to mock impassioned scientists, but almost anything about dinosaurs, beyond the fact they had bones, is "speculative".
You pull it this way, and they spin to the left." Then the talking heads in the beasts series ruined the illusion for me. Half the fun of the first series was pretending you were watching a typical, live-action BBC documentary, breathlessly narrated by someone who sounded like David Attenborough.
www.jumptheshark.com /w/walkingwithdinosaurs.htm   (718 words)

  
 Walking with Dinosaurs TV Show - Walking with Dinosaurs Television Show - TV.com
Though one must keep in mind that the stories are mere speculation, the filmmakers enlisted the aide of scientists to provide them with as many facts as possible for this series.
Walking with Dinosaurs scored the highest ratings for a cable series ever when it aired on the Discovery Channel.
This six-part series, developed by Framestore Ltd. and the BBC, follows the life of Earth\'s greatest life forms through their reign over the Mesozoic world, from their humble beginning in the late Triassic, to their fall in the Cretaceous.
www.tv.com /walking-with-dinosaurs/show/12206/summary.html   (425 words)

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