Lake Placid. Stille idyllisk vand omgivet af smuk natur. En ren postkort sø. Holder du billedet for dit indre blik? Godt. Tilsæt en 10 meter lang frådende tænderklaprende monster krokodille med et hidsigt temperament, som kun overgås af dens voldsomt store appetit. Lad os sige det sådan her: turistchefen er ikke glad. Et lille hold af forskere forsøger at få svar på, hvor monsteret kommer fra og hvornår det for øvrigt er spisetid igen men alt tyder på, at de kommer til at lære krokodillen lidt for godt at kende, før de når så langt.
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
Film, Komedie/Romantik, Den udbrændte videnskabsmand Dr. Rick Marshall bliver suget igennem et ormehul, der transporterer ham tilbage i tiden. Uden våben og med få praktiske færdigheder må han nu forsøge at klare sig i en verden, hvor omstrejfende dinosaurer og fantastiske væsner gør overlevelse til en daglig kamp. Sammen med assistenten Holly og eventyreren Will må han sætte sin lid til primaten Chaka, hvis de skal gøre sig håb om at vende tilbage til deres egen verden
Dr. David Huxley er paleontolog og glæder sig til at få en ny knogle fra en dinosauer. Susan Vance er fuld af spillopper og vild med David. Derfor bruger hun sin leopard, Baby, til at tiltrække sig hans opmærksomhed. Det er lettere sagt end gjort, blandt andet fordi David er distræt, smånørdet og desuden forlovet med Alice.
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
Two years after the discovery of "Sue," the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, government officials seize the remains and claim that "Sue" was stolen from federal land.
Da videnskabsmanden dr. Calgary vender hjem til England efter en lang rejse erfarer han, at han var eneste alibi for en ung mand, der i mellemtiden er blevet hængt for mordet på sin rige adoptivmor.
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
While dinosaurs may have been some of the mightiest creatures ever to have walked the earth, they also could have been among the most bizarre. With extreme, exaggerated body parts, some predators were loaded with outlandish or disproportionately sized appendages. Join world-renowned paleontologists and travel the globe to unearth some of the lesser-known but most surprising members of the dinosaur family: Mamenchisaurus, whose neck alone was longer than the rest of its body; Chasmosaurus, adorned with a fashionable crown of frilly spikes to attract the eyes of potential suitors; Spinosaurus, with massive extensions from its vertebrae that could have supported a sail or a hump; and Parasaurolophus, whose tube-like head crest may look odd to us, but was a mating magnet back in the day.
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
See the earliest creatures of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous in a ‘life-sized’ IMAX ® presentation. Join renowned paleontologists as they discover new fossils and uncover evidence that dinosaur descendants are still among us. Realistic and scientifically-accurate computer generated animation brings dinosaurs back to life…in a big way!
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
In this documentary, we go back to the beginning and tell the origin story of Scotty the T. Rex and how it was discovered on that fateful day in 1991. We also showcase the lasting impact the discovery had on the town of Eastend and the Paleo world in Canada. In 2019, Scotty was proclaimed the biggest in the world. Believed to be a female, she measured over 13 m or just over 42.6 feet long and weighed over 8.8 metric tons. Discovered in the dinosaur-rich Frenchman Formation, Scotty's bones have been carefully preserved and are stored at the T. Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, Saskatchewan.
After discovering a new species of dinosaur on private land, Ruth is forced to contend with forces both big and small in her quest to get it out of the ground before anyone notices.
In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
The Dinosaur Echo is a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk about the renaissance of paleontology in Canada today and what dinosaurs can teach us about climate change. The film introduces us to a new generation of paleontolgists who are making extraordinary dinosaur discoveries in Alberta and British Columbia in Canada.
