Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs

Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs

60 mins | Documentary | Sept. 21, 2011

Dallas Campbell delves in to the Horizon archive to discover how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed over the past 40 years. From realising that lumbering swamp dwellers were really agile warm blooded killers, astonishing new finds, controversial theories and breakthrough technology have enabled scientists to rethink how they lived and solve the mystery of their disappearance. And they can even reveal whether dinosaurs might still be with us today.

Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs

60 mins | Documentary | Sept. 21, 2011

Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs
Dallas Campbell delves in to the Horizon archive to discover how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed over the past 40 years. From realising that lumbering swamp dwellers were really agile warm blooded killers, astonishing new finds, controversial theories and breakthrough technology have enabled scientists to rethink how they lived and solve the mystery of their disappearance. And they can even reveal whether dinosaurs might still be with us today.
Producers BBC
Original title Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs
Directors Penny Palmer
Writers

Cast

Dallas Campbell

as Himself - Presenter

Robert McNeill Alexander

as Himself - Leeds University (archive footage)

Luiz Alvarez

as Himself - University of California (archive footage)

David Archibald

as Himself - San Diego State University (archive footage) (as Prof David Archibald)

Claire Belcher

as Herself - Royal Holloway, University of London (archive footage)

Brent Breithaupt

as Himself - Palaeontologist (archive footage)

Chris Brochu

as Himself - University of Iowa (archive footage)

Julia Clarke

as Herself - Palaeontologist (archive footage)

Philip Currie

as Himself - Palaeontologist (archive footage)

Kristi Curry Rogers

as Herself - Palaeontologist (archive footage)

Cesare Emiliani

as Himself - Professor of Geology, University of Miami (archive footage)

Gregory Erickson

as Himself - Florida State University (archive footage)

Alan Feduccia

as Himself - University of California (archive footage)

Alan Hildebrand

as Himself - Geological Survey of Canada (archive footage)

Florence McGovern

as Herself - Fossil Dealer (archive footage)

Angela Milner

as Herself - Natural History Museum (archive footage)

Simon Conway Morris

as Himself - Evolutionary Palaeobiologist (archive footage)

John Ostrom

as Himself - Yale University (archive footage)

Tim Rowe

as Himself - University of Texas (archive footage)

Dale A. Russell

as Himself - Paleobiologist, National Museums of Canada (archive footage)