NOVA: The Four-Winged Dinosaur
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Actor: NovaDirector: Nova
Brand: Wgbh Wholesale
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 56 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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- Long ago in the age of dinosaurs, a volcano in eastern China erupted and buried a host of strange creatures in ash, creating exquisite fossils that preserved a big surprise, many dinosaurs were covered in feathers. In The Four-Winged Dinosaur, NOVA investigates the most bizarre of these feathered dinosaurs, which has rekindled a fierce, decades long debate over the origin of bird flight. Form
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DVD Review: a missing link
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently, the internet has an article on a deer that has one horn in the middle of its head. It's probably just a deformity, but it gets folks excited because it makes us think about unicorns. Well, here, viewers' imaginations get to go wild because scientists have found a dinosaur that had four wings.
This work does a great job in peeling the onion. It asks if this is proof that birds descended from dinosaurs. It questions whether this animal flew or glided. Were its feathered legs for flight, or insulation and breeding. The question comes up: did birds start flying from the ground up or were they in the trees and just adapted to traveling at a height?
The term "missing link" does eventually come up in the work. However, these fossils were preserved well because a volcano covered up every nearby living thing so well and the narrator never says, "like Pompeii." They show a fossil of a mammal and that really had me curious, as humans are in that group, but they just touch the topic and move on.
From a descriptive point, this work had highs and lows. It had animated drawings that were more explanatory to me than CGI, but it had some CGI too. At one point, they show recreations that looked practically like Muppets and they could have used something better. You know how it's delightful the way these documentaries can take an ancient Egyptian skull and determine what the person would have looked like in the flesh? This works the same way because artists have helped the scientists to build a model of this bird/dino and they have it looking vibrant.
Like language trees, they show a tree displaying how beings separated from each other. It said crocodiles and dinosaurs broke from each other a long time ago. Wow! I had no idea about that. It pointed to branches where the creatures may have had feathers compared to those that probably didn't.
I'm struggling with whether little children will like this work. As many knows, little kids love them some dinosaurs, thus the success of those dumb "Land Before Time" films. However, this work may ask and answer questions that are to advanced for younger viewers.
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