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Planet Dinosaur: Original Series: Episode 1: Lost World

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New finds from Africa reveal some of the most spectacular dinosaurs ever known.

Series using the latest CGI and cutting-edge research to reveal the secrets of the dinosaurs. In this episode, a carcharodontosaurus and spinosaurus fight to the death.

From the deadliest killers to the biggest and strangest beasts, Planet Dinosaur brings to life a new and terrifying world of dinosaurs. 

More dinosaurs have been discovered in the last two decades than the past 200 years. This series uses the latest CGI and cutting-edge research to reveal the deadly secrets of these new giants. 

For the first time on British television, the very latest dino discoveries have been brought together and brought to life in this groundbreaking series, which features a cast of new dinosaurs that will feed the nation's nightmares. The next generation of children aren't going to be talking about the Tyrannosaurus rex; they are about to meet far bigger, badder, more vicious characters that roamed the Earth 95 million years ago. 

The series starts in north Africa, where two of the world's biggest predators once battled for supremacy. At 13m and seven tonnes, the carcharodontosaurus was a huge beast, a gigantic lizard-like carnivore with shark-like teeth over six inches long. It was an efficient hunter that would slash at its prey until it bled to death. 

But the discovery of an upper jaw in Morocco revealed an even bigger carnivorous killer - spinosaurus. Four metres longer than Tyrannosaurus rex, spinosaurus is thought to have been one of the biggest killers to ever walk the Earth. But unlike the meat-eating carcharodontosaurus, spinosaurus mainly ate fish, living and hunting almost exclusively in the water. 

Like all predators that share an environment, the two may once have had to compete for food. Planet Dinosaur takes a look at what one such deadly battle may have looked like and finds out which giant beast would have been most likely to survive a fight to the death.

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Come face-to-face with the biggest, deadliest and weirdest dinosaurs to walk the Earth.

Planet Dinosaur tells the stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.

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