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The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth.

The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using incredible fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.

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Planet Dinosaur: Original Series: Episode 6: The Great Survivors

The Great Survivors

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Episode 6: The Great Survivors

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A look at dinosaurs' ability to survive and adapt in the face of adversity.

The documentary series explores dinosaurs' extraordinary ability to survive, and features the magyarosaurus, which showed an amazing adaptation to island life.

The final episode explores dinosaurs' extraordinary ability to survive. Featured dinosaurs include the bizarre magyarosaurus, which lived in the shadow of the biggest flying animal - hatzegopteryx - and showed an amazing adaptation to island life; and the weird nothronychus, a carnivore that gave up meat eating. 

This astonishing capacity to evolve into ever more diverse and bizarre forms meant that dinosaurs not only spread throughout the world, but also dominated life upon it for more than 160 million years. It was only an unprecedented extraterrestrial event that finally saw the end of planet dinosaur.

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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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