''Dinosaurs Alive!'' is a 2007
IMAX
IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating.
Graeme F ...
documentary produced by Giant Screen Films about various
dinosaurs that inhabited the
Earth between 251 and 65
Ma. The documentary features animals from the
Triassic period of
New Mexico to the
Cretaceous period of
Mongolia, as well as the
American Museum of Natural History's research on both periods.
Featured Animals
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Protoceratops''
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Velociraptor''
* Unidentified
pterosaurs
Pterosaurs (; from Greek ''pteron'' and ''sauros'', meaning "wing lizard") is an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order, Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to ...
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Kepodactylus
''Kepodactylus'' is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian- Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States.
In 1992, a team from the Denver Museum of Natural History dug ...
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Seismosaurus
''Diplodocus'' (, , or ) was a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs, whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston. The generic name, coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, is a neo-Latin term derived from Greek διπΠ...
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Tarbosaurus''
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Tarchia''
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Pinacosaurus'' (mentioned)
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Oviraptor''
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Confuciusornis''
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Sinosauropteryx'' (shown)
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Microraptor'' (shown)
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Sinornithosaurus'' (shown)
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Effigia''
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Coelophysis''
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Postosuchus
''Postosuchus'', meaning "Crocodile from Post", is an extinct genus of rauisuchid reptiles comprising two species, ''P. kirkpatricki'' and ''P. alisonae'', that lived in what is now North America during the Late Triassic. ''Postosuchus'' is a me ...
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Redondasaurus''
See also
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Dinosaurs of Antarctica
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...
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Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
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Dinosaur Planet
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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous
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Walking with Dinosaurs
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envi ...
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America
''When Dinosaurs Roamed America'' (sometimes shortened to ''When Dinosaurs Roamed'' outside of the U.S.) is a two-hour American television program (produced in the style of a traditional nature documentary) that first aired on the Discovery Chann ...
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Dinosaurs Alive (attraction), a former kid's area at various Cedar Fair theme parks.
External links
Official websiteBig Movie ZoneFilm Journal Review
Documentary films about dinosaurs
IMAX short films
2007 3D films
3D short films
IMAX documentary films
3D documentary films
2000s English-language films
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