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At 00:00:06,120, Character said: This is one of the most awesome
dinosaurs ever discovered.

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At 00:00:11,480, Character said: Meet Spinosaurus,

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At 00:00:13,920, Character said: a truly amazing predator that
lived 95 million years ago.

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At 00:00:22,840, Character said: In the dinosaur world,
this is the Terminator,

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At 00:00:26,880, Character said: at a stunning 17 metres in length
and 12 tonnes in weight.

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At 00:00:34,000, Character said: Spinosaurus is one of
the largest predators

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At 00:00:36,440, Character said: to have ever walked the planet.

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At 00:00:40,800, Character said: It lived in North Africa.

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At 00:00:43,560, Character said: Here, it's roaming a swamp,

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At 00:00:46,040, Character said: but this hunter's favourite prey
lived elsewhere.

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At 00:00:53,480, Character said: HISS

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At 00:00:54,480, Character said: Spinosaurus's meal of choice
was fish, not meat.

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At 00:01:03,280, Character said: This is a dinosaur that loved
to hunt in water.

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At 00:01:07,800, Character said: Standing in the river shallows,
Spinosaurus plays a waiting game.

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At 00:01:14,520, Character said: It's on the lookout
for one of these.

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At 00:01:16,920, Character said: Onchopristis, a giant
eight-metre long swordfish.

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At 00:01:22,280, Character said: There's enough fresh sushi there
for a whole Japanese restaurant.

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At 00:01:30,480, Character said: You can find this kind of hunting
going on in the wild today.

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At 00:01:34,400, Character said: This grizzly bear
loves a bit of raw fish too.

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At 00:01:38,680, Character said: He and his mates know that thousands
of juicy salmon are swimming

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At 00:01:41,760, Character said: up river, and they're waiting
for a meal to come their way.

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At 00:01:47,160, Character said: And their super-quick reactions mean
they can catch this fish in mid-air.

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At 00:01:55,360, Character said: But how do we know that Spinosaurus
was as partial to fish

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At 00:01:58,600, Character said: as that grizzly bear?

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At 00:02:01,680, Character said: By looking at the evidence,
that's how.

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At 00:02:05,040, Character said: These are the tooth sockets
in a Spinosaurus's jaw.

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At 00:02:09,000, Character said: It was found
in 2005 in North Africa.

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At 00:02:12,800, Character said: Stuck in one of the sockets
is a tiny piece of backbone

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At 00:02:15,600, Character said: from another creature.

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At 00:02:19,560, Character said: This spino clearly didn't brush
his teeth before he went to bed!

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At 00:02:23,400, Character said: That bone fragment was from a
swordfish, possibly Onchopristis.

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At 00:02:29,120, Character said: These juicy fish were one
of Spinosaurus's favourite foods.

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At 00:02:33,720, Character said: And, a bit like a bored angler,

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At 00:02:36,520, Character said: Spino would spend hours waiting for
these tasty river treats to swim by.

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At 00:02:42,000, Character said: Here was a beast that loved poking
its snout into a fast-flowing river.

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At 00:02:48,320, Character said: And Spinosaurus's way of catching
fish is really clever.

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At 00:02:51,960, Character said: Its secret lies in that snout.

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At 00:02:54,160, Character said: It has lots of small holes in it
that are very similar

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At 00:02:58,320, Character said: to those of a crocodile.

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At 00:03:05,840, Character said: In a crocodile, these snout holes
contain special sensors.

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At 00:03:09,480, Character said: These help the croc to feel
small changes of pressure

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At 00:03:12,280, Character said: caused by other creatures
disturbing the water nearby.

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At 00:03:16,960, Character said: That signal is one of the ways
it zeroes in on prey.

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At 00:03:25,240, Character said: And dinosaur experts believe
that the Spinosaurus had sensors

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At 00:03:29,040, Character said: like the crocodile,
an amazing ability that meant

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At 00:03:33,760, Character said: it could strike at these
onchopristis

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At 00:03:35,960, Character said: without even seeing them.

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At 00:03:56,680, Character said: Take a look at this
amazing creature.

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At 00:04:00,320, Character said: A flying monster,
its name is Hatzegopteryx.

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At 00:04:04,480, Character said: This is a kind of prehistoric
flying reptile called a pterosaur

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At 00:04:09,640, Character said: and it's one of the largest flying
creatures ever known.

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At 00:04:16,640, Character said: This mind-blowingly massive beast

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At 00:04:18,960, Character said: patrolled the skies
65 million years ago.

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At 00:04:23,480, Character said: At that time, Europe was made up
of lots of islands, one of which

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At 00:04:27,680, Character said: was called Hatzeg, which is how
this monster gets its name.

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At 00:04:32,480, Character said: And it really is a monster.

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At 00:04:36,760, Character said: Hatzegopteryx was over
five metres tall

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At 00:04:40,480, Character said: and had an enormous
ten metre wide wingspan.

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At 00:04:46,320, Character said: That's as big as this modern
jet fighter.

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At 00:04:51,280, Character said: Hatzegopteryx was an
incredible flying machine.

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At 00:04:55,000, Character said: But it preferred to
hunt on the ground.

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At 00:05:02,720, Character said: It could gobble up these much
smaller herbivores with ease.

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At 00:05:08,200, Character said: Usually, long-necked sauropods,
like these magyarosaurs,

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At 00:05:13,000, Character said: were the biggest beasts
in the dinosaur world.

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At 00:05:17,000, Character said: Here, though,
they're dwarfed by Hatzegopteryx.

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At 00:05:23,480, Character said: How do we know that a flying reptile
could actually get this big?

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At 00:05:28,560, Character said: By taking a look at the evidence,
that's how.

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At 00:05:36,680, Character said: These are the fossilised
footprints of a pterosaur,

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At 00:05:39,720, Character said: very like Hatzegopteryx.

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At 00:05:42,680, Character said: Discovered in 2002, they measure
a massive 35 centimetres across,

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At 00:05:48,400, Character said: proving that these
creatures could be huge.

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At 00:05:53,800, Character said: Imagine, if the hatzegopteryx
were around today,

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At 00:05:57,840, Character said: it would be three times bigger than
the world's largest flying bird,

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At 00:06:01,560, Character said: the wandering albatross.

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At 00:06:04,320, Character said: And when it landed on the ground,
it would be as tall as a giraffe.

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At 00:06:15,520, Character said: Take a look at this
condor from South America.

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At 00:06:18,000, Character said: This bird glides a bit like Hatze.

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At 00:06:21,040, Character said: A condor's wings take advantage of
warm air currents called thermals.

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At 00:06:25,680, Character said: They help it stay in the air
for hours on end.

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At 00:06:29,160, Character said: Dinosaur experts believe pterosaurs
like Hatzegopteryx

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At 00:06:32,960, Character said: could do the same.

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At 00:06:54,080, Character said: If you thought Tyrannosaurus rex
was an impressive dinosaur,

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At 00:06:58,960, Character said: take a look at this
prehistoric predator.

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At 00:07:06,600, Character said: This is Carcharodontosaurus.

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At 00:07:08,480, Character said: ROAR

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At 00:07:10,120, Character said: Its name means
"shark-toothed lizard".

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At 00:07:14,640, Character said: This monster grew up
to 13 metres long.

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At 00:07:19,360, Character said: An adult weighed a hefty
seven tonnes.

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At 00:07:22,960, Character said: It ruled the roost in North Africa
95 million years ago.

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At 00:07:28,000, Character said: ROAR

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At 00:07:30,200, Character said: Carcharodontosaurus
was a carnivore,

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At 00:07:32,640, Character said: and a whole ton heavier than T-Rex.

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At 00:07:37,360, Character said: How much meat do you think
a killer of this size ate each day?

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At 00:07:43,720, Character said: The amazing answer is that a
full-grown carcharodontosaurus

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At 00:07:48,600, Character said: needed to eat a whopping 60
kilograms of meat every day

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At 00:07:53,560, Character said: just to survive.

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At 00:07:55,160, Character said: That's like having
480 hamburgers every day.

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At 00:08:00,840, Character said: Now, the carcharodontosaurus
liked to hunt

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At 00:08:03,840, Character said: by creeping up slowly on its prey.

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At 00:08:07,920, Character said: But amazingly,
for such a large beast,

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At 00:08:10,480, Character said: we've recently discovered that
it could really move it too.

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At 00:08:15,360, Character said: Watch this.

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At 00:08:21,400, Character said: Over short distances, this hunter's
explosively powerful legs

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At 00:08:25,160, Character said: could get it running
up to 20 miles an hour.

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At 00:08:28,200, Character said: That meant it could catch lighter
prey like this ouranosaurus.

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At 00:08:37,560, Character said: So, where would you have found
one of these ruthless killers?

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At 00:08:41,560, Character said: Most of the 95 million-year-old
carcharodontosaurus bones

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At 00:08:47,200, Character said: have been found in various
sites across North Africa.

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At 00:08:53,160, Character said: Life for these big killers was
a constant battle. For food...

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At 00:08:59,040, Character said: For territory...

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At 00:09:01,240, Character said: For dominance over
other carcharodontosaurs.

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At 00:09:11,040, Character said: ROAR

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At 00:09:12,400, Character said: But how can we tell this kind of
head-to-head battle went on?

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At 00:09:18,240, Character said: By closely looking at
the evidence, that's how.

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At 00:09:23,080, Character said: This is a recently
discovered lower jaw bone.

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At 00:09:27,240, Character said: It came from a meat-eating dinosaur.

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At 00:09:29,960, Character said: It's big, nearly half a metre long,
and the exciting...