David Attenborough joins palaeontologist Robert DePalma at the Tanis site in North Dakota as he unearths the story of the dinosaurs’ death in this thrilling documentary
DePalma kept his discovery secret before announcing the site’s existence in 2019, after which a BBC documentary team joined him at Tanis for three years.follows DePalma and his team of dinosaur-hunters as they unearth, fossil by fossil, the story of the dinosaurs’ deaths. David Attenborough is on hand to check the exhumed specimens over with fossil experts, and to explain what they tell us about the creatures’ final moments, armed with a healthy dose of dinosaur CGI.
The rhythm of the show is closer to a true crime whodunnit, with Attenborough poring over the Tanis fossils in darkly lit labs. As the jigsaw pieces fall into place – a reconstructed young pterosaur here, a fully preservedleg there – a clearer picture of Chicxulub’s aftermath begins to emerge. Mile-high tsunamis, superheated ejecta raising the air temperature by tens of degrees and a multiyear lack of sunlight are recreated and make for hellish viewing.
Though the documentary is about a day that occurred 66 million years ago, it is difficult not to draw comparisons with the climate future that might await us. “It’s possible that humanity is having as big an impact on the world as the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs,” says Attenborough. But he ends on a more hopeful note, saying humans are unique in their ability to learn from the past. “We must use that ability wisely.
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