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| The Beasts are Back! Discovery Channel Presents the Premiere of Dinosaurs: Return to Life |
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on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 03:22 PM |
Today’s scientists are recreating dinosaurs through genetic engineering. Sounds like science fiction? Not any longer. Premiering Sun., Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT, Discovery Channel presents the premiere of Dinosaurs: Return to Life, a startling one-hour special that virtually turns back the clock to the Jurassic period and recreates the dinosaurs that ruled the planet 200 million years ago.
Through rapid advances in genetics, scientists are discovering the genetic traits of dinosaurs in the DNA of birds. They are showing that it is possible to bring back teeth, long tails and hands in place of wings. In Dinosaurs: Return to Life, learn why the dream of recreating the dinosaur genome is coming closer to reality.
Dinosaurs: Return to Life follows an encore presentation of Mammals Vs. Dinosaurs: Rise of the Mammals at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT. This International Emmy® Award-nominated special chronicles the evolutionary battle between mammals and dinosaurs. On the dinosaur side, discoveries reveal that the great beasts were social animals living and hunting in packs; while other species evolved into bird-like animals with the sky as their domain. Mammals on the other hand, with greater adaptability, prospered despite their small size. A shorter life span allows for faster evolutionary changes and that lead to new species that could adjust to a changing world. In the end, mammals’ flexibility and variety ensured their survival. Ultimately, dinosaurs were defeated, not by mammals, but by a huge meteor collision with Earth 65 millions of years ago. Dinosaurs couldn’t adjust to the radically changed world and mammals began their rise to the top.
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