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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Armed with powerful beaks and talons, raptors are nature's killing force'winged predators whose beauty belies their speed. Dramatic footage from cameras mounted on their backs show why falcons, owls, eagles, and hawks are masters of the sky, and why engineers use their abilities and body designs as the basis of aircraft technology.
Publisher
Discovery Channel Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Provides a dinosaur's-eye view of survival in this violent primordial world. White Tip's journey: Follow the desperate trials of a velociraptor cut off from her pack in the desert. Pod's travels: A pyroraptor is swept away in a tidal wave and washes ashore on an island populated by much smaller dinosaurs.
6) Birds
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Talks about the many types of birds that exist, how they fly, their incredible eyesigh, how they evolved from ancient reptiles and the differences and similarities between birds and humans.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a top-secret laboratory is unexpectedly breached, thousands of rampaging raptors are unleashed on Los Angeles. A black-ops unit is mobilized to contain the creatures before they cause city-wide chaos. Simultaneously, a truckload of raptors is rerouted to a nearby prison. Upon their escape, these ferocious flesh-eaters are beyond containment. This is Jurassic judgment night for smoking hot sorority girls, sinister scientists, muscle-bound military...
9) Predators
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explains the behaviors and characteristics of different predatory creatures, including birds of prey, wolves, snakes and reptiles, wild cats, and insects.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the ultimate fighters of the Jurassic period, the gigantic beasts that stalked the earth millions of years ago. Some of these dinosaurs were larger than seven-story buildings and hunted their prey with strategy and cunning, transforming the prehistoric world into a battlefield. The temperature, terrain, and innate sense of the opponent's weaknesses and strengths all played a role in how each dinosaur planned its attack. Paleontologists are...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before. In this program, NOVA travels to the Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered - a famed fossil treasure-trove - and teams up with the world's leading figures in paleontology,...
Publisher
Echo Bridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Where the red fern grows: A young Oklahoma boy uses his own savings to buy two hunting dogs, which he grows to love.
The legend of Wolf Mountain: Kerrie, Casey and John have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. First, they were sent home from school and then they were accidentally kidnapped by a pair of ex-cons!
The proud rebel: John Chandler is traveling the country with his son, David, and their sheep dog, Lance, in search of a doctor who...
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