| View Larger Image | Giant of the Skies | Video On DemandDirected By: Tim Haines, Jasper James
Also With: Tim Haines (Producer), Jasper James (Producer), Tomi Bednar Landis (Producer), John Lynch (Producer), Georgann Kane (Writer)
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| | Binding: | Video On Demand | | Run Time: | 30 minutes | | Studio: | BBC | | Release Date: | August 26, 2009 | | Genre: | Nonfiction | | Synopsis: | On a deserted beach lies the dead body of a giant pterosaur, an Ornithocheirus. With wingspans of up to 13 meters, these were the largest flying creatures ever. There is no sign of why this one died but over the course of the program, it is revealed how this King of the Sky met his end after undertaking an epic flight to find a mate. The program picks up several months earlier on a windy cliff edge on the coast of Brazil where the mating season has begun for a bizarre-looking pterosaur, Tapejara, is in full swing. On every ledge the males duck and bob their fantastic red crests to attract a mate. The solitary Ornithocheirus is here too, dwarfing the local inhabitants. He has ended up in Brazil after wandering thousands of miles in search of food but now he has to return home to his own mating ground in southern Europe. His flight takes him up the coast of Northern America. | | Sales Rank: | 12,593th |
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