The four-winged dinosaur
(DVD)

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Published
[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2008].
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Published
[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2008].
Format
DVD
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
UPC
783421424791

Notes

General Note
Special features: Printable materials for educators; access to the Nova Website.
Participants/Performers
Narrated by Lance Lewman.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally broadcast as segments of the television program Nova on February 26, 2008.
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, biomechanics, aerodynamics, animation, and scientific reconstruction to perform an unorthodox experiment: a wind tunnel flight test of a scientific replica of the ancient oddity. Dubbed Microraptor, the crow-sized fossil is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found and one of the most controversial, challenging conventional theories and assumptions about the evolution of flight.
Target Audience
Not rated.
System Details
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Language
Closed-captioned; Described video.

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