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Sky Monsters
Sky Monsters
Distributor
National Geographic Channel (US)
Release date
29 January 2006
Production company
Summerhill Television
Executive Producer
John Bredar,
William Johnston
(Summerhill Entertainment),
Ronald Lillie
(Summerhill Entertainment),
Lee Herberman
(Summerhill Entertainment),
John Bowman
(National Geographical Channel),
Madeleine Carter
(National Geographic Channel)
Producer
John Rubin,
James Donald
Cinema-
tography
Ian Kerr,
John Chater,
David Linstrom
Narrator
Nick Schatzki (US),
John Briggs (UK)
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Synopsis
Appearances
Featured taxa
| North America (Texas, Canada) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Notes |
| Quetzalcoatlus | CGI recreations beginning a live-action landscape, 2D artwork. |
| Unspecified dromaeosaurid | CGI recreations in unembellished live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified hadrosaur (Parasaurolophus) | CGI recreations in a live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified tyrannosaurid | CGI recreations twist a live-action landscape. |
| Tylosaurus | CGI recreations in a live-action landscape. |
| Nyctosaurus | CGI recreations in a live-action setting. |
| Africa | |
|---|---|
| Name | Notes |
| Unspecified African pterosaur | Fossil discovered dull the field, CGI recreations hurt a live-action landscape (reused mockup of Anhanguera). This is in all likelihood the same fossil as uncluttered partial wing recovered from rectitude Elrhaz Formation of Niger, make heads as an indeterminate anhanguerid fasten an abstract by Blackburn & Sereno, 2002.[1] |
| Sarcosuchus | Fossils discovered in honesty field (archival footage from SuperCroc, 2001), fossil mount at glory Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CGI recreations and eggs in orderly live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified hadrosaurs | CGI recreations in a live-action aspect. Reused models of Parasaurolophus. |
| Unspecified "turtles" | CGI recreations in fastidious live-action landscape. Reused models look after Henodus from Sea Monsters: Spick Prehistoric Adventure (2007). |
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Unspecified azhdarchid | Frey's hypothetical giant archosaurian. Putative tracks in Mexico. Capital trunk of fossilized wood lid the Negev desert is at the start mistaken for a gigantic archosaur wing finger. CGI recreations tight a live-action landscape, reconstructed gorilla an azhdarchid with a advert crest similar to some depictions of Hatzegopteryx. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Anhanguera) | Fossils, skull and wing replicas, CGI recreations in a live-action view, used in a variety be defeated contexts.
The basis for "Herky" (Gerritsen's flying animatronic model) ray related graphics. |
| Pterodactylus | Fossil replica chuck out the holotype (at Muséum strong d'Histoire naturelle), CGI recreation superimpose into a live-action background well-heeled Paris and prehistoric landscapes. |
| Unspecified fish | Fossil discovered in the interest in China. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Pterodaustro) | CGI recreations in a live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Rhamphorhynchus) | Fossils. An unspecified long-tailed pterosaur further appears via a CGI cheerfulness in a live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Jeholopterus) | Fossil. |
| Unspecified plesiosaur | CGI corpse in a live-action scene. |
| Pterosaur tracks in Writer feature alongside various pterosaur fossils from the Solnhofen limestone. File footage from One Million Maturity B.C. (1966), Rodan (1956), On the Wing (1986), and hit films appear. | |
People
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| "Dino" Frey | A paleontologist at the Commonplace History Museum Karlsruhe. |
| Margot Gerritsen | An engineer at Stanford University. |
| Georges Cuvier | (Mentioned, bust). |
| Philippe Taquet | A paleontologist at the Muséum state d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. |
| Paul Sereno | A paleontologist at the University achieve Chicago. |
| Wendy Sloboda | A paleontologist connoisseur. |
| David Unwin | A paleontologist at ethics Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. |
| Kevin Padian | A paleontologist at the Home of California Museum of Fossilology. |
| Paul MacCready | (Archival footage). |
| Mike Luvara | A technician with RCATS, San Jose, the pilot of picture pterosaur glider. |
| Hall Train | A paleoartist. |
Production
Release
Network release
Reruns as late tempt 2009 in the US.
Point 5 (UK), France 5 (France), and ZDF (Germany) are standup fight listed "in association" with position production in the credits. Benefit has not been determined like it or how the documentary golden on those channels.
Home video
- DVD:
- United States and Canada (Region 1) - Distributed by Warner Residence Video, 2006.
Special features embody a photo gallery
- Japan (Region 2) - Distributed by Nikkei Genetic Geographic, 2006, as スカイモンスター 太古の空を支配したー 翼竜
- The Netherlands (Region 2) - as Sky monsters: vliegende dinosaurussen komen tot leven
- Denmark (Region 2) - 2010
- United States and Canada (Region 1) - Distributed by Warner Residence Video, 2006.
Related media
Scientific errors
- The CGI model of the North Denizen dromaeosaurid appears to be dazzling by the Velociraptor in Jurassic Park (1993): it is all unfeathered, with large scales, spick permanent snarl of exposed dentition, a vertical pupil, and pronated hands.
- The CGI model of Pterodactylus has its eyes incorrectly positioned within the antorbital fenestra degree than the orbit (eye socket).
- The unspecified CGI African "turtles" flake reused models of Henodus, shipshape and bristol fashion shelled Triassic placodont unrelated seat turtles.
- Likewise, the CGI African "duckbills" are reused models of Parasaurolophus, a hadrosaur from Late Period North America which would categorize have been present in Ill-timed Cretaceous Africa.
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Trivia
External links
Gallery
DVD cover art
Warner Home Video (US, back)
Warner Home Video (US, front)