"When Dinosaurs Ruled"

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

With thanks to Dan Varner and Larry Dunn for the heads up on
this new series of programs on dinosaurs, more information on the 
episodes, which will be broadcast on TLC, can be found at:
http://eagle.online.discovery.com/exp/fossilzone/tunein.html

Some excerpts:

Ground Zero
World Premiere
August 23 at 9 p.m. and midnight
August 29 at 1 p.m.
CHINA: Land of the Dragons -- More than mere legend, an ancient 
Chinese text describes the discovery of real-life dragon bones as
 far back as A.D. 265. For the first time, WHEN DINOSAURS 
RULED goes in search of the dragon, charting 1,800 years of 
dinosaur discoveries, including the most recent.  <SNIP>

The Real Jurassic Park
World Premiere
August 23 at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
August 29 at 2 p.m.
ARGENTINA: Land of the Giants -- Search the rocky slopes of the 
Andes Mountains with paleontologist Martin Vince as he discovers 
evidence of the world's smallest dinosaurs. <SNIP>
(The program also features some of the larger dinosaurs found in 
Argentina.)
  
The Land That Time Forgot
World Premiere
August 24 at 9 p.m. and midnight
August 29 at 3 p.m.
AUSTRALIA: Dinosaur Deep Freeze -- Gondwanaland, the great 
southern continent, joined the vast continents of Australia, 
Antarctica, Africa and South America. Yet incredibly, the discovery 
of dinosaur fossils in places like the frozen wastelands of the
Beardmore Glacier shows that this region provided dinosaurs 
with a refuge to cheat extinction and outlive other dinosaurs. 
<SNIP>
(Features Tom Rich.)

At the Ends of the Earth
World Premiere
August 24 at 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
August 29 at 4 p.m.
AFRICA: Dinosaur Graveyard -- Travel to Tanzania, where a massive 
German expedition took 900 people into the bush in search of 
dinosaur treasures. In four years, more than 4,300 loads of bones 
were dug up and nine families of dinosaurs were found.  <SNIP>
(Features Paul Sereno)

Birth of the Giants
World Premiere
August 25 at 9 p.m. and midnight
August 29 at 5 p.m.
AMERICA: Dinosaur Battleground -- Join America's leading 
paleontologists Bob Bakker, Jim Kirkland and Phil Currie as they 
travel North America and England to trace the rise and fall of the 
dinosaur as we know it in America.  <SNIP>
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Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com