Dinosaur Britain - Episode 2 | ITV.ZigCOM.mp4

First shown: August 2015
English subtitles
Video: 896 x 504 / Audio: AAC 2.1



Terrifying ­dinosaurs are brought back to life to trample across Britain in this amazing two-­part documentary.

From sauropods the length of two double-decker buses to raptors and toothy iguanodons, they run wild around landmarks like Big Ben and Stonehenge.

Thank God it’s just some clever CGI – it was all starting to feel a bit Jurassic Park.

And we all know how that turned out.

“This country was once a ­paradise for dinosaurs with more than 50 different species living here,” says presenter Ellie Harrison.

“Here we tell the story of the dinosaurs that once roamed our country, revealing how they hunted, what they ate and how they died from the evidence revealed from their bones.”

Ellie has been fascinated by ­dinosaurs ever since she clapped eyes on Dippy the ­Diplodocus’s skeleton at London’s Natural History Museum.

She teams up with Dean Lomax, who, at 25, is one of Britain’s youngest palaeontologists to look at the ­creatures that roamed the planet 200 million years ago.

And they reveal how we identified dinosaurs as an entirely new species right here in Britain – apparently we have some of the best fossil records in the world.

There’s a huge claw discovered in Surrey that came from the ­baryonyx, which stalked our swamplands, and the first dinosaur bones ever, which turned up 40ft underground at a slate mine near Oxford.

And we hear from amateur fossil hunter David Sole, who happened upon the remains of a 13ft-long scelidosaurus, as you do, while wandering along ­Charmouth beach in Dorset.

Apart from the slightly laughable scenes of Ellie pretending to walk with dinosaurs, this is a fascinating romp through history.

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