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Miniseries "Prehistoric Planet" » Coasts
00:42:04
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Nouns
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mosasaur
Turtles are normally on a mosasaur's menu.
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updraft
The cliff edge creates updraft, and they can help.
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cephalopod
As with most cephalopod,
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mollusk
Ammonites are mollusk, related to octopus and squid.
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underbelly
If he can just get to the underbelly,
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shoal
where huge shoal of fish come close to the shore.
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plankton
In the deep, these lights may help lure plankton as food.
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beak
The dagger beak of Phosphatodraco.
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seaweed
Beneath this pile of seaweed, something is stirring.
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brood
But this brood would make a welcome snack.
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fertilization
After fertilization,
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ballast
They need the stones to act both as ballast and as gizzard stones.
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octopus
Ammonites are mollusks, related to octopus and squid.
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pebble
Pebbles that are particularly smooth, hard, and rounded.
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dagger
The dagger beak of Phosphatodraco.
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reptile
In the seas, monstrous reptile patrol the depths.
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plunge
But no one seems quite ready to take the plunge.
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instinct
Their first instinct is to climb.
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algae
forming partnerships with algae that grow within their tissues.
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waterfall
Here, however, in the pool at the bottom of a waterfall,
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lizard
A giant marine lizard over twice the size of a tyrannosaur
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sponge
covered with sponge, clams and corals.
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scrub
nothing but an all-over body scrub will do.
Verbs
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encrust
Myriads of these marine creatures encrust the solid rock.
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entwine
As couples entwine, they coordinate their light displays.
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submerge
Rising sea level means that there are countless submerge islands
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shatter
Mosasaurs have been found with the shatter teeth of rivals
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propel
They propel themselves with all four fins and travel almost effortlessly
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stalk
A nine-foot-tall predator that stalk through these colonies,
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stricken
The apparently stricken female is a tempting target.
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embed
embed in their skulls.
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thrive
One kind of animal thrive in such places and forms immense colonies.
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isolate
Isolated cliffs like this are ideal.
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snatch
The old male snatch a breath.
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lag
She and her two-year-old calf are lag behind the rest of the group.
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reject
If he can't match her precise rhythm, he'll be reject.
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smell
It's dead, and the tyrannosaur has smell its rotting body.
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patrol
In the seas, monstrous reptiles patrol the depths.
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gather
Hatchlings from hundreds of nests gather on the cliff-top
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fork
Mosasaurs are giant lizards and have both a lizard's fork tongue,
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trigger
Neighbor trigger neighbor, creating waves of bioluminescence.
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relate
Ammonites are mollusks, relate to octopus and squid.
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lie
They need to get to the mist forest that lie beyond.
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split
that split North America.
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catch
Powerful, predatory pterosaurs that normally catch fish.
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draw
But this is the one that has draw him here.
Adverbs
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surprisingly
But one rock here appears surprisingly bare.
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wherever
Wherever land meets sea,
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occasionally
must occasionally visit the coast for a very particular purpose.
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apparently
The apparently stricken female is a tempting target.
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effectively
could still defend itself very effectively.
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normally
Turtles are normally on a mosasaur's menu.
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extremely
Their bones are extremely light, up to 90% air,
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certainly
and certainly one of the most famous, is a dinosaur.
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nearly
a type of huge marine reptile nearly 30 feet long.
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alone
And they're not alone.
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particularly
Pebbles that are particularly smooth, hard, and rounded.
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perhaps
coastal life reaches perhaps its greatest diversity.
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quite
But no one seems quite ready to take the plunge.
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especially
It's especially rich here in the North Atlantic,
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almost
They propel themselves with all four fins and travel almost effortlessly
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soon
And soon there are thousands in each shoal.
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enough
His offspring are now just old enough to follow him on a journey
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often
Tyrannosaurus rex often lose at least two-thirds
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far
Far more than even the largest continent.
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together
must first straighten and lock together, and that will take some hours.
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else
And if all else fails,
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ago
Planet Earth, 66 million years ago.
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ever
Surely one of the most remarkable animals that had ever existed,
Adjectives
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unguarded
looking for a chance to snatch an unguarded hatchling.
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inhospitable
in the most inhospitable places on Earth.
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evasive
One way to take evasive action is to simply fold their wings and drop.
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monstrous
In the seas, monstrous reptiles patrol the depths.
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drowned
In the waters off the drowned continent of Zealandia,
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tempting
The apparently stricken female is a tempting target.
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oceanic
home to oceanic predators…
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immense
One kind of animal thrives in such places and forms immense colonies.
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lethal
When they are as evenly matched as this, these battles can be lethal.
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shallow
these shallow coastal seas cover an area of 25 million square miles.
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promising
The beach, however, doesn't look very promising.
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keen
The young are keen for a taste, but he's not sharing it.
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remarkable
Surely one of the most remarkable animals that had ever existed,
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precise
If he can't match her precise rhythm, he'll be rejected.
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vulnerable
Diving to deeper water might make her less vulnerable.
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calm
The calm, dark nights that follow trigger a rare and beautiful event.
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nervous
They have complex nervous systems,
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bare
But one rock here appears surprisingly bare.
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apparent
This is the reason for the female's apparent distress.
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dangerous
It's a short enough crossing, but it can still be a dangerous one.
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usual
But one female is not swimming with her usual grace.
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smooth
Pebbles that are particularly smooth, hard, and rounded.
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suitable
But it's also a chance for his mother to find a suitable mate amongst the males.
