Giant Dinosaurs by Author’s Name [VHS]

I bought the blu-ray version of this along with two other dinosaur related blu-rays: Planet Dinosaur and March of the Dinosaurs. Although this isn’t a horrible show, I preferred the other two over this one. Clash of the dinosaurs consists of 4 episodes, but each episode pretty much uses the same CG scenes over and over again. It sometimes feels like they occasionally say the exact same thing over multiple episodes.

most of the interviews that occur inbetween the CG clips are quite lively and give some additional insight and expert opinion on the subject matter, but it doesn’t feel like it’s enough to justify all the repetitive visuals.

I think if you have to choose one, planet dinosaur, march of the dinosaurs or clash of the dinosaurs, you should go with planet dinosaur or march of the dinosaurs ahead of this one.

This was a great documentary to watch and it played well. Most enjoying.

I recognize that some of the criticisms of this product are credible, but this work also has substantial strengths as well as occasional shortcomings. My favorite episode is “the Defenders” which has a lot to say about armored dinosaurs and ceratopsians like triceratops. It also has the distinguished paleontologist Bob Bakker presenting his theories about the hadrasaur, parasaurolaphus using infrasound in herds as a unified defense against a predator. While this theory is too good not to include, I do not believe it has a large following yet. Another scene involving combat between a Tyrannosaurus and a Triceratops is particularly realistic and includes fight sequences based on important fossil evidence outlined in Gregory Paul’s THE PRINCETON FIELD GUIDE TO DINOSAURS. Specifically, this fight scene includes the T-rex tactic of biting and breaking the Triceratops’s horns to disarm it and struggling to prevent the other animal from spearing it in the process. It is also worth noting that the discovery of this tactic is an important data point indicating that Tyrannosaurs were not simply scavengers as has sometimes been postulated (if the interpretation of the fossils is correct). No need to break the horns on a dead carcass if that is your meal for the day. Future fossil finds may help to clarify this issue since we have only one example of such a fight (that I know of). In the meantime, I strongly recommend this series especially at the ridiculously low price.

A very well made documentary. Really informative and high quality special effects. This series goes in to much detail about the anatomy of dinosaurs and how they used this anatomy to hunt, fight, and defend themselves. The CGI is reused quite a bit, but it all fits nicely into the narrative of the story being told. No floating heads, just a single narrator makes it easy to really get caught up in the series and take in all the information presented. This series spun off the fantastic last days of the dinosaurs documentary and if you enjoyed either one of them you will enjoy the other. Most definitely one of my top 5 dinosaur documentary shows. Highly recommended.

A good and well done production of what scientists believe Dinosaurs lived like. Sadly, we cannot tell for sure, as there are only birds left of these mighty beasts. I do recommend this DVD to those interested in these long gone great animals.

1 DVD with four one-hour episodes in which many of the largest and most famous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period are discussed. For those NOT in the know, the Cretaceous is the last period of the history of the dinosaurs according to evolutionists. It takes place after the more famous Jurassic period and ends with the meteor impacting with Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula at Chicxulub. The four episode titles are the following: “Extreme Survivors,” which discusses, primarily, baby T-Rexes; “Perfect Preditors,” which focuses on the T-Rex, the Deinonychus and the largest animal known to have taken flight: the Quetzalcoatlus. Next is “The Defenders,” which looks at the herbivores: Triceratops (Ol’ three-horms), Ankylasaur (the armored but not too bright Cretaceous tank), Parasaurolophus, one of the duck-billed dinos, and Sauroposeidon, one of the largest sauropods to have ever lived. And finally, “Generations,” which examines the sexual and natural selection processes necessary for all of these aforementioned dinosaurs to have evolved.

I invest my hard-earned money in videos like this to learn what I can about the anatomy of dinosaurs. Specifically, what does direct examination of the fossil reveal about the animal, and the conclusions found in these videos are far too often weak. Even at their very best, because the various statements of conjecture they make, they do so as though it were fact, which undermines whatever other conclusions they do make that may be sound. If a statement is conjecture, speculation or just an educated guess, it does not undermine the conclusions as a whole to indicate what is conjecture and what is actually found in the fossil evidence. For example, the narration gives great details as to the biology of the actual eyeballs of the Quetzalcoatlus, the T-Rex and the Deinonychus. The problem is that an oculus does not fossilize. Clearly the writers are speculating, but based one what, they never say. There is much that they are able to prove regarding vision of all three that they make clear is proved by the fossil record. Right! Well done! But when it comes to the oculi of these animals, they illustrate, animate and reach conclusions but never show how they reached those conclusions, and they state these conclusions as though the are fact, which, in a court of law in Canada and the U. S. and U. K., is synonymous with lying.

Another one of the first things to strike me, consistently in each episode, is the insecurity of the writing and therefore, the narration of these videos. I noticed that the term “evolution” or one of its variants was used once in every 5-7 sentences (Even more often in the last episode), almost as though the writers themselves don’t believe what they’re saying. It feels as though they must keep saying it in order to convince themselves. It might also be that they know their evidence is weak regarding evolution and repeat the word or idea in order to keep those viewers who are less apt to be critical or to scrutinise believing what is said. I have learned to question everything and listen to these videos with great scepticism regarding their religion.

On the positive side, there are impressive conclusions that they show in which they display their proof, or they indicate that they are speculating. The powerful senses of the T-Rex are wonderfully illustrated and explained. The use of the crest of the Parasaurolophus was wonderfully explained, proved, analyzed, and illustrated both by graphics and by modern analogues. These are the things that they need to do more of.

Add to that the magnificent animation–the best I’ve seen of dinosaurs in any documentary yet–and you get some really excellent, high quality, fully digestible information for learning, and that’s the best part of it all.

My six year old loves it