The dinosaur village | DW Documentary
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Published 2019-10-19
Forty-five years ago, geologist Dr. Thomas Martens discovered the first dinosaur bones in an old quarry near Tambach-Dietharz. Since then, he has located 40 skeletons belonging to 12 different primordial dinosaur species, as well a number of insect and plant fossils. A 26cm-long lizard looks like a miniature of the famous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex. Two amphibians of the Seymouria genus lying next to each other are also an important discovery. They all originate from the Lower Permian around 290 million years ago. Similar remains have been found in Texas, Utah and New Mexico in the USA and American colleagues have been coming to Thuringia every summer to excavate for the last two decades. Together, the palaeontologists have unearthed further proof that all of today’s continents were once connected and formed the primeval continent of Pangaea. The scientists are part of a great Thuringian research tradition. Both the first dinosaur skeleton and the first slabs of rock containing saurian fossil remains were found there.
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All Comments (20)
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DW please give me a heart. I don't have a particularly intelligent remark to make but I do love your documentaries.
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Really amazing documentary. I love that you didn't sensationalize anything and you didn't dumb down the science. I'm used to watching American documentaries that are too heavy on drama and too light on science. Danke!
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This is an excellent documentary that takes you to one of the least discussed periods in tetrapod evolution. It takes you beyond the dinosaurs to an era in which the differences between reptiles and dinosaurs had not yet developed. Amazing and very informative. Thank you.
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Tyrannosaurus in Germany is a pretty interesting documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!
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Awesome documentary. So satisfying to watch a show like this where people find a site in the permian period. Paleontology is my dream job!
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As an archaeologist I tell ya: Archaeologists don't dig dinosaurs. Palaeontologists do
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Thanks so much for presenting this fascinating documentary!
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Germany needs to make more documentary like this, this is much better than the hollywood melodrama nonsense we get in anglophone countries.
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German T-Rex were known as being more orderly and efficient than other T-Rex. But had less sense-of-humor than did other sub-species of T-Rex.
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WOW! Glad I stumbled over this one. Thank you DW. Happiness is gently tapping rocks!
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Your company makes/picks wonderful documentaries
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Very interesting documentary. Those time scales are always stunning to me. Those millions of years.. just mind boggling. A LOT has happened since then. It makes you humble.
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DW produces some of the best documentaries on the planet.
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16:09 Me in the morning after a long night out with friends
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We found fossile crustacions and plants when my parents built their house about 20 kilometers east of Hamburg in Northern Germany. I was interested in prehistorics eversince.
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Finally good documentary from DW
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Excellent Documentary.
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I really enjoy watching your documentaries, even though I don't always have time to watch them👏👏👏
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Im 45 and I seriously love dinosaurs! 😉
