Preview | Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
Preview: Season 15 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Follow scientists trying to determine which giant animal was the apex predator
A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia, opened a window onto a previously unknown period of the earth’s history and a world teeming with giant creatures emerged. The biggest of all was Titanoboa a 43-foot snake, the largest that ever lived. But new discoveries in Cerrejon suggest that Titanoboa’s rule was challenged by a giant crocodilian.
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Preview | Graveyard of the Giant Beasts
Preview: Season 15 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia, opened a window onto a previously unknown period of the earth’s history and a world teeming with giant creatures emerged. The biggest of all was Titanoboa a 43-foot snake, the largest that ever lived. But new discoveries in Cerrejon suggest that Titanoboa’s rule was challenged by a giant crocodilian.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] On "Secrets of the Dead"... 58 million years ago, two giants engaged in an epic battle.
- [scientist 1] I had all kinds of wild ideas right away about how large that snake would've been.
- [scientist 2] This animal was almost 50 feet long.
- [scientist 3] The Cerrejon croc gets bigger than any crocodile that we have alive today.
- This animal essentially became dinosaur size.
- [Narrator] Which beast won the battle?
"Graveyard of the Giant Beasts," on "Secrets of the Dead."
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Bite Force of the Cerrejón Crocodile
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Scientists estimate the power of the Cerrejón crocodile's monstrous bite (3m 3s)
Discovery of the Giant Snake, Titanoboa
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Experts examined the bones of a giant snake they discovered at the Cerrejón mine. (3m 39s)
Which Giant Animal Was the Apex Predator?
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Follow scientists trying to determine which giant animal was the apex predator (1m 33s)
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