Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
• VHS Release Date: May 13, 1997
• Run Time: 119 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304438133
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,063 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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In 1922 American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews led the first Western archeological expedition into Mongolia's Gobi Desert and uncovered one of the richest dinosaur graveyards in the world. A changing political climate forced him to leave before he had even scratched the surface of this buried treasure; only since the fall of Communism have Western scientists been allowed back. This hour-long National Geographic video traces the 1997 journey of two paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History as they retrace Chapman's steps and unearth some groundbreaking finds of their own. Among these fossils is the skeleton of a female oviraptor and her nest of a dozen eggs, which may represent a link in the evolutionary chain that leads from dinosaurs to birds. The chronicle of the contemporary dig is interspersed with archival footage from Chapman's expedition and impressive 3-D animation that re-creates what the desert may have looked like when oviraptors, ankylosaurs, protoceratops, and other dinosaurs made it their home. --Larisa Lomacky Moore

Product Description

More than 80 million years ago, the Oviraptor, a strange bird-like dinosaur walked the sandy banks of an oasis in what is now Mongolia's Gobi desert. A creature that measured some 8 feet in length, its razor claws were deadly weapons of protection, guarding its offspring from constant danger. Now, join a daring expedition of scientists from the American Museum of National History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences as they uncover a treasure-trove of fossils, shattering long-held myths about this dinosaur's behavior. Through spectacular on-location filming and state-of-the-art computer animation, National Geographic takes you on a journey to a lost world in DINOSAUR HUNTERS.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for old and young, April 14, 2005

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Traci (MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic's Dinosaur Hunters [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I really like how this movie delves into what our best hypotheses are concerning the oviraptor and how we construct that knowledge. It also does a wonderful job delving into what it is like to be a paleontologist. My almost 5 and almost 3 year olds just got this from the library and have watched it twice now. They love it, especially my olmost 5 year old (a girl who prefers dinosaurs over princesses). I appreciate the focus on the quest for knowldge and the fact that there isn't a whole bunch of sensationalism. Really thinking about how we know about dinosaurs and what they must have been like is exciting. This movie stays there and doesn't go for the dinos eating dino approach that lots of other movies take. This movie really is interesting and educational for the whole family.

5.0 out of 5 stars Them bones, them bones, them dry bones of the Gobi excite!, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: National Geographic's Dinosaur Hunters [VHS] (VHS Tape)

National Geographic does it again! Exceptionally valuable footage of the American Museum of Natural History's car & camel expedition from Peking into the heart of Mongolia in the 1920's is presented as background to this documentary coverage of the most recent American expeditions into the Gobi. The excitement of discovery of new fossil fields and a light hearted peak into the life of dinosaurs is most entertaining and informative. Additionally, the independent country of Mongolia, known to traveler's as Outer Mongolia to differentiate from the Chinese occupied "Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region", provides paleontologists with the most varied and highest quality dinosaur and mammal fossils known anywhere. Though old bones were never an interest of mine, nor have I every been attracted to films like Jurassic Park, this adventure made me eager to pack my bags and jump the next camel train to Mongolia. And not just to look for dinosaur bones. Mongolia is also one of the few unspoiled parts of the globe and only recently freed from the isolation imposed on it by the former Soviet Union. Well worth a look!