Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Discovery Channel
• VHS Release Date: March 17, 1998
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304887027
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,511 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Twenty-five million years ago, 50-foot-long, 50-ton ancestors of great white sharks terrorized the seas. How sea creatures developed into these oversized killers and why they died out is the subject of Sea Monsters, the first episode of this 73-minute video. In Back to the Seas, scientists look for a reason that mammals wound up in the earth's waters after evolving as land dwellers. Beginning with a much-ridiculed observation by Charles Darwin more than a century ago and eventually supported by a series of skeleton finds in the 1980s and 1990s, narrator Ben Gazarra takes viewers on a fascinating paleontologic ride back to the moment a starving wolflike creature decided to take a little swim in search of food. Tale of a Sail examines the early dinosaur known as Dimetrodon, a hippo-sized beast that carried a sail on its back and proto-mammalian teeth in its mouth. Paleontologists debate the function of the sail, but not the fact that the Dimetrodon straddled the line between lizards--which went on to dominate the planet for millions of years--and mammals, which were reduced to rodent-sized prey until dinosaur extinction. While kids will enjoy the fierce-looking artistic renditions of the sea monsters, it's the examination of prehistoric mysteries and the search for the elusive skeletons that will explain everything that makes this part of the Paleo World series a satisfying experience. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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5.0 out of 5 stars before walking with dinos there was., December 28, 2011

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Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paleo World: Sea Monsters [VHS] (VHS Tape)

paleoworld ran for 50 episodes from 1993-97 and it was a great way to learn about the past. This is just one episode and sadly few of the shows eps are on dvd and even then they are out of print. I owned a number of these shows on vhs, the format was deleted in 2005, but is some cases , some items never made it to dvd and this is one of them. Before walking with dinosaurs this used cgi and models to create recreations of the past. This one is on giant sea creatures of the past.. The show was 24 minutes per ep and was the 90's best show on ancient animals out there. It was a show that teaches and even has scientists relate current scientific ideas. (from the 90's)