Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: DK VIDEO
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 1997
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0789421534
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,653 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In this episode of Amazing Animals, Henry the animated lizard hops into his time machine to travel back millions of years. Expecting dinosaurs to rule the world, he is surprised to find armadillos, ostriches, sharks, and many other animals that are still around today. Many of them, however, were much larger. The prehistoric crocodile grew up to about 60 feet long, or twice as long as today's croc. Henry also learns about tree ferns--the world's first forest--and how the lowly salamander was an ancestor of the dinosaurs. Birds also were around before and after the dinosaurs--indeed they have some similar features, and the first bird, archaeopteryx, was a close, contemporary relative of the dinosaurs.

All this information has been passed down to us through mammoths preserved in ice, fossilized skeletons, and--shades of Jurassic Park--insects encased in amber (early dragonflies had the wingspans of pigeons!). This 24-minute video also shows the Komodo dragon, who certainly has the features of a dinosaur, and the present Serengeti plain to give us an idea of how prehistoric plains might have appeared. Prehistoric Animals has a lot of good footage of today's animals as well as interesting facts about their relatives, but look elsewhere if you want dinosaurs. --David Horiuchi

Product Description

Broadcast nationally on The Disney Channel, Amazing Animals has quickly won children's hearts around the nation. Featuring the lovable Henry the Lizard as the inquisitive object of the narrator's clever questions and insights, each is a riot of humor, live-action footage, animation and information. Children cannot help but have fun as they learn. #1 rated non-Disney program on The Disney Channel(tm) "Fun facts, folklore and animal behavior are rolled into one gorgeous-and entertaining-science lesson."-Publishers Weekly Disney Channel ratings increased 31% for the Amazing Animals broadcast time slot! Amazing Animals: Armored Animals reached #38 on Billboard's Video Retail Charts.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Tape for Dinosaur Lovers, June 5, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Prehistoric Animals [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I liked this video. It has dinosaurs and a horseshoe crab like the one I touched at the aquarium. You can learn a lot about prehistoric animals. Henry is the funniest, he's even funny in his reports! The cartoons are funny, too. I think that other dinosaur lovers would love this video even though it's not all dinosaurs.