Dinosaur Britain
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| image = Dinosaur Britain titlecard.jpg
| caption =
| alt = Series title with the shadow of a dinosaur's head
| genre = Documentary
| creator =
| writer =
| director =
| creative_director =
| presenter = Ellie Harrison and Dean Lomax
| narrated = Ellie Harrison
| composer = Nainita Desai and Malcolm Laws
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| num_series = 1
| num_episodes = 2
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| executive_producer = Dan Goldsack
| producer = Caroline Lee
| location =
| cinematography = Tom Pridham
| runtime = 45-46 minutes
| company = Maverick Television
| channel = ITV
| first_aired = {{Start date|df=yes|2015|8|31}}
| last_aired = {{end date|df=yes|2015|9|1}}
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Dinosaur Britain is a two-part British documentary on ITV telling the story of many of the dinosaurs that once roamed Great Britain, revealing how they hunted, what they ate and how they died from the evidence revealed from their bones. Presenter Ellie Harrison teams up with young paleontologist Dean Lomax in order to depict different species of dinosaurs set to the backdrop of modern Britain.
Episodes
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| EpisodeNumber= 1
| Title= Episode 1
| Aux3=Gareth Johnson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2015|8|31|df=y}}
| ShortSummary= This episode features Baryonyx depicted wandering the halls of the British Natural History Museum before going fishing in the Thames, along with the first dinosaur to be named, Megalosaurus, as it rampages through the streets of Oxford. It then depicts the large herbivorous Iguanodon feeding among the anchronistic statues of itself at Crystal Palace, and Nuthetes, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, hunting and causing mischief in and around Stonehenge, as well as the armoured Scelidosaurus.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 2
| Title= Episode 2
| Aux3=Gareth Johnson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2015|9|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary= In this episode, the duo travels to the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Wight to meet Cetiosaurus and Echinodon. They meet paleontologist Darren Naish, who shows evidence for a fight between two dinosaurs, Mantellisaurus and Neovenator, and they meet Proceratosaurus, an ancestor to T. rex, as well as Dacentrurus. The episode concludes with a recent discovery that has yet to be named (now called Dracoraptor).
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External links
- [http://presscentre.itvstatic.com/presscentre/sites/presscentre/files/dinosaur_britain_itv.pdf] ITV press pack
Category:2015 British television series debuts
Category:2015 British television series endings
Category:2010s British documentary television series
Category:2010s British television miniseries
Category:Documentary television series about dinosaurs