Burlington Public Library

Contains four animated stories about dinosaurs, including the title selection in which a young dinosaur fusses over having to go to bed. Includes three bonus stories.

Introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. Other segments: The mysteries of dinosaurs: LeVar buries a time capsule and relates this activity to what we find now when we look at dinosaurs from the past ; What makes a dinosaur?: dino-history poem with visuals of present day animals who are related to dinosaurs ; Let's dig up fossils:...

Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. There's strong evidence of the asteroid impact, but no fossils of a dinosaur killed in the event have ever been found. Now, at a dig site in North Dakota, scientists have uncovered a wealth of fossilized creatures that could reveal a more detailed picture of the devastating day the asteroid hit. Following a trail of remarkably well-preserved fossils, including...

Five adapted stories that encourage a love of reading for the pre- or early reader and sing-along fun for Mom and baby.

Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, NOVA's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the team unearths startling and controversial evidence of what may be the earliest humans ever to venture into the untamed wilderness...

Sir David Attenborough drops in for tea at the modest suburban home of Neville and Sally Hollingworth, both amateur fossil hunters in southern England. He's there to look at some of the unusual objects that decorate their living room, including giant tusks and massive molars that belonged to extinct mammoths and a hand-axe shaped by Neanderthals.

Prehistoric sharks: The great white shark is the most dangerous and feared of sharks today. But Earth's ancient oceans were ruled by his even more menacing ancestor nicknamed Megatooth--the most spectacular marine predator ever to roam the seas. As big as a Greyhound bus, this mega-shark weighed more than 20 times as much as today's great white and satisfied his voracious appetite by feasting on the largest prey in the ocean--whales. In our film,...