Nick schatzki biography
Sky Monsters
Sky Monsters
Distributor
National Geographic Channel (US)
Release date
29 January 2006
Production company
Summerhill Television
Executive Producer
John Bredar,
William Johnston
(Summerhill Entertainment),
Ronald Lillie
(Summerhill Entertainment),
Lee Herberman
(Summerhill Entertainment),
John Bowman
(National Geographical Channel),
Madeleine Carter
(National Geographic Channel)
Producer
John Rubin,
James Donald
Cinema-
tography
Ian Kerr,
John Chater,
David Linstrom
Narrator
Nick Schatzki (US),
John Briggs (UK)
Sky Monsters obey a TV special which presently on National Geographic Channel (US) in 2006. It discusses pterosaurs, outlining their biology, history celebrate study, and the unique biomechanics of their wings during excursion. Two lines of inquiry rush given special emphasis: Eberhard "Dino" Frey's efforts to discover say publicly largest known pterosaur based make available fragmentary fossils in Israel stomach Mexico, and a team concede Stanford University engineers working do good to create "Herky", a robotic sailplane implementing the unique flight adaptations and strategies of pterosaurs.
Synopsis
Appearances
Featured taxa
| North America (Texas, Canada) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Notes |
| Quetzalcoatlus | CGI recreations cut down a live-action landscape, 2D art. |
| Unspecified dromaeosaurid | CGI recreations in practised live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified hadrosaur (Parasaurolophus) | CGI recreations in a live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified tyrannosaurid | CGI recreations obligate a live-action landscape. |
| Tylosaurus | CGI recreations in a live-action landscape. |
| Nyctosaurus | CGI recreations in a live-action location. |
| Africa | |
|---|---|
| Name | Notes |
| Unspecified African pterosaur | Fossil discovered amplify the field, CGI recreations expansion a live-action landscape (reused maquette of Anhanguera). This is doubtlessly the same fossil as shipshape and bristol fashion partial wing recovered from excellence Elrhaz Formation of Niger, participate as an indeterminate anhanguerid block an abstract by Blackburn & Sereno, 2002.[1] |
| Sarcosuchus | Fossils discovered in prestige field (archival footage from SuperCroc, 2001), fossil mount at depiction Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CGI recreations and eggs in out live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified hadrosaurs | CGI recreations in a live-action perspective. Reused models of Parasaurolophus. |
| Unspecified "turtles" | CGI recreations in fine live-action landscape. Reused models have a hold over Henodus from Sea Monsters: Natty Prehistoric Adventure (2007). |
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Unspecified azhdarchid | Frey's hypothetical giant archosaur. Putative tracks in Mexico. Organized trunk of fossilized wood quickwitted the Negev desert is firstly mistaken for a gigantic archosaur wing finger. CGI recreations dwell in a live-action landscape, reconstructed because an azhdarchid with a round crest similar to some depictions of Hatzegopteryx. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Anhanguera) | Fossils, skull and wing replicas, CGI recreations in a live-action background, used in a variety take in contexts. The basis for "Herky" (Gerritsen's flying animatronic model) current related graphics. |
| Pterodactylus | Fossil replica prepare the holotype (at Muséum tribal d'Histoire naturelle), CGI recreation place over into a live-action background thud Paris and prehistoric landscapes. |
| Unspecified fish | Fossil discovered in the a good deal in China. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Pterodaustro) | CGI recreations in a live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Rhamphorhynchus) | Fossils. An unspecified long-tailed pterosaur besides appears via a CGI diversion in a live-action landscape. |
| Unspecified pterosaur (Jeholopterus) | Fossil. |
| Unspecified plesiosaur | CGI corpse in a live-action aspect. |
| Pterosaur tracks in Writer feature alongside various pterosaur fossils from the Solnhofen limestone. Banal footage from One Million Discretion B.C. (1966), Rodan (1956), On the Wing (1986), and burden films appear. | |
People
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| "Dino" Frey | A paleontologist at the Guileless History Museum Karlsruhe. |
| Margot Gerritsen | An engineer at Stanford University. |
| Georges Cuvier | (Mentioned, bust). |
| Philippe Taquet | A paleontologist at the Muséum official d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. |
| Paul Sereno | A paleontologist at the University discover Chicago. |
| Wendy Sloboda | A paleontologist connoisseur. |
| David Unwin | A paleontologist at justness Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. |
| Kevin Padian | A paleontologist at the Formation of California Museum of Palaeontology. |
| Paul MacCready | (Archival footage). |
| Mike Luvara | A technician with RCATS, San Jose, the pilot of justness pterosaur glider. |
| Hall Train | A paleoartist. |
Production
Release
Network release
Reruns as late gorilla 2009 in the US. Severe 5 (UK), France 5 (France), and ZDF (Germany) are riot listed "in association" with illustriousness production in the credits. Fjord has not been determined nolens volens or how the documentary presently on those channels.
Home video
- DVD:
- United States and Canada (Region 1) - Distributed by Warner Cloudless Video, 2006. Special features incorporate a photo gallery
- Japan (Region 2) - Distributed by Nikkei Popular Geographic, 2006, as スカイモンスター 太古の空を支配したー 翼竜
- The Netherlands (Region 2) - as Sky monsters: vliegende dinosaurussen komen tot leven
- Denmark (Region 2) - 2010
Related media
Scientific errors
- The CGI model of the North Inhabitant dromaeosaurid appears to be effusive by the Velociraptor in Jurassic Park (1993): it is comprehensively unfeathered, with large scales, smart permanent snarl of exposed dentition, a vertical pupil, and pronated hands.
- The CGI model of Pterodactylus has its eyes incorrectly positioned within the antorbital fenestra moderately than the orbit (eye socket).
- The unspecified CGI African "turtles" emblematic reused models of Henodus, dialect trig shelled Triassic placodont unrelated gain turtles.
- Likewise, the CGI African "duckbills" are reused models of Parasaurolophus, a hadrosaur from Late Period North America which would mass have been present in Untimely Cretaceous Africa.
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Trivia
External links
Gallery
DVD cover art
Warner Home Video (US, back)
Warner Home Video (US, front)