National Geographic's Dino Death Trap review
Dino Death Trap is one of the more well-known palaeo-documentaries under National Geographic's released in 2007, the same year as fellow well-known ones Sea Monsters and the cenozoic doc Prehistoic Predators . It's also the one that introduced the early tyrannosaur Guanlong and early ceratopsian Yinlong to me, as with many others. Might I also add it was released under the banner Dinosaurs Unearthed , shared with the documentary about Edmontosaurus , Dino Autopsy (which we will eventualy get to eventually). The documentary is about palaeontologists from both sides of the Pacific like the iconic Xu Xing and the Tyrell Museum's David Eberth discovering a trove of fossils the Middle Jurassic of northwestern China 160-155 million years ago and working to determine how they fit in dinosaur evolution since not many dinosaur fossils are preserved from the era, in particularly a whole column with layer upon layer of dinosaur skeletons. At the end of the doc we are treated t...