Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
DVD cover of Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure.
Directed by	Sean MacLeod Phillips
Produced by	National Geographic
Written by	Mose Richards
Narrated by	Liev Schreiber
Music by	Richard Evans, David Rhodes and Peter Gabriel
Editing by	Jonathan P. Shaw
Distributed by	National Geographic
Release date(s)	October 5, 2007
Running time	40 minutes
Language	English

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure is a film by National Geographic which is set in the Earth's prehistoric past. The film features state-of-the-art three dimensional photographic and computer generated characters/animals. The setting alternates between prehistory and modern day times in which scientists study the fossilized remains of the creatures in the film. It is filmed in 3D and requires 3D glasses.

Plot

The protagonist of the story is Dolly, a female Dolichorhynchops, who travels the Kansas Inland Sea, 82 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period with her family. She gets attacked by a shark (Cretoxyrhina) which kills her mother; and is then killed by a Tylosaurus. Dolly survives with a tooth embedded in her flipper. Later, Dolly's brother is swallowed whole by a young Tylosaurus, then an older Tylosaurus kills the younger one, leaving Dolly alone. Then she becomes a mother and has three young of her of own. After seasons of traveling around the Inland sea, Dolly dies peacefully of old age.

Cast

• Sean MacLeod Phillips – director
• Liam Owen – photography
• Jonathan P. Shaw – edition

Creatures featured

Most of the creatures are later identified on the official website and the DVD.

• Ammonite
• Baculite (identified as "straight-shelled ammonites")
• Bananogmius, an extinct genus of bony fish
• Caproberyx, an extinct genus of bony fish
• Cretoxyrhina,a large shark
• Dolichorhynchops (often shortened to "dollies" in the story), a genus of plesiosaur
• Enchodus, an extinct genus of bony fish
• Gillicus, a relatively small, 2-meter long ichthyodectid fish
• Gorgosaurus, a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur
• Henodus (cameo), a placodont with an elaborate shell of the Late Triassic period
• Hesperornis, an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds
• Inoceramus, an extinct genus of giant clam
• Jellyfish (live-acted)
• Kronosaurus (cameo),an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur
• Leptecodon, a genus of prehistoric fish
• Nothosaurus (cameo),an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile
• Platecarpus, an extinct genus of aquatic lizard belonging to the mosasaur family
• Protosphyraena, a fossil genus of swordfish-like marine fish
• Protostega, an extinct species of marine turtle
• Pteranodon, one of the largest pterosaur genera
• Squalicorax, a genus of extinct lamniform shark
• Styxosaurus, a genus of plesiosaur of the family Elasmosauridae
• Temnodontosaurus (cameo), a big ichthyosaur
• Tusoteuthis, a genus of Cretaceous cephalopod molluscs
• Tylosaurus, a big mosasaur
• Uintacrinus (identified as "crinoid"), a floating colonial crinoid
• Xiphactinus, a 4.5 to 5 m (15 to 20 feet) long predatory bony fish

Video game

The Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure is a video game from DSI Games and Zoo Digital Publishing, it was released on the Wii, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo DS on October 25, 2007. The game, developed by Destination Software, Inc. allows players to interact in a prehistoric world of sea creatures.

The game received poor reviews across all platforms.

See also

• Walking with Dinosaurs
• Sea Monsters
• Walking with Monsters

References

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seamonsters/

External links

• Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
• Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure at AllRovi