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Embeds from educational channels. If a player fails in your browser or region, use the “Open on YouTube” link under each video. For more episodes, start with PBS Eons.

Прогулки с динозаврами (сериал, озвучка Николай Дроздов)

Все 6 серий классического сериала BBC — прямо здесь, без YouTube.

1. Новая кровь

Поздний триас: первые динозавры и мир, который они делили с другими архозаврами.

2. Время титанов

Юрский период и гигантские завроподы формации Моррисон.

3. Жестокое море

Морские рептилии юрского периода — не динозавры, но соседи по эпохе.

4. Гиганты неба

Птерозавры позднего юрского и раннего мелового периодов.

5. Духи ледяного леса

Меловая фауна Австралии и жизнь у полярного круга.

6. Гибель династии

Конец мела: последние дни нептичьих динозавров Северной Америки.

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Why such small arms?

TED-Ed on tyrannosaur forelimbs and what fossils might imply.

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Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC Earth)

Official trailer for the BBC’s cinematic dinosaur series.

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Dinosaurs 101

National Geographic overview of the dinosaur story.

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Surviving the impact winter

Melodysheep explores the Chicxulub scenario and what it would take for humans to make it through.

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How To Watch Dinosaur Media Critically

Good dinosaur videos can teach a lot, but they also mix evidence, reconstruction and dramatic storytelling.

Ask what is evidence and what is reconstruction

A skeleton, a fossil feather and a fully textured life reconstruction do not carry the same certainty. Good media usually makes that distinction clear, or at least gives you enough context to detect it.

Watch for outdated tropes

The “slow swamp lizard” stereotype, the idea that all raptors were movie-sized pack hunters, or the habit of putting any famous dinosaur in the same scene are all warning signs that entertainment may be outrunning evidence.

Notice what time period is being shown

Good content usually anchors animals in a formation, place or age. If a documentary treats Jurassic and Late Cretaceous animals as though they were neighbors, it is simplifying more than it should.

Use museum channels as a baseline

Museum and educational channels are useful anchor points because they tend to update more carefully and explain where a claim comes from. Once you have that baseline, it is much easier to spot flashy overstatements elsewhere.