Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs of the Frozen Continent - Ep 2 What Lies Beneath (2021)

Ep 2 What Lies Beneath - In this episode we find out how the great discovery in the 1990s of the Cryolophosaurus dubbed the T-Rex of Antarctica and a 25-foot-long plant eater the Glacialisaurus lead to a renewed interest in a continent that was once thought to be largely devoid of life.

A lost prehistoric world of Antarctica is brought back to life through state-of-the art CGI. Take a 300-million-year journey of discovery, through a group of paleontologists' expedition to the ice continent to understand how dinosaurs and great forests once thrived here.

NOTE: This documentary was re-edited into a 40 min version titled "Dinosaurs of Antarctica" which has been only shown in museum theaters.

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My favorite part is the reuse of the model of the Paluxysaurus from Prehistoric! as a basal Sauropod.

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. While I doubt anyone will see this comment, I'll still put it up.
You keeping say how did they do this or that when it was so cold or dark. Well as for the cold, your ignoring your own statement of it was globally hotter. If it was 5*C hotter globally, that would include Antarctica. But don't forget humidity. A humid climate can't cool down as fast as a dry one. So Antarctica wouldn't be Able to reach freezing temperatures because the ocean current would continuously supply hot humid air. This would mean, constraint growth if not for long pierids of darkness.
Now for the dark. Earth's axis may have shifted later then expected, we don't know, so I'll assume it was always like this. If that were the case, four months of darkness means animals can hibernate or migrate. Even some hummingbirds and butterflies migrate. They like the emperor penguin could fight through it or like several animals in Alaska just continue their life as normal. As for plants, look at the Arctic Willow. With a drastically different air, these shrubs could grow much larger. Even Arctic circle has plant, animal, and insect life.