Synopsis: Titanoboa is a giant prehistoric snake discovered is South America and is compared to its modern day relatives to learn about this ancient predator.
Viewed on: Youtube
The documentary is well made with a dash of cheese to market it as one of the entertaining programs of television. It begins with the backstory of the area in which the fossils were discovered, a coal mining location in Cerrejón, Colombia. Due to the operations of the mines, levels of sediment is revealed and many fossils are found, giant turtles, crocodiles, and of course Titanoboa.
The lead scientists in this doc actually do a great explaining all the different elements that goes into the approximation and guess work of Titanoboa's size. The scene in which a mathematician is brought in to calculate the size of the snake based on several vertebrae I found that very fascinating, and something unique we don't see often in these nature docs.
Also of course we have scenes using modern day constrictors (the giant snakes of today) because they are good analogous specimens to compare to Titanoboa. On top of what I mentioned, we also have a sculptor (maybe the same as Super Croc's sculptor?) at the end of the doc creating it for a tour. Can't help but compare it to the Super Croc doc but the material is enough for it to stand on it's own. Even the sculpt at the end was unique enough to capture the "fear factor" as one of the scientists put it. A quick google search will reveal what I'm talking about. Anyways it was a good feature, although a lot scenes leaned on cheese and bad line delivery, I still say its worth your time.
My Score: Tyrannosaurus Recs
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