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Release year: 2004

Storyline

An imaginative blend of adventure and nature special that purports to investigate the discovery of a dragon's corpse in modern-day Romania. A British scientific team attempts to understand the creature's unique capabilities.

Top credits

Directors

Justin Hardy

Writers

Cast

Ian Holm — Narrator
Patrick Stewart — Narrator
Paul Hilton — Dr. Tanner
Katrine Bach — Biologist

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• The scientific facts, and the convincing dragon carcass, lead people to believe that there actually was a dragon found.

• The Chinese dragon uses mimicry to lure a tiger before killing it. In real-life, tigers are also capable of mimicry. Bengal tigers are known to mimic Sambar deer calls, while Siberian tigers can mimic Asian black bears. Sloth bears have been known to run upon hearing actual sambar deer, in the belief that they were in the presence of tigers.

• The scene where the fossilised skull of the Tyrannosaurus rex who fought the Prehistoric Dragon is examined was filmed in the Oxford Museum of Natural History rather than the Natural History Museum in London.