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Land of Giants and The Giant Claw sees time-travelling zoologist Nigel Marven travel back in time to encounter and interact with prehistoric life. Marven seeks to solve palaeontological mysteries through direct observation. In The Giant Claw he searches for the obscure dinosaur Therizinosaurus.
- Nature Documentary
Dec 30, 2002 · The Giant Claw: Directed by Tim Haines, Jasper James. With Nigel Marven. Nigel Marven travels back in an Early Cretaceous Mongolia to find the dinosaur with the largest claws: Therizinosaurus.
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- Documentary, Animation, History
- Tim Haines, Jasper James
- 2002-12-30
It is hosted and presented by Nigel Marven, playing himself as a time-travelling naturalist seeking out the true identity of Therizinosaurus in Late Cretaceous Mongolia. Marven describes his surroundings directly to his camera crew while interacting with CGI dinosaurs in live-action landscapes.
Nigel Marven materializes in Mongolia, Planet Dinosaur. He explains to the cameraman why he is here: he is seeking the owner of a giant claw. Just as he finishes explaining, a Saurolophus tramples his tent.
Nigel Alan Marven (born 27 November 1960) is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries Chased by Dinosaurs, its sequel, Sea Monsters, as well as the ITV miniseries Prehistoric Park.
Following in the footsteps of The Giant Claw (2002) and Land of Giants (2003), special episodes of the nature documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters stars British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven as a "time-travelling zoologist" who travels to seven different periods of time in prehistory, diving in the "seven deadliest seas of ...
Land of Giants and The Giant Claw sees time-travelling zoologist Nigel Marven travel back in time to encounter and interact with prehistoric life. Marven seeks to solve palaeontological mysteries through direct observation. In The Giant Claw he searches for the obscure dinosaur Therizinosaurus.
