:06:03
When Professor Challenger is finally ready,
perhaps I might continue?
:06:07
Carry on, Professor.
:06:12
The very word dinosaur,
meaning "terrible reptile", tells us...
:06:17
...this is a vertebra from a creature
known as "Iguanodon bernissartensis".
:06:25
Behind me is an artist's impression
of the iguanodon,
:06:29
which stood on its hind legs
in the manner of a kangaroo.
:06:32
Oh, come on! A kangaroo?
Are you sure? Have you ever seen one?
:06:38
Don't be absurd!
No one's ever seen a dinosaur.
:06:43
The great size of these creatures
was paradoxically their weakness,
:06:47
for the dinosaurs could not compete
with the smaller and more agile mammals.
:06:53
Where's his proof?
:06:56
The proof is that we are here and dinosaurs
are remarkably thin on the ground.
:07:03
Professor Summerlee...
:07:06
...I wonder if you would be kind enough
to identify something for me.
:07:12
I will take questions at the end.
:07:15
I'm sure you will.
Let's have a look at this first.
:07:22
Now...
:07:24
...what do you make of that?
:07:31
It appears to be
a remarkably well-preserved fossil
:07:35
of the forearm of a pterosaur,
a flying reptile of the Mesozoic period.
:07:41
But it isn't a fossil, is it?
:07:46
There's something up here.
Make sure you get all this down.
:07:50
Must be a fake.
:07:53
Clever, undoubtedly, but a fake.
:07:57
This bone came from an animal...