Word: utahraptor
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...sheerly as entertainment, Walking is part spectacle, part hoot. The dinos can be breathtaking from a distance, especially in the gorgeous underwater scenes; close-up, they're sometimes as convincing as the Sleestacks in Land of the Lost. The narration, while informative, can slip into corny anthropomorphism ("This female Utahraptor is up to no good!"), none of which undercuts the eternal coolness factor of the extinct. Last month Discovery's Raising the Mammoth drew 10.1 million people, the biggest cable-documentary audience ever, and Haines is at work on follow-ups. Thankfully, his stars may be able to crush spines...
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