Documentary Description
Dinosaurs on Ice follows the journey of two scientists, Dr
Tom Rich and Dr Tony Fiorillo, who undertake separate expeditions to
the Colville River in Alaska's far north to uncover the dinosaurs'
bones and break the ice on a prehistoric world that until now has been
unreachable. But the task is not easy. The weather is extreme, the
location remote.
Dr Tom Rich from the Museum of Victoria became a leading authority
on polar dinosaurs after discovering them in Australia over two decades
ago. He wants to build a mine into the Alaskan permafrost to uncover
dinosaur bones.
Dr Tony Fiorillo from Dallas has been working on the north slope for 10 years, using more traditional methods.
The idea for the dinosaur mine on Alaska's north slope was
originally inspired by Dr Tom Rich's success using the same methods on
the coast of Australia. For many years palaeontologists and volunteers
painstakingly blasted and drilled into the base of a 90 metre high
cliff in a remote part of the rugged coast of south eastern Australia -
the only dinosaur mine in the world.
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