SEA MONSTERS

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Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure is a stunning large-format film narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Liev Schreiber. The 40-minute film explores the largely unknown world of the "other" dinosaurs, reptiles that lived beneath the water 80 million years ago.

Sea Monsters follows an animated family of Dolichorhynchops (a sea creature approximately the size of a dolphin with a long snout), informally known as "Dollies," as they travel these ancient waters. During their journey the Dollies encounter many other astonishing sea creatures including Platecarpus, a lizard-like reptile that swallows its prey whole like snakes Styxosaurus, with a 20-foot-long neck and paddle-like fins as large as an adult human and the gigantic, top-of-the-food-chain Tylosaurus.

The film also visits paleontological digs around the world and shows how and what scientists know about these creatures. For example, shark teeth found throughout the central United States prove that sharks thrived during the Age of the Dinosaurs, while the shapes of their jaws and teeth provide clues about their diets. Occasionally paleontologists are lucky enough to discover bones of one species inside the remains of the other, such as a fossilized Xiphactinus, a 17-foot-long predatory fish found with an entire 6-foot fish inside, swallowed whole.