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Modern Dinosaurs

Once they've sensed their prey, they wait patientlyuntil it's close and then make a...

Once they've sensed their prey, they wait patiently
until it's close and then make a surprise attack
at blinding speed

Full Transcript

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Once they've sensed their prey,
00:00:02.064 --> 00:00:04.008
they wait patiently until it's close
00:00:04.088 --> 00:00:08.999
and then make a surprise attack at blinding speed.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
00:30:25
Uploaded
Jul 07, 2025
Season
1
Episode
5
Genres
Production
AB Filmcenter

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I was going to show you her teeth,
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They can cope with high levels of salt
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Those teeth are very small and facing backwards,
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And they can move surprisingly fast on land.
S01 • E05 So, they're small, grasping teeth, - Modern Dinosaurs 00:08
So, they're small, grasping teeth,
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And if it's too big, they'll grab it and start twi...
S01 • E05 And they can do ten or 12 revolutions a second, - Modern Dinosaurs 00:05
And they can do ten or 12 revolutions a second,
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The rivers and estuaries crocodiles live in
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And those little teeth there just, um, really get a good gri...
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And certainly, you wouldn't want a big eel like this,
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The team has been alerted to a crocodile in a trap
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But there are stories of them coming up and nudging people,
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If we didn't have this programme going,
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In turbid water,
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A lot of people live just not very far away from here,
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But I've only ever been bitten a couple of times,
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There are 19 species of freshwater eel in the world,
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Yet New Zealand's female longfins are almost twice the ...
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Why have they been the subject of island gigantism,