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Dinosaurs: Return to Life?

On:       The Discovery Channel
              Airing Saturday, March 1
              at 9 PM EST

Ever since Jurassic Park, we've dreamed of recreating dinosaurs. But the science behind this fantasy seemed impossible - until now. Remarkable genetic advances are revealing that the DNA of dinosaurs and birds are extremely similar. And scientists are uncovering ancient dinosaur traits in birds' DNA such as teeth and long dinosaur tails.

Advances in genetic engineering are moving so fast that, in the future, it may be possible to retro-engineer a proto-dinosaur from a bird.

About Veriscope Pictures

Veriscope Pictures, a Boston-based company, produces science and history documentaries for television.

Principal, Dan Levitt, has had over fifiteen years of experience producing programs for the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, the History Channel, the Discovery Health Channel, TBS, and PBS. His films have received an Emmy Award, Cine Golden Eagle, and Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He co-produced an hour of the Peabody Award-winning Moonshot. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, Dan has a BA from Swarthmore College and an MFA in filmmaking.

Past Productions

2057 - The Body, The City, The World. Veriscope Pictures' re-versioned Gruppe5's series about life in the future. How will new technologies from flying cars and organ transplants to intelligent cars change your life? See the future - 50 years from now.

We added new sequences, rewrote, and extensively reedited for the US broadcasts. (Discovery Channel).

Prophets of Science Fiction. Jules Verne and H.G. Wells predicted how we would reach the moon, the future of the submarine, and the invention of the atom bomb. How did these prophets of science fiction see the future with such uncanny accuracy? (Discovery International and The Science Channel).

Hitler's Lost Plan. We all know what Hitler did, but why did he do it? The discovery of an unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler opens a new window into Hitler's bizarre mind. Among the revelations: as early as 1928, Hitler was planning to attack America. (History Channel).

Brilliant Minds: Secrets of the Cosmos. The tumultuous lives and brilliant minds of Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. (The Science Channel). 2004 Cine Golden Eagle. Houston-Worldfest Gold Special Jury Award.

Medical Secrets: Marilyn Monroe. A psychological biography of Marilyn Monroe that explains her drug use, many troubled years of daily Freudian therapy, and her accidental overdose. (Discovery Health Channel).

Custer's Last Stand. Battlefield archaeologists use crime-scene forensics to discover the real story (Discovery Channel's Unsolved History).

Forensics in the White House. Sam Byck's little-known attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon. Alexander Graham Bell invents the metal detector in an attempt to save President Garfield's life. Was Zachary Taylor poisoned? (Unsolved History).

Mummies of the Philippines. Scientists investigate ancient mummies in caves in the Philippine highlands. (Discovery Channel).

Secrets of the Samurai. Samurai swordfighting, castles, swordmaking, and armor making. (Discovery Channel).

The Next Plague. CDC and Malaysian scientists fight to contain an outbreak of an emerging virus that killed over 200 people in Malaysia. (Discovery Channel).

Moonshot. The story of America's quest to reach the moon. Co-produced an hour on the Gemini Program. (TBS). Peabody Award.



Over 25 stories for Discover Magazine and History Channel's This Week in History, from artificial intelligence and the mysterious cause of mutant frogs to Napoleon in Egypt and a new theory that explains the Salem witch trials.

 

   

 

   

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