Welcome in our cave for a new journey into science. This time we'll start together the exploration of an extremely far world: our planet when was inhabitated by the dinosaurs.
The Piero Angela's first words at the start of the series
Main Host: So, no perfumes?
Time-Traveller: No...but there's a good aroma of resin here.
The two "twin hosts" talking about the Triassic world still empty of flowers
A researcher said the brontosaur is like an elephant with the head at the top of its trunk.
The narrating voice about Brontosaurus: the researcher in question is Dale Russell, as lampshaded in the accompanying book.
Time-Traveller: This kind of brontosaur weighs about forty tons, like more or less 600 men.
Main Host: 600 men? It's like half a regiment!
The two "twin hosts" talking about its size
Well... poor thing, it hadn't got fortune, but on the other hand these are the hard rules of the game.
The main host about the young Triceratops captured by the tyrannosaur
Someone has suggested that the tyrannosaur is basically a mouth walking on two legs, and there's something true in this.
The main host about Tyrannosaurus after describing its skeleton in the studio
There's no branch of investigating sciences so little-practiced, and yet so important, than the art of interpreting the footprints.
Attributed by the main host to Sherlock Holmes
Main Host: It's full night there?
Time-Traveller: No, it's almost dawn now, but as I see it's seemingly stopping raining maybe we'll see a wonderful sunrise.
Said just after the dramatic nocturnal hunt of the dromeosaurs
Main Host: So, do you stay on the tree?
Time-Traveller: Yes, because it's not convenient to go down, but since I haven't nothing more to show to you I think i'll better remain here until the next episode.
Said at the end of the 3rd episode, when the traveller is upon a tree with an approaching Deinosuchus in the nearby river
So, like a thriller novel, there's a corpse, or rather there are many corpses; there's surely a culprit, but we don't understand who shot. There are many suspects, but the proofs are missing. It's missing what researchers call "the smoking gun", that is the still hot weapon. But recently some of them believe to have maybe found that gun, and even its gigantic projectile: a 10 kms wide projectile.
The main host about the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs
When exploring the Prehistory one becomes aware about how convoluted, full of traumas, the road of the history of Life on Earth has been. The story of our life, of our culture, represents only a "microsecond" of this extremely long time. It's also curious to think that for millions, for billions of years there was nobody there observing and trying to understand: this has happened only with us humans. And, after all, we're really starting to understand something.
The time-traveller's last words at the end of his journey
Our journey ends here; the journey of the dinosaurs continues instead, because many people will surely continue to talk about them under every point of view — scientific, paleontologic, or even of popular-science. So one could even say, paradoxically, that dinosaurs are not gone. They're always among us. And they'll probably remain with us for long.
Piero Angela's last prophetic words at the very end of the series note
