Big Al

The BBC video about Big Al the Allosaurus follows a dinosaur from day one. It shows him hatching from his egg all the way to his death. Big Al is a healthy baby Allosaurus who grows up but does not make it to his full size. As he is learning how to survive in the world, he fails at more things than he succeeds at. This leads to his eventual demise. For example. Al gets injured while attempting to hunt prey and ends up dying as a result of it.

Some events that happen in the video are based on fossil evidence, and some are not. There are three examples of each of these in the story. One of the things that is based on fossil evidence is the infection in Al’s middle toe. This can be seen in his preserved skeleton. Another aspect of the story is Al’s broken rib bone. This too can be seen in his skeleton. The third aspect of the video that is based on fossil evidence is that he died in a riverbed. This can be proven by how well his fossil was preserved and the way in which it was preserved.

The first aspect of the video that was created by the makers was when Al sees the dinosaur stuck in the mud, trying to eat meat from a carcass. Al realizes the other dinosaur’s mistake and does not fall for it himself. The second time that a part of they story was clearly invented by the Hollywood minds is when Al (along with other dinosaurs) surround the sick dinosaur from the pack and wait for it to die, in order to eat it. This probably occurred often but there is no evidence to support that Al did this. The third aspect is when Al breaks his toe. There is evidence in his skeleton to prove that his toe got broken and eventually infected, but how it happened is a mystery. The makers of the video came up with Al tripping over a branch and falling, but there is no evidence to support it. All of these things were made up to make the story flow well.