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A gripping story of obsession, ambition and rivalry that led to one of Britain's greatest scientific feuds, Dinosaur Hunters is the dramatised story of the men and women who discovered the dinosaurs. Set in 19th century England it is a tale of scientific brilliance and rivalry that changed the world forever. When doctor Gideon Mantell found huge fossilised bones buried in the English countryside he began to wonder whether extraordinary creatures had once roamed the Earth long before Man. It was a pursuit that was to take over his life, but Mantell's radical ideas flew in the face of Victorian thinking and its literal reading of the Bible, which not only stated that the Earth and it's inhabitants had been created only 6,000 years previously, but singularly failed to mention ancient giant lizards.

A gripping story of obsession, ambition and rivalry that led to one of Britain's greatest scientific feuds, Dinosaur Hunters is the dramatised story of the men and women who discovered the dinosaurs. Set in 19th century England it is a tale of scientific brilliance and rivalry that changed the world forever. When doctor Gideon Mantell found huge fossilised bones buried in the English countryside he began to wonder whether extraordinary creatures had once roamed the Earth long before Man. It was a pursuit that was to take over his life, but Mantell's radical ideas flew in the face of Victorian thinking and its literal reading of the Bible, which not only stated that the Earth and it's inhabitants had been created only 6,000 years previously, but singularly failed to mention ancient giant lizards.

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