- Hello, folks.
It's me, the conductor.
Today our family learns that the continents
Once all fit together like a big puzzle
Called pangaea.
So come on along with me
On the dinosaur train.
All aboard!
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
[Train whistle toots]
- ♪ Once upon a time ♪
♪ There was a mom ♪
♪ Her name was mrs. Pteranodon ♪
♪ Sitting on her nest ♪
♪ She heard a scratch and then said ♪
- Oh, boy, my eggs are hatching!
- ♪ One by one, her kids popped free ♪
♪ Baby pteranodons, one, two, three ♪
- I'll name you tiny, shiny, and don.
- ♪ But tiny said ♪
- Wait, there's one more, mom.
- ♪ The last little baby ♪
♪ Was a different size ♪
♪ With teeth and a tail ♪
♪ And big green eyes ♪
♪ He didn't look anything ♪
♪ Like the rest ♪
- What am I doing in a pteranodon nest?
- ♪ But dear old mrs. Pteranodon said ♪
- Oh, this is your family, and I'm your mom.
You may be different, but we're all creatures.
All dinosaurs have different features.
Come on, buddy. We'll take a vacation.
I'll get us a ticket at pteranodon station.
We'll travel the world in sunshine and rain
And meet all the species on the...
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ We're gonna ride ♪
- ♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪
[Train whistle toots]
- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪
- [Roaring]
- Tiny, whatcha drawing?
- A map of our beach.
- Ooh. What's a map?
- It's sort of like a picture of the ground from up high.
See? This is our beach.
And here's dad's tree and my tree!
- Cool!
Is that your tiny place?
- Yup.
- Here's my map.
I drew the whole entire earth!
See, here's the land, and here's the water.
- Um, don,
Do you really think that the land is
One big place that's all connected?
- Yeah, we've all travelled over huge oceans
To places that are separate from where we live.
- Like when we fly to grandma and grandpa's across the sea!
- I think my map works.
Seems to me everywhere we go is one big place!
- Let's ask mom and dad!
They'll know if it's all one big place.
- Well, don, you see,
The land we're on, it's, um...
Gee. That's tough.
- Let me try, hon.
Uh, see, don,
All the land around us is...
Well, isn't--
Okay, I'm stumped!
I'm just not sure if the land is all connected.
- Even mom and dad are stumped!
Wait. I know where we can get answers!
Both: from the conductor!
- To the dinosaur train!
[Chuckles]
- [Squawks]
- A map? Ooh, I love maps!
Let's see here. Ooh, very nice.
- But don drew a map of the whole earth
With all the land connected,
And that's not right, is it?
- Actually, shiny,
Mr. The don is partially right!
The earth used to look this way!
All: really?
- That's my boy!
- Wow!
Can we hear more about how I was right?
- Hear and see!
Long ago, almost the whole surface of the earth
Was one giant landmass called pangaea,
Surrounded entirely by water.
And then, just under the surface,
Huge things called plates
Started to shift and move.
This made pangaea break up
And drift apart very, very slowly.
- How slowly?
- About as fast as your toenails grow, buddy!
- Whoa. That is slow!
- How far apart did the broken-up land drift,
Mr. Conductor?
- Oh, quite far.
Now there are oceans between those pieces of land!
- It would be so cool to go back in time and see pangaea!
- But, buddy, even if we could go back to pangaea time,
How could us pteranodons fly high enough to see it all?
- Well, we could fly that high
If we took the dinosaur train zeppelin!
All: yeah! The zeppelin!
- Wait, that's the long pointy balloon, right?
- Right!
Mom, dad, what do you say?
- A trip in the zeppelin?
That sounds wonderful!
- Um, yes.
I'm...in with everyone.
- Great!
Next stop, dinosaur train zeppelin station!
Zeppelin station, next stop!
- Mr. Conductor,
How are we gonna fly the zeppelin back in time?
- Hmm.
Well, buddy, uh... - Simple!
We can take the special sky time tunnel!
[All gasp]
All: tricia troodon!
- Hi, pteranodon family!
Hello, mr. Conductor!
- Tricia? I mean, hello!
I didn't know you were posted out here at zeppelin station.
- I am, and I've been training
To navigate the zeppelin through that very sky time tunnel!
That is, if you don't mind copiloting the zeppelin with me.
- Can she, mr. Conductor? Please?
- I would love to have you as my copilot, tricia!
- [Chuckles]
[Squawks] what are you all waiting for?
A-one! Two! Three! Four!
All: ♪ all aboard the zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
Both: ♪ this whole amazing day ♪
♪ Just makes me grin ♪
♪ ♪
All: ♪ the dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
[All cheering]
- Oh, this is the life, huh, kids?
Flying without even flapping our wings!
- Now you know how I feel!
[Chuckles]
- Copilot tricia,
We've reached our cruising altitude!
- Right! Level off, mr. Copilot!
- If you'll all look out a window,
You can see how high we are!
I can even see the curve of the earth!
[All oohing]
- Yeah, yeah, I've seen it.
- Ah, there's the coastline
Of our present-day cretaceous time period!
- It kind of looks like my map of our beach!
There's rivers, islands, oceans...
- When do we get to see pangaea?
- We're high enough to get
A good zeppelin's eye view of pangaea...
- But now we just have to get to the right time period!
Mr. Conductor, set a heading for the sky time tunnel!
- Ahead full!
To the sky time tunnel!
- Whoa! Look at that mountain!
- But where's the sky time tunnel?
- Right up at the top! See it?
Ready, mr. Conductor?
I'm takin' her in!
Ready, shiny? - Ready.
- Next stop, the triassic.
You call it!
- Sky time tunnel approaching!
Next stop, the triassic time period!
All: whoa!
[Laughter]
- Dinosaurs and pterosaurs,
The triassic time period!
[All cheering]
- We're so far back in time,
We can see when the earth was one huge continent!
Feast your eyes, folks!
Pangaea.
All: pangaea!
- It really does look like one big landmass!
- It is one big landmass, buddy.
We're ,, years in the past!
- And later, in the jurassic time period,
A rift will form down the middle,
Breaking this big landmass
Into two big separate pieces of land.
That rift is at the place
Where those two plates are pulling apart!
- Hey, I think I can see things moving down there.
Maybe a herd.
- Buddy, your keen t. Rex eyesight strikes again!
Tricia, let's take 'er down and get a closer look!
- Aye, aye, mr. Conductor!
Down we go! All: whee!
- [Groans]
- [Squawks]
Hello!
- Are you eoraptors?
- Well, yeah, but what in the heck is that thing?
I thought it was a low hangin' cloud,
Don't you know.
- It's the dinosaur train zeppelin.
We travelled back in time to see pangaea.
It's so big!
- It is big, isn't it?
We love it!
The land just goes on and on forever.
Ernie, watch that rift!
Don't trip over it!
- Where you guys running to?
- Oh, we're always moving,
Either looking for food
Or trying not to be someone else's food!
Bye!
- Fascinating!
Those eoraptors have no idea that in the distant future,
Pangaea will drift apart,
And that narrow little rift down there will become a huge gap--
Actually, an ocean!
Observe!
Everything on one side of the rift
Will move slowly in one direction.
Everything on the other moves in the other direction!
All: whoa!
- And eventually pangaea breaks into
Whole separate lands,
Or what we call continents,
Like we have today.
- Sorry to interrupt, conductor,
But it's time we flew through the sky time tunnel
Back to the cretaceous.
- Goody!
Then we can see how far apart
The continents have drifted!
All righty, then.
Let's fly forward in time!
- Shiny, want to help me take the zeppelin back up?
- [Squawks] I would love to!
- Um, up?
You mean, all-- all the way back up?
[Groans]
- Tiny, do you want to call it?
- Yes! Sky time tunnel approaching!
Next stop, the cretaceous time period!
[All cheering]
All: whoa!
[All cheering]
- Look down there!
That line that used to be a rift is a coastline.
- There's a whole ocean there now!
- You're right, kids.
The land you see down there
Was once part of pangaea before it drifted away!
- Let's take a closer view! Ready, shiny?
- Aye, aye, tricia!
Tiny, help us steer it down!
[Both grunting]
- Hey, those are giganotosaurus,
Just like our friend laura!
- Indeed they are.
And they have a very old
Triassic theropod relative: eoraptor!
- Like the ones we saw in the triassic, in pangaea?
- Bingo!
But did you know that some of eoraptor's
Other theropod relatives
Ended up an ocean away?
- Can we go see 'em?
- Tricia, shiny,
Care to take us across the ocean?
Both: aye, aye, mr. Conductor!
- Buddy, look!
Carcharodontosaurus!
- Correct!
A close cousin of giganotosaurus,
And also a distant relative of eoraptor!
- So they both are relatives of eoraptor,
But now in the cretaceous,
One species lives on this side of the ocean,
And the other species lives back there on the other side?
- Tiny, you are one smart pteranodon.
- Oh, what a lovely sunset!
But I suppose it's probably time we started for home.
- Right you are, mrs. Pteranodon!
Tricia, let's set a course for zeppelin station!
- Already set, mr. Conductor!
Anyone else want to help me steer?
Mr. Pteranodon?
All: yeah!
Come on, dad!
- Ooh!
[Laughs] hey.
[Chuckles] this is fun!
You know what?
I think I'm getting the hang of this zeppelin thing!
[Bell rings]
- Ahead full!
Next stop, zeppelin station!
- Aw. Already?
- Never fear, mr. P.
We'll be back for more amazing zeppelin flights in the future!
- And the past!
[Laughter]
All: ♪ all aboard the zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This whole amazing day ♪
♪ Just makes me grin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
[All cheering]
- Hi there.
I'm dr. Scott the paleontologist.
This is a map of the earth, our planet.
Earth has seven continents: north america,
South america, europe,
Africa, asia, australia,
And antarctica.
Millions of years ago, all of these continents
Were joined in one gigantic supercontinent
That we call pangaea.
When dinosaurs first appeared on earth in the triassic period,
Over ,, years ago,
They all lived on pangaea.
But the surface of the earth is always changing and moving.
The earth's outer crust is made up of large chunks
Called plates.
Deep below the crust,
Hot molten rocks pushed to the surface
And moved the plates around.
That causes the continents to move as well,
Sometimes breaking apart
And other times bumping into each other.
It took millions of years,
But eventually pangaea broke up into smaller chunks of land
Forming the continents we know today.
As pangaea broke apart,
The groups of dinosaurs onboard each of the continental rafts
Went their separate ways.
So although we find meat-eating theropod dinosaurs
On every continent,
They include many different kinds,
Like t. Rex in north america
And cryolophosaurus in antarctica.
Okay, remember,
Get outside, get into nature,
And make your own discoveries.
- Hello, folks.
It's me, the conductor.
Today the family visits a huge hole in the ground
Called a crater.
But what made it?
Something from outer space?
So come on along with me
On the dinosaur train.
All aboard!
- Tickets! Tickets, please!
- Here you go, mr. Tiny the pretend conductor!
Ow!
Is the sky falling?
- Bless my scales and feathers, mr. The don!
No, the sky is not falling!
- Ow!
Something's falling, like seeds.
- And they're making little shallow holes where they land.
- I like holes.
But I don't like things falling on me from out of nowhere.
- They're falling from the trees.
They're not falling from the sky, don.
- Or outer space! [Laughs]
- Outer space?
Nothing could ever fall from that far away, buddy!
- I have a hypothesis!
If something did fall all the way from outer space,
It would make a huge hole!
- But things from outer space just don't fall on the earth,
Do they?
- Probably not.
So what are we gonna do today?
Play more dinosaur train?
- Or we could ride the real dinosaur train!
Remember we planned a family day at the big pond.
All: hooray!
- Yah--what the-- what now?
We're going where?
All: to the dinosaur train!
[All cheering]
- Hey, dinosaur train!
- So what happened with the seed-pod, don?
- It fell on my head,
And I guess it came from a tree.
At least it didn't come from outer space!
- Yes!
Getting hit by something from outer space would be much worse.
- Has anything from outer space ever fallen on the earth?
- Excellent question, buddy!
Observe.
There are plenty of rocks and things in outer space
That we can't see from down here,
And some do come close to us,
And very occasionally, some of those rocks
Actually fall onto the earth!
- Wow! So the sky does fall?
- The sky doesn't fall, don.
These rocks called asteroids may,
But really hardly ever, hit the earth.
Asteroids come in all different sizes.
Some are smaller than your family nest,
And some are huge--
Much bigger than the dinosaur train!
All: whoa!
- And like I said,
Asteroids don't hit the earth often,
But when they do, they make a nice big hole!
- A huge hole?
- Yes, don, and those holes are called craters!
- Ooh!
I want to see a huge big crater hole that an asteroid made!
Please?
- Hmm.
Mr. And mrs. Pteranodon?
- Kids, instead of the big pond,
What do you say to a trip to see a crater?
All: yeah!!
- Can we see one from the dinosaur train?
- Actually, buddy,
The best way to see a crater this large is from above!
And to do that, we'll need to fly over it
In the dinosaur train zeppelin!
- Yes, let's take the zeppelin!
[All cheering]
- Hey, hey, yeah!
Wait, the zeppelin?
That's the big balloon
That flies even higher than a pteranodon can fly, right?
- Righty-o, mr. P!
- Yeah. [Sighs]
I'm not super comfortable flying at that altitude.
I prefer to do the flying myself,
You know, with my wings.
- Don't worry, dad.
You might even have fun!
I mean, don't you want to see a huge crater?
- Yeah, well--
Aw, you know what?
Let's do it, mr. Conductor!
- Next stop, zeppelin station!
[All cheering]
- Behold-- the dinosaur train zeppelin!
[All oohing]
- Right. I can do this.
- Well, what are we waiting for?
All: ♪ all aboard the zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This whole amazing day ♪
♪ Just makes me grin ♪
♪ ♪
All: ♪ the dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
[Bell rings]
- We've reached cruising altitude.
Quite a view, eh?
- This is so great!
- I agree, buddy.
I love it!
Uh, you okay, hon?
- Whew!
That is a long way down, huh?
Maybe I'll just sit down for a sec.
- I'll sit with you, dad.
- Are we there yet?
- Well, don, even at this speed, it may take a while.
- Is that the crater? Is that?
- Don, how could we see a crater from so far away?
It can't be that big.
- Oh, it's quite a hole, as you'll see, miss shiny.
And we're getting closer to that famous crater!
All: whoo!
- I see mountains and a forest
And more forest...
Are we there yet?
Now are we?
- Don, look!
- Holy herbivores!
What a hole-- I mean, crater!
It's huge! See it?
- [Laughs]
It's kind of hard to miss, don.
- [Sighs] okay, let's see this.
[Squawks]
Whoa, what a crater!
- Okay, let's see what everyone's--
[Gasps]
Leapin' lambeosaurus!
Look at the size of that thing!
- Whoa, I'm glad we came to see this, mr. Conductor!
- [Squawks]
It's bigger than I ever would have imagined!
- That came from an asteroid?
- Yeah, a huge one!
Right?
- Well, I have a hypothesis!
All: just like buddy!
[Laughter]
- The asteroid that made this crater
Was probably not much bigger than this zeppelin.
But since asteroids fly for a very long time
And are coming in at a very fast speed,
Well, when one does hit the earth,
It hits hard and forms a very deep hole!
- Can we get a closer look? [Laughs]
Let's take 'er down, mr. Conductor!
- Care to take the wheel, mr. Pteranodon?
- Oh, yeah!
All: whoo!
- Whoa!
[Laughing hysterically]
[All cheering]
- Mr. Conductor,
What happened to the asteroid that made the crater?
- What an excellent question, buddy!
When the asteroid hit, it vaporized into small pieces!
And sometimes we can find pieces of the actual asteroid
Inside a crater.
- You mean bits of asteroid from outer space?
- Indeedy-do, don!
- What do these space rocks look like?
- Well, sometimes they're shiny!
- Shiny?
[Squawks] maybe we can find some!
- Yeah!
When can we start exploring the crater, mr. Conductor?
- Very soon!
Just let me drop the anchor.
[Chain rattling]
All off board! [Chuckles]
Everyone, let's assemble at the edge of the crater,
And we'll make a plan.
See the crater's rim?
It was formed when the asteroid made that huge impact!
Now, let's all hike down into the crater,
Nice and easy.
No running!
- ♪ Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh ♪
♪ Biggest crater ever ♪
♪ Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh ♪
- Don, let's find space rocks!
Bet I find the first one!
[Squawks]
- Kids, don't run!
- [Laughs]
Bet you I find the shiniest one!
- [Chuckles] oh, well.
Careful, hon!
- It's pretty empty in here, isn't it?
- Yup, just a few little scrub plants.
But not all craters are barren and empty like this one.
Some fill up with water and become "crater lakes,"
And other craters have jungles growing in 'em!
- Look!
This one is the shiniest so far!
Is it a piece of asteroid?
- Hmm.
Shiny, your shiny find is indeed
A fragment of the asteroid from outer space
That created this crater!
[All cheering]
- Outer space asteroid rocks!
[Squawks]
- Hmm. Asteroid fragment.
Yes.
Hmm, not sure.
Quite possibly.
Yes, that is.
Ooh, nice one!
- Mom, are other asteroid rocks
Going to fall on us like that seed did at home?
- That will not happen, dear.
- I had the same concern when I was a troodon tot,
And mother told me not to worry.
Asteroids hardly ever hit the earth.
- Mom and mr. The conductor are right!
- Yeah.
I mean, what are the odds an asteroid would hit us?
- Okay, we're burning daylight!
Time to find more shiny rocks!
Come on!
Well, I don't mean to brag, but...
[Squawks]
Mine is obviously the shiniest!
- I think mine is! - Nuh-uh, mine is!
- Actually, mine is.
- Hmm. How about mine?
All: wow!
- [Squawks]
How amazing is this?
Sitting on the edge of a crater made by a rock from outer space.
- And buddy's hypothesis was right:
Something did fall all the way from outer space,
And it made a huge hole!
- Was that my hypothesis? I forgot!
- Yup, another one of your excellent hypotheses,
Buddy--my buddy.
- I suppose we should be getting back.
- You are right, mrs. P.
All aboard the zeppelin!
- Look! There's the moon!
- It's a full moon tonight, miss tiny.
And if you observe our moon
Through the zeppelin's telescope,
You'll see that the earth isn't the only place
That's been hit by asteroids!
- [Squawks] craters!
Lots of craters!
- Whoa.
I wonder if there are any kid dinosaurs and pterosaurs
That live in outer space.
- Maybe there's a moon don in a moon crater
Collecting rocks!
- With his brother, a moon t. Rex!
[Roars]
- [Squawks] I'll be moon pteranodon tiny!
- And I'm moon shiny!
Wait, I'll be moon mom!
And it's mom's turn to look through the telescope, kids!
Now, move over! - No!
- Come on! - I want a turn!
- Kids, take turns.
Share the telescope.
- Oh, what fantastic kids you have, mr. And mrs. P.
You stay curious, kids!
Keep exploring and asking questions
And finding out the answers!
All: yeah!
We will!!
- [Squawks]
Let's hear it for the zeppelin!
[All cheering]
A-one, two, three, four!
♪ All aboard the zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ This whole amazing day ♪
♪ Just makes me grin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
♪ The dinosaur train zeppelin ♪
♪ ♪
[All cheering]
[Train whistle toots]
- Hi there.
I'm dr. Scott the paleontologist.
The prehistoric world was filled
With all kinds of amazing sights,
Like herds of migrating tyrannosaurs,
Flying pteranodons,
And beautiful waterfalls.
Even though zeppelins didn't exist back then,
It would've been a great way
To see all those sights from above.
But what exactly is a zeppelin,
And how is it different from a blimp?
All zeppelins have a rigid frame made of metal
With a special fabric stretched over it.
On the other hand,
Blimps don't have a rigid frame.
A blimp is like a giant balloon
Filled with special gases
That make it float.
Both blimps and zeppelins have engines to make them fly,
And both have a gondola compartment underneath
Where the pilot and passengers ride.
Imagine floating high in the sky
Enjoying the amazing world of dinosaurs.
Now, that would be fun.
Okay, remember,
Get outside, get into nature,
And make your own discoveries.
- We love playing games...
- Like all aboard.
- You can play too online at:
- And lots of other games.
- There's so much to learn about all kinds of dinosaurs.
Both:
- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ Dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪
- ♪ We're gonna ride ♪
- ♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪
[Train whistle toots]
- ♪ The dinosaur train ♪
03x13 - Zeppelin: Pangaea/Zeppelin: Crater
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Set in a whimsical prehistoric world of jungles, swamps, active volcanoes and oceans, all filled with dinosaur and other prehistoric animal life, and connected by a train line known eponymously as the Dinosaur Train
Set in a whimsical prehistoric world of jungles, swamps, active volcanoes and oceans, all filled with dinosaur and other prehistoric animal life, and connected by a train line known eponymously as the Dinosaur Train