02x05 - Shiny and Snakes/Tiny Loves Flowers

[bunniefuu]

Hello, folks. It's me the conductor. Today we're gonna

Take the dinosaur train and discover a large cretaceous

Snake, the sanajeh, so come on along with me on the dinosaur

Train. All aboard!

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ [whistle blows]

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ once upon a time

There was a mom her name was mrs. Pteranodon

Sitting on her nest she heard a scratching

And said... ♪ Oh, boy! My eggs are

Hatching!

♪ One by one her kids popped free

Baby pteranodons , , ♪

I'll name you tiny, shiny, and don.

♪ But tiny said... ♪ Wait! There's one more, mom!

♪ 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 ♪

[Whistle blows] ♪ the dinosaur train ♪

[Roaring]

Awk! Ok. Now wave on the breeze like a tall, tall tree.

Ok. The next leader in nature trackers follow the leader is--

Hey, look! It's howard! I know. Let's play follow the

Dragonfly.

Yeah!

[Buzz] aah!

You ok, shiny? Why did you yell?

Yell? I didn't yell.

Oh, look. A snake. He's so beautiful.

Hey, shiny. Is the snake why you yelled?

No, not at all. I yelled because I was excited to fly up

Here. I wanted to see if...

The lambeosaurus family was coming by. Nope. No one there.

Of course shiny's not afraid of snakes. She's a nature

Tracker, and snakes are part of nature.

Tiny's right. Nice snaky.

Leaving so soon? Oh, well. Bye, snaky. Great tracking you.

Shiny, that's a great idea!

We should track a snake!

I am tracking a snake.

I mean, track a bigger snake, a really huge snake

Like--like sanajeh!

Sa-sa-sanajeh?

But, tiny, sanajeh isn't even real. It's just a scary

Story dad tells us on dark and stormy nights.

Heh heh. Ooh, yeah. That story about the mean, huge,

Dinosaur-eating snake.

But snakes aren't scary, and just think. If sanajeh is real,

We could be the first ones to track it.

We could go on the dinosaur train and as mr. Conductor. I

Bet he'll know if sanajeh's real.

Mom, dad!

Can we take the dinosaur train? We want to find out if

Sanajeh's real.

And if it is, we want to track it!

Can we, please?

Really? You want to find sanajeh?

It's ok if we can't go or if you're busy or just need to

Stay here.

You know what? I'd be happy to take you. It will be an

Adventure.

Huh?

Uh, are you sure, hon?

I'm sure! Let's go see if we can solve the mystery and find

Sanajeh. Ready team? To the dinosaur train!

[Cheering] hooray.

Tickets, tickets, please.

Hello, pteranodon family.

Hello, mr. Conductor!

Mr. Conductor, I have a question. Is the sanajeh snake

Real?

Have you ever seen one?

Well, I've never met a sanajeh, but as I understand

It, it's absolutely real. Let's take a look.

Whoa!

That's so long!

It is. It's as big as-- oh, ned, ned brachiosaurus, can

You pop in here for a second?

You rang, mr. Conductor?

Sure did. From head to tail, sanajeh is even longer than the

Neck of a young brachiosaurus.

Whoa!

A snake like that must live in the hugest hole ever.

That is...quite a snake.

I guess that's why everyone thinks sanajeh is so scary.

I don't think it's scary.

Sanajeh is part of nature like any snake.

That's true, tiny, but snakes still need their space.

They are predators, creatures that go after prey, their food.

But how can snakes get their prey without arms or legs?

Different ways actually.

Some, like sanajeh, use their strong muscles to squeeze their

Prey.

So, um, what exactly does a sanajeh eat? Not dinosaurs or

Pterosaurs, right?

Well, nothing your size, that's for sure. Sanajeh eats

Small animals.

So if sanajeh are real, where do they live?

Far away maybe? Too far to visit?

Nothing's too far away for the dinosaur train, shiny.

Oh.

I think we can make a special stop. That ok, mr.

Pteranodon?

Yes! Let's go see a sanajeh!

Next stop sanajeh center station in another part of the

Cretaceous time period.

[Whistle blows]

Good luck, pteranodon family! I hope you get to meet a sanajeh.

Bye!

Awk! This is perfect! We get to use our nature tracker

Skills and actually track some nature.

Yeah! Let's track some nature!

How do we actually track nature?

Huddle up, team pteranodon.

First tracking rule--we all stay together. No wandering

Off, right?

Right!

Tracking is all about using your senses to get clues to

Help you find something in nature. So how do you kids

Think you should track a snake?

Use our eyes to look for snake tracks?

Snakes make tracks without feet?

Maybe slither tracks. Let's look.

Nope. No slither tracks.

Guess we should go.

Oh, I know. We can use our ears to listen at holes and

Hear if any snakes are inside.

Hello?

Um, didn't the conductor say snakes need their space? Heh. I

Think it's better to keep clear of their holes.

Oh, right. No heads in holes.

I've got it. We can let buddy lead and sniff out

Sanajeh with his super t. Rex nose!

Buddy can sniff out anything.

[Sniffing] hmm. I'm not sure what I smell,

But I smell something.

I say...this way.

I'm tracking, I'm tracking.

Tracking means following a creature's tracks. Unh!

Ohh! I've got an idea!

It's a rock and a vine.

It may look like an ordinary rock and a vine, but when you

Tie them together and drag them, listen.

[Low scraping] sounds snaky.

I call it a sanajeh sound maker.

Hey. What about this?

Calling sanajeh! Can you hear me?

Ha ha ha!

Ok. Great. We tried, but there's no sanajeh. I say last

One back to the station is a rotten dinosaur egg!

Now hold on, shiny. A little more time searching, and then

We'll head back. Buddy, lead on.

[Sniffing] hmm. This way.

Ha ha ha!

Sanajeh? Hello? Sanajeh?

Whoa! What was that?

Hey. Where's my stick?

Oh! And my sanajeh sound maker! Hey. Whoever's taking

Our things, no fair hiding.

Come out and show yourself!

[Gasp] a sanajeh.

You wanted to ssssee me?

Snake. Big snake.

Um, we were just wondering why you took our things, but

It's ok. Maybe we should go home.

No! My brother and sister didn't do anything to you, and

You took their things and scared us! That's just mean!

And I don't like it one bit!

Aah!

Are you ok?

I'm sssorry. Oh, please don't yell at me.

Um, you sound scared?

Well, of course I'm scared.

You're pterosaurs with pointy beaks!

We are? Oh, we are.

I always heard that pterosaurs were scary monsters!

I am terrified of pterosaurs.

You're not going to swoop down on me and att*ck, are you?

Swoop down and att*ck? Why would we do that?

Because you're K*llers.

That's what I always heard you pterosaurs do.

No. My family would never att*ck you. We were looking for

You, but we just wanted to meet you.

We love to meet new creatures.

We actually heard you were the one who was scary.

Me?

Yeah. Where we come from, everyone says sanajeh are mean

And scary.

We even heard you eat dinosaurs.

Heh. It's true. Sorry.

But I'm not mean. I am a carnivore, so I eat meat, but I

Don't like to att*ck anything.

I only eat when I'm hungry.

So I guess we both heard a lot of wrong things about each

Other. Ok. Maybe we should start over. I'm shiny

Pteranodon, and this is my sister tiny and my brothers

Buddy and don, and this is our dad.

Hi!

I'm sana sanajeh. Ooh. It's lovely to meet you. I don't get

A lot of visitors out here. Do you think maybe we could be

Friends?

Sure, but why did you take our stuff just before?

Oh. I'm so sorry. Your toys looked like so much fun. I just

Wanted to try them, too, but I was afraid to ask. Here. Please

Take them back.

Thanks!

Sana, how did you get our toys without us seeing you?

And how did you grab them without any arms?

I don't need arms and legs.

My body's strong muscles let me slither very stealthily.

As for grabbing things without hands, I can easily pick things

Up with my mouth like this.

[Chomp] got it!

Ooh! A game! Don't let the gourd hit the ground!

Ohh!

[Giggling] [train whistle blows]

Oops! That's the train, kids.

Aw.

Please come back. I'll take you on the whole tour, and

Thanks for showing me I shouldn't believe scary stories

About creatures I haven't met.

You showed us that, too.

Thanks!

Bye, sana! Great to meet you!

Good-bye. Sssee you sssoon!

Slither, slither, slither.

Slither.

We're snakes like sana!

Uh-oh! Shiny, look out!

Hey, little snaky. How are you?

[Hisses] you're not scared anymore,

Shiny?

Pfft! Not at all. Snakes are part of nature, right, snaky?

Ha ha ha! I think he wants to play. Let's all play slither

Like a sanajeh.

Slither, slither, slither.

Ho ho ho!

Ha ha ha!

Slither!

Hi, there. I'm dr. Scott, the paleontologist. And this is

Sanajeh, an -foot snake that lived with the dinosaurs in the

Cretaceous time period. Sanajeh is big, but there have been

Plenty of bigger snakes. Not long after the age of dinosaurs,

An african snake named gigantophis grew over feet

Long. And then there was titanoboa that lived in south

America. This huge snake grew up to feet long. That's bigger

Than a school bus. Snakes in the mesozoic era, like snakes today,

Don't have arms or legs, so most of the bones in a snake are back

Bones, or vertebrae. And lots of ribs. All snakes are reptiles,

And all of them are predators too. Many of these slithering

Serpents have an amazing ability to catch prey using their whole

Body. Some snakes, including sanajeh and pythons living

Today, open their mouths really wide, allowing them to swallow

Animals that are much bigger than their heads. Snakes are

Some of the most amazing creatures on earth. Even though

They don't have any legs or claws, they're excellent

Predators that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. Ok,

Remember, get outside, get into nature, and make your own

Discoveries.

Hello, folks. It's me the conductor. Today the kids from

Pteranodon terrace will learn that in nature everything

Changes, so come on along with me on the dinosaur train. All

Aboard!

♪ I get to see my favorite flowers

Oh, how I love them so they fill my eyes

With pretty colors their smell flies up my... ♪

No!

[Squawks] that sounded like tiny!

It came from that field!

Tiny! What happened?

Uh--it--we--they--uh-- what's the matter, honey?

Troodon got your tongue?

My flowers!

Ok, heard you that time.

Oh, my. Tell us what happened, tiny.

Are you ok, tiny?

Are we having a party?

My beautiful yellow flowers were so pretty, and now

They're--they're gone!

It's sad your flowers are gone, but that's how nature

Works, sweetie. There's a time for flowers to bloom and a time

For them to fade.

In nature, things change all the time.

They do?

Yep. Look up at that tree.

I can remember when it was a little sapling, only this high.

The trees are still here, but my flowers are dead.

You know, I remember flying over the big pond recently and

Spotting a field of yellow buttercups.

Buttercups?! Can we go, mom?

Please, please, please can we go?

Absolutely.

Yay!

And we get to ride the dinosaur train. Woo hoo!

[Squawks] to the dinosaur train!

[Train whistle blows] > [sadly] ♪ off to see

My favorite flowers oh, how I love them so

They fill my eyes with pretty colors

Their smell flies up my nose ♪ [crying]

Tiny, it's going to be all right. Look, things are already

Better. We're all aboard the dinosaur train on an adventure.

It's a perfect expedition for...

The nature trackers!

Trackers.

Yeah, I guess.

And you love being a nature tracker, tiny.

I know, but all I really care about now is seeing some

Buttercups.

Then that's our nature tracker challenge.

Find tiny's flowers!

Well, hello, pteranodon family. Where to today, nature

Trackers?

To the big pond, mr. Conductor, to find tiny's

Favorite flowers.

And when we're there, who knows what other amazing nature

We'll see?

Ha, now that's what I like to see--kids heading into nature,

Making discoveries, asking scientific questions.

Mr. Conductor, I have a question.

Miss tiny, I am ready.

Why did my favorite buttercup flowers wilt and die?

Hmm. I'm sorry about your flowers, tiny, but that is a

Great question. And the short answer is, in nature everything

Changes.

Ooh!

Didn't I say that?

It must be the hat, dear.

Hmm!

This is a life cycle chart.

It shows how nature--in this case, a flowering plant--

Changes over time. A flower starts as a seed in the ground,

Which changes into a sprout.

The sprout pushes up through the soil and becomes a plant. Then

The plant changes, growing flowers like your buttercups,

Tiny. But the flower's work isn't done.

[Sighs] this is the part when the flowers wilt.

The flower changes again. It wilts and falls off the plant,

And its seeds return into the soil, where--ta da!--They grow

New plants, and the cycle starts all over again.

Bringing even more changes.

Right. The cycle goes round and round. Tiny, your buttercups

Went through a life cycle, so while you're out nature-tracking

Today, keep an eye out for changes you see in nature, and

The perfect place to observe such things is at the big pond!

Next stop, big pond!

[Tiny squawks] [frog croaks]

The nature trackers have reached the big pond beach.

Right. First things first.

Find my flowers! Mom said they were just over that way.

I'll go flower-tracking with you, tiny.

Fine. Then don and I will try looking over...over this-a-way.

So long, nature trackers!

We shall return.

[Both gasp] my flowers! Aren't they

Beautiful?

Yeah. They're pretty pretty.

And they smell so sweet.

[Sniffs] oh, no! I guess we made it to the big pond just in time.

See? There's some of that change the conductor was talking about.

Those buttercups are still fresh and yellow, but those are

Droopy.

But I bet they'll drop their seeds on the ground.

Maybe turn into plants with beautiful flowers!

The flowers, they are a-changin'.

Come on, buddy!

[Both laughing] nope, no buttercups around

Here.

But I just got an idea. Help me push the sand into a pile,

Don.

Aye, aye, master nature tracker. Um, why?

Remember how much fun we had making our nature tracker club

House? Well, my idea is we make something here at the beach with

Sand.

Wait. We're not finding buttercups? Are we making

A clubhouse?

Sort of. It'll be a sandy nature castle for little

Creatures here on the beach, decorated with stones, shells,

And other cool stuff. First we dig a big hole.

[Gasps] a hole?

Mmm!

There! One sandy nature castle finished.

Oh, no, it isn't. It needs a moat around the outside, full

Of water and hungry plesiosaurs.

♪ Diggin', diggin' diggin' a moat ♪

There. Now it just needs water-- look out! Here comes the

Wave!

♪ La la loo! ♪ Henry!

Hey, hey! If it isn't my old pals, shiny and don!

Look what we made, henry.

Wow! Look at all the gorgeous shells and seaweed! It's like

A palace!

It's a nature castle for you.

Me? A mansion like that?

That's why we made it, for our beach friends to stay

Inside.

I don't mind if I do. Look at me, movin' on up! Uh-oh!

Wave!

[Shivers] pfft!

Oh! How lovely. Henry, is this your place?

Sure is, stella. My pals shiny and don made it for me.

Kids, say hello to stella.

Hello.

Stella sea star. Pleased to make your acquaintance.

You're welcome to stay here, too, stella. We put rocks in the

Side, so you can cling to them.

Wow! Me, a lowly sea star, in a palace! It's a dream come

True.

Hmm. Wait. Don't move in yet, guys. Something's missing from

Our sandy nature castle, but I don't know what yet.

Whoa! That is one nice sand castle.

It's a nature castle, buddy.

Hi, buddy. Hi, tiny. They made it for me and stella.

Hi, henry! Hi, stella!

Did you guys have any luck nature-tracking?

We did. We found a whole field of my flowers. I brought

Some along. You can even put some on your nature castle.

Ooh!

That does look good, doesn't it?

Fantastic!

[Bee buzzing] it even gives insects a place

To pick up pollen on their way home.

[Squawks] it's beautiful, shiny.

Thanks to your flowers, tiny.

After you.

No, madam. After you.

[Wave crashing] uh, you guys hear something?

No!

[Squawks] what is it, kids?

Our sandy nature castle. It was so beautiful, and--

A wave just washed it away!

Oh, I'm sorry, kids. I can see you're all disappointed.

Well, the beach is part of nature, right? And like somebody

Said, nature always changes.

Yeah.

I guess our nature castle is part of that nature cycle, like

Your flowers, tiny.

Exactly, don.

[Shivers] trust us, nature's always changing, right, stella?

Stella? [Gasps] stella!

I'm here, and, yes, change is the only thing about nature that

Doesn't change.

Mm-hmm.

So, shiny, do you know what this means? We can build another

Nature castle, a bigger and better one!

And this time, we could even use bark to decorate the walls.

Fancy!

And more of my flowers.

Can we, please, please, please come back tomorrow?

Heh heh! Are you kidding?

I want to help build that nature castle with you.

Hooray!

Heh heh! Stella and I look forward to it.

Ok, team pteranodon, time to head back to the train for home.

Got one. My favorite flowers are just about gone for now.

[Sniffs] I have to enjoy them while they last.

Bye, henry! Bye, stella!

Oh, that is one big happy family.

Kooky, but happy. Ok, let's find a branch and float around.

Oh! Ha ha ha! Go with the flow! Oh, yeah!

I like that one!

See? Look. Tiny, new flowers are starting to grow back.

Tiny new flowers for tiny.

[All laugh]

Hi there. I'm dr. Scott, the paleontologist. Did you

Know that the very first flowers appeared near the end

Of the age of dinosaurs? Yup, that means jurassic dinosaurs

Like stegosaurus and apatosaurus never saw or

Smelled a flower. During the triacic and jurassic periods,

There were plenty of plants around, from tiny ferns to

Giant conifers. But not a single flower. So plant-eating

Dinosaurs had to find something else to eat.

Flowering plants showed up in the cretaceous period and soon

Took over the plant world.

There were big flowering trees like magnolias and maples, and

Beautiful little flowering plants. Flowers added a lot

More color to the cretaceous world, and a whole new kind of

Food for plant-eating dinosaurs. So when you see a

Flower, remember, they've been around for millions of years,

Since the age of dinosaurs.

Ok, get outside, get into nature, and make your own

Discoveries.

We love playing games like "all aboard." You can play

Too, online at pbskids.org.

And lots of other games.

There's so much to learn about all kinds of dinosaurs.

We're gonna ride the dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ dinosaur train ♪

♪ Dinosaur train ♪ ♪ we're gonna ride ♪

♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪ ♪ the dinosaur train ♪