Television: A Modern Jurassic Family

Discovery's digital dinos mix fact and guesswork

You haven't seen an animal pee until you've seen Postosuchus lift its tail and issue a watery blast to mark its territory. Nor have you seen animal passion until you've seen two beefy Tyrannosaurs make eight tons of back-to-belly-bumpin' jungle love. And once you've seen Walking with Dinosaurs (Discovery, April 16, 7 p.m. E.T.), well, you still won't have seen real animals do any of that. But you'll come as close as technology allows. The critters in this three-hour special, which drew more than half the viewing audience when the BBC aired it last fall, are pure computer animation and animatronic...

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