He is said to have died as a mature adolescent who never reached his full size, and that the process of his fossilization was so perfect it preserved even the injuries and diseases he sustained in his life, including - amongst others - lumps where his ribs healed after their break and the raging infection on his middle toe. Big Al was found near Howe Quarry in the Morrison Formation of North America. A year later, Al, now 33 feet (10 meters) long, begins to show signs of sexual maturity as the crests on his head are beginning to redden. He arrives to drink at a pond, but the other animals are made nervous by his presence, and the smell of blood he brings with him puts off a pair of Stegosaurus who were trying to mate. The Ballad of Big Al is the story of an Allosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur, which lived in the Late Jurassic around 145 million years ago. His presence however makes other dinosaurs around the pond nervous and the smell of blood he brings with him puts off a pair of The following are similar programs, produced by the BBC: She brings them to a river bank and the hatchlings start to hunt for insects. When the mother temporarily leaves the hatchlings behind to hunt for herself, the brood are attacked by a year-old Allosaurus, who kills and makes off with one of the hatchlings. We see a fossilized Later, the baby's target is the insects and Al accidentally fell into water and the others have a lot to learn about catching prey. The story opens as Big Al hatches from an egg buried in a nest chamber underground. He wanders into a scrub forest, where he attempts to hunt a flock of Dryosaurus, but the smaller dinosaurs are too swift and easily escape. Watch offline.
The Ballad of Big Al - broadcast in North America as Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special - is the first special in the Walking with Dinosaurs franchise. Unable to escape, the trapped Allosaurus pair die of exhaustion, and their corpses are left to be eaten by a flock of Anurognathus. It originally aired in Christmas 2000 in the United Kingdom before airing in North America on the Discovery Channel on April 8, 2001. Al is then shown at the age of two years. As the dry season turns to a drought, Al's limp grows worse as his broken toe becomes badly infected. Despite that, Harry's recorded a track called 'The Ballad of Alan Shearer', an affectionate ode to the Premier League's greatest ever goalscorer, to soundtrack a podcast which shares the same title. The first episode is not listed because it was not in the week's top 30 programs. A large female Allosaurus approaches, having been attracted to the smell of the Stegosaurus carcass, but becomes trapped herself. Three more years pass, and Al, now 30 feet (9 meters) long, joins several other Allosaurus in stalking a herd of Diplodocus migrating across a salt lake. It focuses on an Allosaurus (Allosaurus fragilis) named Big Al and his constant struggle to survive in a world filled with danger. Fans love it. It first aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom during Christmas 2000. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Piecing together the evidence from his bones and those of other animals found in the Morrison Formation, we could reconstruct how Al may have lived and died. Harry Harris is a 31-year-old troubadour from mid Wales who grew up idolising not a number nine, but a number eight, Big Al's Match of the Day sidekick Ian Wright. Al's ghost passes by his own skeleton and a nest of fossilized eggs, before transitioning 145 million years to the Late Jurassic.