Jurassic CSI
Dino detective, Dr. Phil Manning, launches a full-scale investigation to unearth how dinosaurs really looked and lived. Jurassic CSI goes into the minds, under the skin and inside the bones of the biggest, most impressive beasts ever to walk the planet. In this six-part series, Dr. Manning doesn't stick to convention or even his own discipline on his perpetual quest to expand what we know about dinosaurs. With privileged access to some of the world's most sophisticated technologies, from crime scene 3D mapping technology to an image machine one million times stronger than a chest X-ray, Jurassic CSI challenges long held assumptions and poses radical questions about our understanding of dinosaurs.
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- Documentary
Dino detective, Dr. Phil Manning, launches a full-scale investigation to unearth how dinosaurs really looked and lived. Jurassic CSI goes into the minds, under the skin and inside the bones of the biggest, most impressive beasts ever to walk the planet. In this six-part series, Dr. Manning doesn't stick to convention or even his own discipline on his perpetual quest to expand what we know about dinosaurs. With privileged access to some of the world's most sophisticated technologies, from crime scene 3D mapping technology to an image machine one million times stronger than a chest X-ray, Jurassic CSI challenges long held assumptions and poses radical questions about our understanding of dinosaurs.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2011
Episode 1
In Living Color
Wed, Sep 9, 2026 46 mins
What colors were dinosaurs? Dino detective Dr. Phil Manning employs one of the world's most precise imaging machines to search for color traces in fossils to reveal some answers.
Episode 2
Inside T.Rex
Wed, Sep 9, 2026 46 mins
The T.rex was notoriously small-brained. Did this render him a lumbering animal that killed by opportunity, or could his brain have possessed the right tools of a calculated hunter?
Episode 3
Skin Deep
Wed, Sep 9, 2026
Palaeontologist Phil Manning uses new technology to superimpose scientifically accurate skin on a dinosaur, revealing more about dinosaur's lives and behaviours.
Episode 4
Supersize
Wed, Sep 9, 2026
Goes into the minds, under the skin, and inside the bones of the biggest beasts ever to walk the planet.
Episode 5
T.Rex Trauma
Wed, Sep 9, 2026 47 mins
In the world of the ultimate apex predators, dinosaurs suffered colossal injuries and limped through a world rife with deadly infection and diseases. How did these amazing beasts manage to thrive?
Episode 6
Walk Like a Dinosaur
Wed, Sep 9, 2026 46 mins
Paleontologists have always struggled to answer the question, how did the dinosaurs move? New science now reveals evidence of quirky movements that dinosaurs made 70 million years ago.