Jurassic CSI

Dr. Phil Manning examines just how the planet's ultimate predator's brain was hardwired for the kill. Tyrannosaurus rex was notoriously small-brained. Did this render him a lumbering animal that killed by opportunity? Or, could his brain have possessed all the right tools of a calculated hunter? With the most perfectly preserved T. Rex skull ever collected, Dr. Manning employs a CT scanner to unlock the fossil's mysteries.

Dinosaurs vanished from the earth millions of years ago leaving only a handful of clues to their existence, including fossils and footprints. Such scant evidence has meant that paleontologists have always struggled to answer the question, how did the dinosaurs move? Treating fossils and footprints like crime scene evidence, Dr. Phil Manning employs cutting-edge crime scene technology in Spain to create a 3D virtual world of one of the most spectacular dino stomping grounds on the globe and reveals new evidence of quirky movements that dinosaurs made 70 million years ago.

In the cutthroat 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 despite their violent surroundings? Investigating a debilitating injury on the largest T. rex ever found, where muscle and tendon were ripped from a bone, Phil creates 3-D models of the healed T. rex's arm. Remarkably, he finds that the wrecked arm bone rebuilt itself.

What colors were dinosaurs? We know little about their actual color, and now maverick dino detective Dr. Phil Manning tries to find out more. He utilizes one of the world's most precise imaging machines which uses highly focused beams one million times stronger than a chest X-ray to search for traces of color pigments chemistry in fossils in order to uncover some answers.

Giant dinosaurs seemed to defy physical laws to become the biggest land animals ever. Paleontologist Phil Manning will use ultrasound, Finite Element Analysis, some rocket science and the biggest dinosaurs in the world to to ask if there are even bigger dinosaurs out there waiting to be to be unearthed.

What did dinosaurs really look like? Unorthodox paleontologist Dr. Phil Manning embarks on a quest to create the most scientifically accurate dinosaur model ever made. Armed with rare fossilized skin samples, the latest forensic technology and a world-class model maker, Dr. Manning creates a unique model to bring us closer to understanding how dinosaurs looked, lived and behaved.