Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real

Playing now on Animal Planet (channel), “Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real” is a magnificent piece of work showing how dragons could have existed.

It starts with a premise: What if we found a dragon corpse--what would it tell us about dragons? The show then shows technical and scientific data of other animals to back up dragon capabilities, including breathing fire.

Now-a-days CGI is all the rage (remember the first time you saw “Jurassic Park?” ), but Animal Planet makes good work of it, chronicling the life of several types of dragons and showing how they might have evolved and survived the massive extinction that did in the dinos.

Supposedly three years in the making, this one shines. (And it's narrated by Patrick Stewart!) Look out, Sci Fi, the Discovery Network is producing top-rate stuff (not “Mansquito”, ahem).

Catch it on AP or order the DVD.