Monsters Resurrected

***Monsters Resurrected*** is an American entertain series that was created for the Discovery Channel. This program reconstructs animals from the Cenozoic and Mesozoic eras. It's also called as ***Mega Beasts***.

### _Terror Bird_

The famous terror bird _Titanis_ was depicted as a mortal predator that competed with the smaller but equally aggressive Edward's wolf and _Smilodon_. The force and power of the neck muscles is shown by a rendering of the beast hunting a _Hipparion_ in the beginning of the episode. To kill it, it drives its beak into the vertebral column, severing the spinal cord. Another example of this power is shown when the creature kills a species of ground sloth called _Glossotherium_, using the same method.

### _T-Rex of the Deep_

In this episode, the _Tylosaurus_ is depicted as the main predator of the Cretaceous seas, competing with _Cretoxyrhina_ and _Styxosaurus_, eventually driving the former to extinction. It's also shown competing with other _Tylosaurus_ and killing them.

### _Biggest Killer Dino_

_Spinosaurus_ is depicted as the apex predator of its time, slaughtering _Rugops_, _Carcharodontosaurus_ and _Sarcosuchus_. It fights with a sexless _Carcharodontosaurus_ and emerges victorious by smacking its face with a swipe of its claw. The beast gets attacked by a _Sarcosuchus_, and quickly kills the crocodile with a bite to the neck before disemboweling her. During the heat, the theropod attempts to steal a dead _Aegyptosaurus_ from a pack of female _Rugops_, but their numbers are unstoppable; one of the creatures bites the spinosaur's claw, while another one clamps her jaws on its massive tail. Afterwards, the _Spinosaurus_ slams to the ground, breaking its neutral spine and dying. The pack feasts on it.

### _Great American Predator_

In this episode, the _Acrocanthosaurus_ is depicted as an apex predator, strong enough to kill prey ten times its size, such as the herbivorous dinosaur _Paluxysaurus_. Afterward, a young _Acrocanthosaurus_ is shown being driven off its meal by a pack of _Deinonychus_ and being forced to hunt harder prey, such as the ankylosaurid _Sauropelta_.

### _Bear Dog_

This episode features the bear-dog _Amphicyon_ as the new top predator of North America, able to defeat the entelodont _Daeodon_ using its intelligence and smaller size to outcompete it. After five years of dominating the landscape, the bear-dog grows bigger, but then its nemesis _Epicyon_ appears and competes with it. They begin to attack and slaughter the offspring in the burrow, and in the end, the canids outcompete and kill the new threats.

### _Giant Ripper_

In this episode, the people recreate _Megalania_. Hunting _Procoptodon_ and _Diprotodon_, it almost had no competition, until the humans arrived.

## Inaccuracies about _Bear Dog_ replacements

- A bear-dog called _Cynodictis_ was meant to replace _Amphicyon_ in the episode, but got cut in the process.
- _Archaeotherium_ was also going to replace _Daeodon_, resulting in it getting removed from the series.
- _Epicyon_ was going to be named as _Hesperocyon_ or _Borophagus_ during the production, but the two species got scrapped, with only _Epicyon_ appearing.