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A new series has [scored / scores] 100 per cent on the review site Rotten Tomatoes and is at number one on Netflix. The mini-series is a four-episode Netflix [document / documentary] . It is called The Dinosaurs. It has [powerful / powerfully] figures from Hollywood [behind / ahead] it. Superstar actor Morgan Freeman narrated [it / them] . Legendary director Steven Spielberg is the executive [produce / producer] . He also directed the blockbuster movie Jurassic Park. Mr Spielberg used 50 [expats / experts] on prehistory to help make the show. They recreated what life on Earth looked [such / like] between 235 million and 66 million years [ago / age] . The four episodes document how the earliest dinosaurs developed, survived for millions of years, and became [exact / extinct] .

The producers used CGI to create the [landscapers / landscapes] and dinosaurs. CGI designers recreated the [ancient / accent] supercontinent of Pangea. This was a single land [moss / mass] that slowly broke [apart / part] over tens of millions of years to form the continents of today. The designers also made volcanic eruptions, sand storms, [bloods / floods] , million-year-old forests, and (of course) the dinosaurs. The series starts with the [birth / born] of tiny dinosaurs. It [sends / ends] with the enormous T. rex and triceratops, which Freeman says are "the most iconic dinosaurs of [whole / all] time". It also shows us the asteroid impact event that killed [off / up] the dinosaurs. The Guardian newspaper reviewed the series. It said, "the [geological / geology] and meteorology are powerfully rendered".

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