Nice birdy! From IMAX "Flying Monsters 3-D"

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Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it's usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, which reached unbelievable sizes and was related more closely to lizards, enjoyed remarkable success at life up in the air, where it monitored the heavens and chased ancient insects for eons.

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​Most of us here in Colorado can relate to the rush of skiing down a mountain of fresh powder. But that rush is nothing compared to the heart-stopping, breath-seizing thrill of entering a tornado's destructive vortex of violently rotating winds. But for the past eight years, that was the mission of IMAX filmmaker, cinematographer and professional storm chaser Sean Casey. Westword caught up with Casey to discuss his feature-length,3D directorial debut, Tornado Alley, which opens at the Museum of Nature & Science this week.

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