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In Balushistan, a remote northern province of Pakistan, French paleontologist Jean-Loup Welcomme spent five years finding the fossilized remains of the greatest land mammal of all time, the Balushiterium, which disappeared some 25 million years ago. It has the feet of a rhinoceros, a bovine body, the neck of an okapi, the head of a tapir. Distant cousin to the rhino, it stood 16 feet tall, weighed 20 tons and consumed a ton of food each day. What kind of life did this strange animal lead? For the first time, in January 2000, a television crew followed Jean-Loup Welcomme on his sixth expedition. This scientist succeeded in befriending the king of the Bugtis and is now the only person authorized to work in this forbidden region.

France / United Kingdom - 2001 - 52 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Thierry Machado Scénario Thierry Machado, Thierry Piantanida Image Thierry Machado, Sylvain Maillard, Benoît Nicalin Son Eric Ferroud-Plattet Montage Annie Coppens, Karl Bougier Musique Fabrizio Sirotti

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