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Deadly Dinosaurs

Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the most deadly animals to have ever walked the earth, dinosaurs. Steve goes on a mission to uncover what was deadlier than the dinosaurs, from monsoons and super-sized sandstorms to ballistic bacteria and gory gas.

Deadly Dinosaurs

Steve Backshall looks back at the most awesome experiments over the series and chooses his highlights.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

The evolution of the predators who lived 550 million years ago, and how the first amphibians migrated from sea to land.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Three hundred million years ago, the forests were ruled by insects. This was a world in which giant dragonflies battled with two-foot-wide spiders.

Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

On the supercontinent Pangaea, early therapsids, creatures more similar to mammals than reptiles, fight for survival alongside other animals. In the carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods take over and grow into giants.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. Dan investigates a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, while John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of 'Tutmania'.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Dan discovers a series of anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.

Secrets of the Pyramids

Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids.

The X-Creatures

Chris Packham searches for clues related to the existence of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. He also visits Australia to learn about a giant lizard called Megalania.

The X-Creatures

Chris Packham sets out in search of stories about Bigfoot, a mythical ape-like creature that has been the focus of many fiction novels, movies and documentaries over the years.

The X-Creatures

Chris Packham explores the English countryside to learn about mythical big cats such as the Beast of Bodmin and Beast of Exmoor.

The X-Creatures

Chris Packham investigates whether the thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, has truly gone extinct. The species lived in Australia and Tasmania.

Ancient Voices

A dig hopes to excavate the 2000-year-old tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's First Emperor.

Walking With Cavemen

The lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens.

Walking With Cavemen

Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago.

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Horizon

Are sparrows and blackbirds the direct descendants of a vicious group of dinosaurs including the velociraptor?

Ice Age Giants

Discover the beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's adventure begins in the Land of the Sabre-tooth.

Ice Age Giants

Alice ventures to the parts of the Northern Hemisphere hit the hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence of a fight to the death.

Ice Age Giants

Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the ice age. This was the last time that giants like mammoths, woolly rhinos and sabre-toothed cats ruled our planet.

Wildlife on One

Once cast as B-movie dinosaurs, Central America's green iguanas are revealing complex social lives that offer fresh clues to prehistoric dinosaur behaviour.

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