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Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.
Science of Walking With Beasts
This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet.
Science of Walking With Beasts
A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.
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Walking with Beasts
Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land.
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Walking with Beasts
A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.
Walking with Beasts
Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons! The only threat to an adult would have been the Hyaenodon which was the size of a rhino.
Walking with Beasts
The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat.
Walking with Beasts
Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.
Walking with Beasts
Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators.
Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites
Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.
Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites
Featured species are the ophthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.
Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites
Featured species are the Leaellynasaura and the Tyrannosaurus.
Walking with Dinosaurs
In a time when monstrous creatures ruled the earth, South America was the land of the giants. Nigel Marven walks among these gigantic creatures, on a quest to witness the largest predator bringing down the largest prey.
Walking with Dinosaurs
Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call Big Al.
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Walking with Dinosaurs
This scientific detective story traces the evidence for Big Al the allosaur's existence, using clues from climate change studies, forensics, and fossil records to bring him back to life.
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Walking with Dinosaurs
Nigel Marven journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia to track the owner of the largest claws of all time, the Therizinosaurus. His adventure yields a series of surprising clues, a nest, footprints, dung, and more.
How to Build a Dinosaur
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together.
The Lost World
Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs.
The Lost World
The explorers find themselves trapped on the plateau high above the Amazon jungle, surrounded by prehistoric horrors.
Horizon
Exploring the idea of human coexistence with dinosaurs. Had the species not disappeared from the face of earth ages ago, keeping them as pets could have been a possibility.
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.
How to Build a Dinosaur
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together.
Horizon
Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard.
Iceman: Mummy From the Stone Age
The discovery of a 5,000-year-old male mummy in the Austrian Alps has enabled scientists to re-create a vanished world.
Horizon
The earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs.
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.
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