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The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life
Complete guide to prehistoric life.jpg
Author
Tim Haines
 Paul Chambers
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Reference work
Publisher
Firefly Books

Publication date
 2006
Pages
216 pages
ISBN
1-55407-125-9
OCLC
60834094
The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life is an encyclopedia featuring 111 of the prehistoric animals from the Walking with... series, as well as an additional one (Homo floresiensis). It was published in 2006 by Firefly Books, and written by Tim Haines with Paul Chambers. It accompanies all programs in the Walking with... series except Walking with Cavemen, Prehistoric Park and Primeval.


Contents  [hide]
1 Contents 1.1 Cambrian (542 − 488 Million Years Ago)
1.2 Ordovician (488 − 443 Million Years Ago)
1.3 Silurian (443 − 416 Million Years Ago)
1.4 Devonian (416 − 359 Million Years Ago)
1.5 Carboniferous (359 − 299 Million Years Ago)
1.6 Permian (299 − 251 Million Years Ago)
1.7 Triassic (251 − 199 Million Years Ago)
1.8 Jurassic (199 − 145 Million Years Ago)
1.9 Cretaceous (145 − 65 Million Years Ago)
1.10 Paleocene (65 − 55 Million Years Ago)
1.11 Eocene (55 − 33 Million Years Ago)
1.12 Oligocene (33 − 23 Million Years Ago)
1.13 Miocene (24 − 5 Million Years Ago)
1.14 Pliocene (5 − 1.8 Million Years Ago)
1.15 Pleistocene (1.8 − 0.01 Million Years Ago)
1.16 Mentioned creatures
2 Scientific errors
3 Footnotes

Contents[edit]
The book is divided into four sections other than the Index and Glossary, the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic, the Cenozoic, and the Timeline or the Tree of Life. The previous three sections contain brief summaries of the time periods featured, and detailed entries for the featured animals. The lists of creatures are in the order they are shown in the book.
Cambrian (542 − 488 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Anomalocaris
Trilobites
Haikouichthys
Ordovician (488 − 443 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Cameroceras
Megalograptus
Silurian (443 − 416 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Cephalaspis
Brontoscorpio
Pterygotus
Devonian (416 − 359 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Dunkleosteus
Stethacanthus
Hynerpeton
Hyneria
Carboniferous (359 − 299 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Meganeura
Petrolacosaurus
Arthropleura
Proterogyrinus
Permian (299 − 251 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Dimetrodon
Seymouria
Edaphosaurus
Gorgonops
Scutosaurus
Diictodon
Triassic (251 − 199 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Proterosuchus
Lystrosaurus
Euparkeria
Nothosaurus
Cymbospondylus
Tanystropheus
Plateosaurus
Placerias
Thrinaxodon
Coelophysis
Peteinosaurus
Postosuchus
Jurassic (199 − 145 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Ammonites
Leedsichthys
Metriorhynchus
Rhamphorhynchus
Ophthalmosaurus
Liopleurodon
Cryptoclidus
Hybodus
Eustreptospondylus
Othnielia
Diplodocus
Brachiosaurus
Anurognathus
Stegosaurus
Allosaurus
Ornitholestes
Cretaceous (145 − 65 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Iguanodon
Tapejara
Polacanthus
Iberomesornis
Utahraptor
Tropeognathus
Koolasuchus
Leaellynasaura
Sarcosuchus
Giganotosaurus
Argentinosaurus
Pteranodon
Therizinosaurus
Tarbosaurus
Mononykus
Velociraptor
Protoceratops
Archelon
Elasmosaurus
Tylosaurus
Xiphactinus
Hesperornis
Tyrannosaurus
Torosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Edmontosaurus(identified as its synonym Anatotitan)
Didelphodon
Paleocene (65 − 55 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Gastornis
Eocene (55 − 33 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Leptictidium
Godinotia
Propalaeotherium
Ambulocetus
Andrewsarchus
Embolotherium
Moeritherium
Arsinoitherium
Basilosaurus
Dorudon
Apidium
Oligocene (33 − 23 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Hyaenodon
Entelodon
Paraceratherium
Cynodictis
Miocene (24 − 5 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Chalicotherium
Deinotherium
Pliocene (5 − 1.8 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Ancylotherium
Dinofelis
Australopithecus afarensis
Carcharodon megalodon
Odobenocetops
Smilodon
Phorusrhacos
Megatherium
Macrauchenia
Doedicurus
Pleistocene (1.8 − 0.01 Million Years Ago)[edit]
Megaloceros
Panthera leo
Homo neanderthalensis
Mammuthus
Coelodonta
Homo sapiens
Homo floresiensis
Mentioned creatures[edit]
Megarachne
Eusthenopteron
Sordes
Archaeopteryx
Megalosaurus
Seismosaurus
Compsognathus
Triceratops
Deinonychus
Sinosauropteryx
Protoarchaeopteryx
Microraptor
Pachycephalosaurus
Sinornis
Confuciusornis
Deinosuchus
Andesaurus
Quetzalcoatlus
Thescelosaurus
Ornithocheirus
Scientific errors[edit]
On page 209, on the family tree, Pteranodon is incorrectly placed in the crocodiles branch.
Also in the family tree, Nothosaurus is placed on a separate branch from the one labeled nothosaurs.
In the family tree, it is said that the mesonychians were the ancestors of the whales. However, this theory has been discarded in favor of one where cetaceans and artiodactyls share a common ancestor.
The family tree also claims that the Carnivora descended from the creodonts. However, this is a grossly outdated theory. Rather, the carnivores more likely descended from the tree-dwelling miacids.
The family tree shows that the apes first appeared in the Oligocene, while the oldest known ape, Proconsul(primate), dates back to the later Miocene.
Cameroceras is repeatedly misspelled as "Cameraceras". This is probably just an accident.
On page 46, it is said that turtles and tortoises descended from Scutosaurus. However, some paleontologists believe that chelonians are more closely related to the group that includes archosaurs than to pareiasaurs.
Coelophysis is repeatedly misclassified as a coelurosaur, while it was actually a basal coelophysid.
On page 64, it is said that nothosaurs laid eggs. However, it is now generally agreed that they gave live birth like their descendants, the "Sauropterygians"
On page 65, Cymbospondylus is dubbed the largest ichthyosaur of all time. In fact, the creature was not even half the size of Shastasaurus,[1] which is the largest known marine reptile. Interestingly, the book Chased by Sea Monsters states that the largest ichthyosaur is either Shonisaurus or an undescribed genus.
On page 90, Eustreptospondylus and Megalosaurus are said to be carnosaurs, while they are closer relatives of the spinosaurs.
On page 96, Stegosaurus is said to have a brain the size of a walnut, while in reality, it was twice the size of a walnut.
On page 112, Leaellynasaura is said to be an ornithopod. However, it may have been a more basal ornithischian that does not fit in any of the known families.
On page 127, it is said that there is no evidence for Velociraptor having feathers. However, quill knobs have been found in association with the creature's skeleton, suggesting that it was feathered. However, this discovery was made after the book was published.
On page 128, Protoceratops is incorrectly identified as an ornithopod, while it's actually a ceratopsian.[2][3]
On page 137, it is said that Tyrannosaurus means "terrible lizard". However, this is what the term dinosaur means. Tyrannosaurus means "tyrant lizard".
On page 137, it is said that Tyrannosaurus lived from 75 to 66 million years ago. However, the oldest fossils that can be confidently assigned to this genus date back only 67 million years ago.
On page 138, it is said that Torosaurus means "bull lizard". However, this is a common misconception. It actually means "perforated lizard
".
On page 188, Smilodon is said to have died out 100,000 years ago. However, it is known to have survived until 10,000 years ago.[4][5]
On page 190, the closest living relative to Phorusrhacos is said to be the secretary bird. That would actually be the seriema bird.[6]
On page 196, Megaloceros is said to reach antlerspans up to 9.8 feet (3 meters) while, in fact, antler spans of 12 feet ( 3.6 meters) are not uncommon.
On page 197, the cave lion is depicted with a much shorter tail than it had in real life.
On page 201, it is said that a population of pygmy mammoths survived on an island off the east coast of Russia until about 6,000 years ago. In fact, this time estimate is only accurate about the population on the Alaskan St. Paul Island than the real last sanctuary, the Wrangel Island, where the most recent remains are as young as 3,700 years old.
The size comparison images of some animals are erroneous, such as Meganeura, Ornitholestes (both too big), Megatherium and Megaloceros (both too small). Also, the silhouette used for Tarbosaurus (actually a stock image that has been used in older books) depicts the animal standing in a kangaroo-like manner, instead with its spine parallel to the ground. Also, an old stock image of Eryops was used for the size comparison model for Proterogyrinus, although Eryops had a more rounded skull than Proterogyrinus. Lastly, the silhouette of the Paraceratherium is actually that of a calf, as you can tell by its proportions.
On the Velociraptor page, it is mentioned that Jurassic Park came out in 1992, when it actually came out a year later.
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ ' Shastasaurus on prehistoric-wildlife.com
2.Jump up ^ ' Protoceratops on prehistoric-wildlife.com
3.Jump up ^ ' Protoceratops on paleodb
4.Jump up ^ ' Smilodon on prehistoric-wildlife.com
5.Jump up ^ ' Smilodon on dinosaurs.about.com
6.Jump up ^ ' Phorusrhacos on prehistoric-wildlife.com


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Prehistoric Planet
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Prehistoric Planet is a re-version of the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts series, done by Discovery Channel and NBC for the Discovery Kids network. Though the producers kept nearly all of the original animation, David Bock and Peter Sherman wrote new text for a younger target audience, narrated by Ben Stiller and Christian Slater, and interspersed the scenes with occasional quizzes to act as bumpers around the commercial breaks. New music was incorporated as well. Most marketing and advertising for the series focused on the dinosaur episodes. In addition, the final episode, the Prehistoric Planet Top 10 focused solely on the creatures from Walking With Dinosaurs. Some small content edits were done to allow original programs to fit in the 23 minutes of non-commercial time that a normal half-hour program has on network TV. At present, only Season 1 has been released on home video and DVD.


Contents  [hide]
1 Season One (2001-2002) 1.1 Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
1.2 Jurassic Giants
1.3 Jurassic Beach
1.4 Sky King
1.5 Dinosaurs Of The Ice Forest
1.6 Death Of The Dinosaurs
2 Season Two (2002-2003) 2.1 Bring On The Beasts
2.2 Killer Whale's Tale
2.3 Mega-Mammal
2.4 First Came The Apes
2.5 Sabertooth
2.6 Ice Age Survivor
2.7 Prehistoric Planet Top 10


Season One (2001-2002)[edit]
Dawn Of The Dinosaurs[edit]
220,000,000 BC, Late Triassic (Arizona) − This episode follows the evolution of the first dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures in the late Triassic period.
Coelophysis
Cynodont
Placerias
Postosuchus
Peteinosaurus
Plateosaurus
Jurassic Giants[edit]
152,000,000 BC, Late Jurassic (Colorado) − This episode follows the story of a young female Diplodocus and her brothers and sisters in the late Jurassic period.
Diplodocus
Dryosaurus
Allosaurus
Ornitholestes
Stegosaurus
Anurognathus
Jurassic Beach[edit]
149,000,000 BC, Late Jurassic (Oxfordshire) − This episode follows the life of several baby Ophthalmosaurus and a bull Liopleurodon in the late Jurassic period.
Ophthalmosaurus
Liopleurodon
Eustreptospondylus
Cryptoclidus
Rhamphorhynchus
Prehistoric Shark
Ammonite
Sky King[edit]
127,000,000 BC, Early Cretaceous (Brazil) − This episode follows a male Ornithocheirus on his long journey to the mating grounds in the early Cretaceous period.
Ornithocheirus
Iguanodon
Utahraptor
Dakotadon
Tapejara
Polacanthus
Iberomesornis
Dinosaurs Of The Ice Forest[edit]
106,000,000 BC, Early Cretaceous (Antarctica) − This episode follows the hardships of an Antarctican Leaellynasaura clan in the early Cretaceous period.
Leaellynasaura
Muttaburrasaurus
Polar Allosaurus
Koolasuchus
Coatimundi
Death Of The Dinosaurs[edit]
65,500,000 BC, Late Cretaceous (Montana) − This episode follows the final years of the dinosaurs and a mother Tyrannosaurus Rex and her babies in the late Cretaceous period.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Torosaurus
Triceratops
Ankylosaurus
Thescelosaurus
Anatotitan
Didelphodon
Dromaeosaurus
Season Two (2002-2003)[edit]
Bring On The Beasts[edit]
49,000,000 BC, Early Eocene (Germany) − This episode follows the life of a mother Leptictidium and her babies in the dense forests of Germany in the early Eocene epoch.
Leptictidium
Gastornis
Ambulocetus
Propalaeotherium
Godinotia
Titanomyrma
Killer Whale's Tale[edit]
36,000,000 BC, Late Eocene (Pakistan) − This episode follows the sea journey of a pregnant female Basilosaurus search for food in the late Eocene epoch.
Basilosaurus
Andrewsarchus
Embolotherium
Dorudon
Moeritherium
Apidium
Mega-Mammal[edit]
25,000,000 BC, Late Oligocene (Mongolia) − This episode follows the life of a young Paraceratherium and his mother from his birth in the late Oligocene epoch.
Indricothere
Chalicotherium
Hyaenodon
Entelodon
Bear dog
First Came The Apes[edit]
3,200,000 BC, Late Pliocene (Ethiopia) − This episode follows the hardships of an Australopithecus group and a young called Blue in the late Pliocene epoch.
Australopithecus
Dinofelis
Ancylotherium
Deinotherium
Sabertooth[edit]
1,000,000 BC, Early Pleistocene (Paraguay) − This episode follows a male Smilodon called Halftooth after he lost his territory in the early Pleistocene epoch.
Smilodon
Macrauchenia
Megatherium
Phorusrhacos
Doedicurus
Ice Age Survivor[edit]
30,000 BC, Late Pleistocene (North Sea, Belgium, and Swiss Alps) − This episode follows a herd of woolly mammoth journey to the Alps in the last Ice Age of the late Pleistocene epoch.
Woolly Mammoth
Irish Elk
Woolly Rhinoceros
Neanderthal
Cave Lion
Cro-Magnon
Prehistoric Planet Top 10[edit]
This episode details a list of animals from the first season that the developers thought were the most impressive creatures on Earth.
1. Liopleurodon (Due to eating dinosaurs)
2. Tyrannosaurus Rex (Due to being a one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs and also earning the title king of the dinosaurs)
3. Stegosaurus (Due to discouraging Allosaurus)
4. Allosaurus (Due to being one of the only predators to take down Diplodocus)
5. Diplodocus (Due to being one of the longest sauropods of its time)
6. Torosaurus (Due to its large skull)
7. Ornithocheirus (Due to being one of the biggest pterosaurs ever)
8. Utahraptor (Due to being a predator that took down an Iguanodon)
9. Iguanodon (Due to being able to chew, and having a thumb spike)
10. Coelophysis (Due to being a fierce predator)


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The Lost World (2001) ·
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 March of the Dinosaurs (2011) ·
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Spin-offs
Prehistoric Planet (2002) ·
 The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life (2006)
 

Lists
List of Walking with... creatures ·
 List of Prehistoric Park episodes, locations ·
 List of Primeval creatures, episodes, books, characters
 

Films
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
 

Games
Dinosaur World (2002) ·
 Primeval Evolved (2009) ·
 Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
 

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The Last Dragon (2004) ·
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 Planet Dinosaur (2011)
 

 


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Primeval: New World
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Primeval: New World
Alt= Series title against a black background
Genre
Science fiction
Drama
Created by
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Developed by
Gillian Horvath
Starring
Niall Matter
Sara Canning
Danny Rahim
Crystal Lowe
 Miranda Frigon
 Geoff Gustafson
Composer(s)
Andrew Lockington
Country of origin
Canada
 United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
13 (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Katie Newman
Tim Haines
 Michael Chechick
 Gabriela Schonbach
Martin Wood
 Gillian Horvath
Running time
42 minutes
Production company(s)
Impossible Pictures
Omni Film Productions
Distributor
Entertainment One
Broadcast

Original channel
Space
Original run
29 October 2012 – 19 February 2013
Chronology

Preceded by
Primeval
External links
Production website
Primeval: New World is a Canadian-British science fiction television program, set in Vancouver, British Columbia, created by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. A co-production between Impossible Pictures and Omni Film Productions for Space, the show is a spin-off of the British series Primeval. It was broadcast on Space in Canada, and on Watch in the United Kingdom. As with Primeval, the premise of Primeval: New World involves a team who have to deal with animals from the past and future that travel through time to the present day through anomalies.[1] On 21 February 2013, it was announced that the series had been cancelled after a single season.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production 2.1 Development
2.2 Filming and effects
2.3 Cancellation
3 Cast
4 Promotion
5 Broadcast
6 Reception
7 Episodes
8 DVD/Blu-ray releases
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
In the Primeval series, animals and people from the past and future travel through time to the present day via anomalies, fictional phenomena which act as portals through time. In Primeval: New World, set in Vancouver, British Columbia, anomalies begin opening in Canada.[1][3][4] Evan Cross, a software inventor who encountered an anomaly six years ago, creates the Special Projects Group to investigate the anomalies.[5]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Rumours of a Primeval spin-off date originated in June 2009 when, in an interview with Digital Spy, co-creator Tim Haines said "We're working on [a spin-off] with people in Canada".[6] On 15 September 2011, Bell Media announced that Primeval: New World had been commissioned for Space as a co-production between Omni Film Productions and Impossible Pictures, stating "The series... will build on the UK Primeval mythology, taking place in the same universe that we've come to know and love. The story will centre on a new Canadian team of animal experts taking on whatever past or future creatures come through the anomalies that are now appearing around the world."[3][7] Omni, Space, and Impossible Pictures collaborated for two-and-a-half years before announcing the series.[8]
Primeval: New World was created by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Haines is signed on as an executive producer, as are Sanctuary contributors Martin Wood and Gillian Horvath.[9][10] 13 episodes were commissioned for the first series.[1][3] Katie Newman of Impossible Pictures stated the tone will be "older, darker and scarier" than the original.[11] Haines envisaged some crossover with Primeval but stated that the storyline would be mostly self-contained, describing it as a spin-off in the vein of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[4] Corrie Coe, the senior vice-president of independent production at Bell, called it "a parallel yet independent series".[1] In their press release, Bell Media said the "story and character development will move between the two series, uniting different plotlines."[1]
Filming and effects[edit]
Filming was scheduled to begin in Vancouver in late 2011,[8] but did not get underway until 7 March 2012.[12] The majority of filming took place in urban areas outside of the city; locations included Stanley Park, Granville Island, B.C. Place Stadium, and the Britannia Beach mines.[13][14] Impossible Pictures began work on the scripts in October 2011.[4] Final drafts were written by Horvath, Wood, Peter Hume, Jon Cooksey, Sarah Dodd, Katherine Collins, and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, with Wood, Amanda Tapping, Andy Mikita, and Mike Rohl signed on to direct.[10] Filming for the first series concluded on 18 July 2012.[12][15] The Bridge Studios served as the show's production centre.[14]
While the computer-generated images for Primeval were created by Framestore and The Mill, the effects for Primeval: New World were done by the Vancouver-based company Atmosphere Visual Effects. Gabriela Schonbach of Omni said "Vancouver is the creative hub of visual effects for television, and we are the beneficiaries of a huge pool of talent in every area of TV production."[12] Models for sixteen different species, including Pteranodon, Titanoboa, Daemonosaurus, Titanis, and Pachycephalosaurus, were created for the series.[5][16] To simulate the creatures during filming, the effects team used a mixture of people and props to convey their locations to the actors; for the Pteranodon sequence in Stanley Park in the first episode, a man holding a stick with a tennis ball attached was used to give them an indication of the creature's size.[14] Each episode will contain over 70 computer-generated images.[16] Visual effects supervisor Mark Savela noted the success of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park franchise had caused challenges in creating "a fresh spin on dinosaurs".[13] The introductory sequence and titles were created by Vancouver-based The Sequence Group. To develop it The Sequence Group took inspiration from the concept of the anomalies, intermixing them with shots of the cast, and creatures from the first episode.[17]
Cancellation[edit]
On 21 February 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Primeval: New World had been cancelled after a single season. Low ratings for the series caused Space and Bell Media to decide against renewing the show for a second season.[2]
Cast[edit]



 Cast L-R: Geoff Gustafson, Miranda Frigon, Sara Canning, Niall Matter, Danny Rahim, Crystal LoweNiall Matter as Evan Cross: an inventor specializing in software.[12] Cross has been searching for anomalies after encountering an Albertosaurus six years prior to the start of the series.[18] A lab in his company, Cross Photonics, is used as the team's base.[5] Matter cited the action sequences as his reason for joining the show, and he performed many of the character's stunts himself.[14]
Sara Canning as Dylan Weir: a conservation officer and expert in predatory behaviour.[5][12] Canning researched aspects of the role by contacting her aunt, a park ranger in New Brunswick, who was able to provide her with details on equipment and training for the character.[14]
Danny Rahim as Mac Rendell: an expert in firearms.[5][12]
Crystal Lowe as Toby Nance: the builder of the devices that track anomalies. In the episode "Babes in the Woods" It is revealed she is bisexual[5][16]
Miranda Frigon as Angelika Finch: the CFO of Cross Photonics.[5][12]
Geoff Gustafson as Lieutenant Ken Leeds: a Royal Canadian Air Force officer and the head of the government's Project Magnet.[5][12]
In October 2011, Haines indicated that characters from Primeval could appear in some capacity, stating "We've only got one at the moment... We haven't worked that out".[4] Space and Impossible Pictures jointly revealed the cast of the series in March 2012. Andrew-Lee Potts, who played Connor Temple in Primeval, reprises his role in the first and final episode.[16] Potts indicated his character would be used to tie the two series together, saying Connor appears to "rectify something that may have gone wrong, and to try prevent it getting worse."[19] In addition to the main cast, numerous former Stargate franchise actors, including Lexa Doig, Louis Ferreira, and Dan Payne, were cast in various guest roles. Additionally Amanda Tapping directed three episodes. Niall Matter's former Eureka co-star Colin Fergusonguest-starred in one episode as a quirky scientist (basically switching the roles they previously played).[20]
Promotion[edit]
A 2-minute trailer for the series was released online in September 2012.[21] Two Mobile apps, developed by the Calgary, Alberta company Robots and Pencils, were created for the iPhone and iPad. Primeval: dFX inserts creatures from the series into the user's video clips; Primeval: New World functions as a mobile game, with the user playing as a character from the series in the goal of keeping Vancouver safe from creature attacks.[22]
Broadcast[edit]
The Canadian television channel Space is lead broadcaster for Primeval: New World, with episodes shown online following the cable premiere.[1][16] Ztélé will broadcast the series to French Canada.[23] In the United Kingdom, the series will be broadcast on Watch from 8 January 2013.[24] Syfy acquired basic cable rights for a June 2013 premiere in the United States, with Hulu taking video on demand rights for the territory.[25] NRJ 12 will broadcast the series in France.[25] The international distribution rights are held by Entertainment One.[10]
Reception[edit]
Den of Geek columnist Philip Lickley enjoyed the first episode, stating that while it was "a little shallower" than Primeval, the ending "[sets up] what could be the most exciting element of the series." He noted several references to the original series, including the handheld anomaly detector and a cryogenically frozen Anomaly Research Centre member, as particular highlights.[26] Alex Strachan of the Postmedia News agency had a favourable impression, praising the visual effects and describing the episode as "watchable and entertaining, the modern-day equivalent of '60s sci-fi TV classics like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel."[27]
Episodes[edit]

No.
Title
Directed by
Written by
Canadian air date
UK air date
UK viewers[28]


1
"The New World" Martin Wood Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens 29 October 2012[29] 8 January 2013[24] 409,000
Anomalies appear in Stanley Park, and several people are killed when a Pteranodon and two Utahraptors appear in the present. Connor Temple travels to Vancouver and takes back an ARC device Evan Cross obtained six years ago when an Albertosaurus killed his wife, and his own life was saved by an anonymous ARC soldier. He warns Evan about the danger of working with the anomalies and changing history, and advises him to leave the anomalies alone. However further attacks and a missing child prompts Evan and his Special Projects Group to search for the creatures. Ange Finch contacts Lieutenant Ken Leeds, head of the government's secret and very small "Project Magnet", requesting his help.
2
"Sisiutl" Andy Mikita Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens 5 November 2012[29] 15 January 2013[30] 401,000
Lieutenant Leeds approaches Evan to offer his cooperation on the anomalies, but is rebuffed. Toby creates an anomaly detection system by hacking the local cell phone network, and immediately detects an anomaly near an oil tanker facility, where two researchers have been killed. Facing a psychological assessment, Dylan is approached by a cryptozoologist who shows her video of what he thinks is the inspiration for Sisiutl; a sea serpent from First Nations mythology. They encounter Evan and Mac at the anomaly, and discover that the creature is a Titanoboa. With the help of Detective Harlow, the Titanoboa is returned to its own time. Having missed her assessment, Dylan is offered a place on Evan's team.
3
"Fear of Flying" Mike Rohl Jon Cooksey 12 November 2012[29] 22 January 2013[31] 315,000
An anomaly opens at an airfield, and a descending cargo plane passes through it into the past. Evan and Dylan venture into the anomaly in an attempt to save the occupants, while Mac stands guard outside in case any creatures pass through it. Though the pilots survived the crash the electronics did not, and while attempting to make repairs the pilot is killed by a swarm of beetles, whose hive the plane landed in. As Evan, Dylan, and the co-pilot attempt to finish the repairs from inside the plane, Mac and Sam, his girlfriend, battle with the hive's queen, who has flown through the anomaly into the present.
4
"Angry Birds" Andy Mikita Gillian Horvath 19 November 2012[29] 29 January 2013 322,000
An anomaly opens in a deserted rail yard that is being used for a marijuana grow op. After giving some supplies to their courier, the cultivators discover a young bird among the plants; on the road, the courier is chased down and eaten by an adult. Toby convinces Evan to let her go with them to the anomaly so she can take scientific readings for her research. Evan and Dylan are first to the rail yard, and are taken captive by the cultivators. Dylan sees the bird and determines it to be a juvenile Titanis, or terror bird. As Mac and Toby's car hits one adult, another attacks Evan. The bird is distracted by Leeds and killed by Mac. The second adult kills one cultivator and then attacks the group. As Toby and Leeds track down the anomaly, Evan burns marijuana to fill a carriage with narcotic smoke and Dylan lures the adult inside, where it is knocked out by the fumes. At Cross Photonics, Evan agrees to work with Leeds on the anomalies. Though the adult Titanis were returned through the anomaly, Leeds secretly takes the juvenile.
5
"Undone" Mike Rohl Sarah Dodd 26 November 2012[29] 5 February 2013 266,000
A student is chased by a creature at a university, barely managing to escape from the attack. At Cross Photonics, Toby discovers that an anomaly opened and closed on the campus half an hour previously. Evan, Dylan, Mac, and Toby search the campus and discover a female Lycaenops in the library. When the creature is tranqualized, Evan, Dylan, and Sam transport it to Cross Photonics while Mac and Toby stay on campus. The anomaly reopens and a male Lycaenops ventures through before it closes again. When the female revives and attacks Sam, Mac and Toby return to Cross Photonics to find that she has been killed. Mac decides to kill the Lycaenops, against Evan's pleas. As they search for the creature they realize that the male has tracked the female's scent and entered the building. As Mac chases the male, Toby realizes that she is being stalked by the female. Dylan shoots the creature in mid-leap, and Mac kills the male when it arrives at the female's body.
6
"Clean Up on Aisle Three" Amanda Tapping Peter Hume 3 December 2012[29] 12 February 2013 205,000
A security guard on the night watch at a Canadian Tire is killed when a pack of Daemonosaurus travels through an anomaly. Evan, Dylan, and Mac break into the store and search for the creatures. In their attempts to trap them it becomes apparent that the Daemonosaurus are more intelligent than expected, and their radios, guns, and flashlights are stolen by them. Dylan deduces that they are attracted to shiny objects and following the orders of the alpha male. Armed with hockey sticks they search for the pack's makeshift nest. Angelika decides to accept a job offer from another company. Lieutenant Leeds informs her that the government's resources will soon be available to the Special Projects Group. In a call with his superior, he is warned not to mess up.
7
"Babes in the Woods" Andy Mikita Katherine Collins 10 December 2012[29] 19 February 2013 *no data
An Anomaly opens in the woods near a cabin where Toby used to model, and a photographer is killed by a dinosaur. When they learn of the Anomaly, the team goes to investigate, along with Ange, who has decided to stay because of the change in her relationship with Evan. Mac, Toby and her ex-girlfriend are chased by the dinosaur, an Ornitholestes, and soon Evan, Dylan and Ange manage to taser it. While searching for the Anomaly to put the creature back through, both groups are stalked by a second Ornitholestes, which they eventually force back through.
8
"Truth" Amanda Tapping Gillian Horvath 17 December 2012[29] 26 February 2013 159,000
A Pachycephalosaurus roams the harbourfront. Dylan and Mac quickly tranquilize the creature, but before it passes out sneezes on Evan. Returning to Cross Photonics, they leave the job of returning the Pachycephalosaurus through the anomaly to Leeds. Evan begins to hallucinate and believes that the Albertosaurus that killed his wife has returned. Triggering the evacuation code he hunts for the creature, ignoring Dylan and Toby's attempts to make him see sense. Mac, attempting to keep an eye on Evan, finds the frozen ARC soldier in storage, and that it is in fact an alternate version of him who saved Evan six years earlier. Ange manages to get close enough to Evan while he hallucinates that she is Brooke to transquillise him.
9
"Breakthrough" Andy Mikita Judy and Garfield Reeves-Stevens 22 January 2013 5 March 2013 155,000
While their anomaly detector is still offline from the damage Evan caused, the team discovers footage of a Triceratops on the internet, which leads Evan and Dylan to the home of Evan’s old rival, Howard Kanan. Meanwhile, preferring to avoid Evan in light of his recent discovery, Mac helps Toby to discredit the footage of the Triceratops since Leed's new assistant at Project Magnet is far from helpful. Dylan works with Leeds and his men to keep the Triceratops distracted while Evan and Kanan work to fix the handheld detector, in the process figuring out a way to measure how long an Anomaly will last. However when they send the Triceratops back through the Anomaly, Kanan follows with the detector before it closes.
10
"The Great Escape" Amanda Tapping Dennis Heaton 29 January 2013[32] 12 March 2013 163,000
The Titanis previously taken by Leeds escapes into the city. Dylan receives a phone call from Detective Harlow informing her of a potential creature attack. Arriving at the site, Evan and Dylan follow the tracks and discover the Titanis scavenging in a dumpster. The bird is scared off by the arrival of Major Douglas, who tells them not to interfere. Evan and Dylan head to Project Magnet and confront Leeds, who explains that he took the bird as proof for his superiors. Unaware of the escape, or the invasive research performed on the Titanis, Leeds offers them his assistance. Evan downloads the GPS data for the bird from Leeds' computer terminal and locates it at Thunderbird Arena. As the military evacuates the building, Evan and Dylan sneak inside and search for the Titanis, setting up a GPS decoy on Dylan's phone. As the search progresses, two servicemen are killed and the Titanis badly wounded. Unable to save its life, Dylan resolves to euthanize it, but she is halted by Major Douglas. Douglas is tranquilized by Leeds and Dylan shoots the Titanis. Leeds is arrested by the military but leaves his Project Magnet passkey in his car for Evan.
11
"The Inquisition" Martin Wood Jon Cooksey 5 February 2013 19 March 2013 179,000
While Lieutenant Leeds is interrogated by his superior, Colonel Hall, Evan and his team track down the location of the lab to which Leeds has been taking captured dinosaurs; realizing that the military will be closing in on them, Evan has Toby relocate the anomaly detector. Evan is arrested and taken to the facility where Leeds is being held, while Mac and Dylan break in using the keycard left to them by Leeds. Here, Evan discovers the Colonel's motive; while Evan wishes to preserve the timeline, the Colonel intends to use the anomalies to prevent disasters in the present and future, such as global warming, by "seeding" points in the past with technology. Although Evan is initially uncooperative, Mac and Dylan are discovered on the facility and, seeing no way out, Evan agrees to work for the military, and gives them the rights to any new technology he will develop. With the group released and Leeds returned to his incarceration, Mac finally comes to terms with the alteration to his timeline, and the group bury the alternate Mac that Evan had stored in the freezer.
12
"The Sound of Thunder (1)" Martin Wood Gillian Horvath, Katherine Collins, and Peter Hume 12 February 2013 26 March 2013 180,000
13
"The Sound of Thunder (2)" Martin Wood Gillian Horvath and Katherine Collins 19 February 2013 2 April 2013 201,000
Connor Temple enters an anomaly in London to rescue a colleague chased by an Albertosaurus, and arrives in the Spaghetti Junction. Spotting Dylan's visual aid, Connor enters the anomaly to the time period in which Evan is trapped, and meets Dylan, who has returned from delivering the scorpion tail that is used to cure Toby. Evan realizes the Albertosaurus is the one that killed his wife, and the trio enter Cross Photonics in the past to find the ARC team member. When they return, Colonel Hall has his men tranquilize the dinosaur, seemingly in violation of the original timeline, and Evan knows he has until the anomaly closes to repair it. Connor returns to his time, and the Albertosaurus escapes, rampages, and kills Hall. As Evan, Dylan, and Mac push the Albertosaurus back to Cross Photonics in the past, they realize that with the original Mac erased from the timeline, there is no-one to rescue Evan in the past; Mac enters the anomaly, albeit with a different uniform, and rescues Evan once more in the past. When the Albertosaurus re-emerges from Cross Photonics into the Junction, Evan shoots the dinosaur dead, its rampage in the past complete, but the anomalies begin to disappear one-by-one. As Dylan and Evan realize something must have changed, they dash towards the anomaly to their present.
DVD/Blu-ray releases[edit]
The complete series was released on a 3-disc DVD set in the UK (region 2) on April 1, 2013.[33] It was later released in North America (region 1) on October 22, 2013 on both DVD and Blu-ray.[34]
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External links[edit]
Primeval: New World, Impossible Pictures
Primeval: New World's channel on YouTube
Primeval: New World at the Internet Movie Database


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March of the Dinosaurs
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March of the Dinosaurs

Directed by
Matthew Thompson
Produced by
Mike Davis
Assistant Producer
 Alexandra Revill
Executive Producers
Jasper James
 Pauline Duffy
 Elliot Halpern
Written by
Matthew Thompson
 Jasper James
Narrated by
Stephen Fry
Music by
Mark Russell
Edited by
Matt Platts-Mills
Release date(s)
27 May 2011

Running time
85 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
 Canada
Language
English
March of the Dinosaurs is a CGI film which has appeared on television and was released on DVD on 27 May 2011. It was made by Impossible Pictures, the same company that created the Walking with... series and Prehistoric Park. Set 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous in North America, the film follows the journey of a young Edmontosaurus named Scar and his herd as they migrate south for the winter. This film depicts recent findings about Dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurs with feathers and hunting packs, dinosaurs in the snow and migrating.
It shows a 1000-mile autumn migration of Edmontosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus from their summer grazing in northwest Canada (then well inside the Arctic Circle, so that the winter night and summer day were each 4 months long) to their winter grazing in the south-west USA, and the young Troodon which had to stay and endure the Arctic winter. The hazards met are land and water predators, an Arctic blizzard, thin ice, crossing a foodless volcanic wasteland, a lahar, and a wide river inhabited by predators. All the scenery and vegetation are CGI.
The DVD says that this is inspired by recent dinosaur fossil discoveries in the Canadian Arctic, and that the Arctic CGI trees are modelled on Sequioa.
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The film begins on a summer's day in Northern Canada when you travel back in time 70 million years ago and you find a herd of Edmontosaurus and a spiky Edmontonia feeding on the lush vegetation that grows all around them. Scar, a young male Edmontosaurus, enjoys his life in the Arctic forests with his extended family, he comes across a young immature male Troodon named Patch, who has been feasting on baby Edmontosaurus all summer, but now they're too big for him and so he's having a tough time catching prey. He chases after an Alphadon, but another clawed foot grabs the fleeing mammal. It was a female Troodon, and Patch is becoming impatient. The plentiful food for Scar is ending as well, as the dark, cold Arctic winter is approaching. Scar has lost sign of the herd and a dark shape, which turns out to be Gorgon, the Gorgosaurus, sliced his face as he narrowly dodges the killer blow. Soon, a herd of Pachyrhinosaurus arrives, led by Patchi. Scar finds the Edmontonia feasting on a fallen tree branch. The sun sets and Patchi tells the herd to move on somewhere. The winter's approaching and the female Edmontosaurus gets killed by Gorgon as she wanders off. The next day, the Edmontosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus herd moves south for the winter, except the Edmontonia. She's way too heavy and her armoured body has been storing fat inside. Meanwhile, Patch and the Troodons are feasting on a dead Edmontosaurus when Gorgon appears. He scares the Troodons away, and Patch is frustrated. Far away, the dinosaur herd is moving on, until Scar sees a dark shadow, which turns out to be a Quetzalcoatlus, the biggest pterosaur ever. The blizzard arrives and Scar collapses, but an older one arrives and helps it survive. They went on walking and didn't realize they were heading into a trap. The ground breaks apart, meaning that they walked onto a frozen lake. A hadrosaur got dragged underwater by a sea monster known as Prognathodon. Scar has never swum before, but he got pushed in and started to swim for the shore. In the Arctic, Patch picks up a bone and heads back to the nest. Nearby, Gorgon finds the Edmontonia outside, but the leg cuts are badly infected and he goes back into the cave to think up another way of making a big kill. A thousand miles away, the Edmontosaurus herd moves on and volcanoes are starting to form. They didn't see a pack of Albertosaurus sleeping and they move on. The feathered carnivores woke up and started to hunt the herd. Scar runs for his life while the predator is hot on his heels. An avalanche of water, rock and mud slides down the bank. Scar climbs up the cliff, but loses his courage, and the Albertosaurus is waiting to make the kill. Just as Scar sees the avalanche, he rushes up the cliff while the Albertosaurus is swept to his doom. Back in the Arctic, Patch is trying to impress the female by dancing and the Edmontonia has found the last leaf. Suddenly, the log breaks apart and the Edmontonia slides down the snow on her back and crashes into a snowdrift. She is utterly helpless. Far away from the Troodons, Scar tries to call for his father, but the only calls are the ones that didn't make it. The Albertosaurus gets up and starting hunting the herd again. Scar and the old Edmontosaurus walks on, but the only thing they found is a female Pachyrhinosaurus named Juniper. They walked on and left her behind. Scar sees the Albertosaurus first. The father fights the predator until they both tumble over the cliff, locked in a deadly embrace. In the frozen north, Patch catches the Alphadon and saw the Edmontonia. He and the others attacked the Ankylosaur, but Gorgon arrives and pulls the herbivore away from the smaller predators. Struggling, the Edmontonia gets back up and injures Gorgon with her shoulder spikes. The Gorgosaurus heads back to the cave. As the sun rose the next morning, Scar is becoming weaker and the Quetzalcoatlus senses it. The young dinosaur hears a rustling noise, which turns to be a Pachyrhinosaurus instead of a Quetzalcoatlus. The pterosaur gives up and the ceratopsian herd arrive to cross the river. As they move on, the blood-thirsty Prognathodon arrives and pulls many of them underwater. Scar dives in while the mosasaurs drown more Pachyrhinosauruses. Scar has completed the toughest test and reunites with the Edmontosaurus herd. The sun rises again and warmth begins to spread across the Arctic. The Edmontonia is feasting on greens and the Troodon is taking a bite out of Gorgon. Soon, the Edmontosaurus will travel north again for the best migration ever.
Animals[edit]
Albertosaurus
Edmontosaurus
Gorgosaurus
Troodon
Edmontonia (Identified as an ankylosaur)
Quetzalcoatlus(Identified as an pterosaur)
Pachyrhinosaurus
Prognathodon
Unidentified Arctic mammal
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Primeval
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This article is about the science fiction TV series. For other uses, see Primeval (disambiguation).

Primeval
Primeval title over an anomaly
Series 4 & 5 title card

Genre
Science fiction, drama
Created by
Adrian Hodges
Tim Haines

Starring
Douglas Henshall
Jason Flemyng
Ciarán McMenamin
James Murray
Andrew-Lee Potts
Lucy Brown
Hannah Spearritt
Laila Rouass
Ben Mansfield
Ruth Kearney
Juliet Aubrey
Alexander Siddig
Ben Miller

Composer(s)
Dominik Scherrer
James Hannigan
Angus Moncrieff
Evan Jolly
Stephen McKeon

Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
5
No. of episodes
36 (List of episodes)
Production

Producer(s)
Cameron McAllister
Paul Frift
Tim Bradley Series 3–5

Running time
45 minutes
Production company(s)
ITV Studios
Pro 7
Impossible Pictures
Treasure Entertainment
M6 Films

Broadcast

Original channel
ITV (2007–2011)
Watch (2011)
Original run
10 February 2007 – 28 June 2011[1]
Chronology

Followed by
Primeval: New World
External links
Website
Production website
Primeval is a British science fiction drama television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, who previously created the Walking with... documentary series. Primeval follows a team of scientists tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across Great Britain through which prehistoric and futuristic creatures enter the present, as well as trying to prevent end-of-the-world scenarios from occurring.
First broadcast in the UK on 10 February 2007, it has since expanded to an international audience. Overall reception of the programme was positive during the first and second series, maintaining a 25% audience share in the United Kingdom during both series to date. Before it was broadcast on 9 August 2008 on BBC America, the programme received generally positive reaction from American critics as well. The third series, which ITV announced on 30 January 2008, began on 28 March 2009. In the US, series 3 premiered on 16 May 2009 on BBC America.
On 29 September 2009, it was announced that a deal had been struck between ITV, BBC Worldwide, Watch, Impossible Pictures and the German broadcaster ProSieben to produce two new series of the show for transmission in 2011.[2]
Five webisodes[3] were announced prior to the fourth series of seven episodes, which started airing on New Year's Day 2011 on ITV, STV, and UTV in the UK and on BBC America in the US.[4] The fifth series of six episodes aired on Watch in May 2011 and was repeated on ITV from 16 June 2012.[5][6] Tim Haines has stated that one day, the story will be continued, they only need commitment from a major broadcaster.[7] A Canadian spin-off, titled Primeval: New World, was announced on 15 September 2011, to premiere on 29 October 2012 on Space.[8] On 21 February 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Primeval: New World had been cancelled after a single season. Low ratings for the series caused Space and Bell Media to decide against renewing the show for a second season.[9]


Contents  [hide]
1 Premise 1.1 Series 1 (2007)
1.2 Series 2 (2008)
1.3 Series 3 (2009)
1.4 Series 4 (2011)
1.5 Series 5 (2011)
2 Cast
3 Episodes
4 Production 4.1 Filming
4.2 Advertising
4.3 Cancellation and revival
4.4 Spin-offs
5 Merchandise 5.1 Toys and action figures
5.2 Books
5.3 DVD releases
5.4 Music
6 Viewing statistics 6.1 Series 1
6.2 Series 2
6.3 Series 3
6.4 Series 4
6.5 Series 5
7 Reception
8 International broadcast
9 References
10 External links

Premise[edit]
Series 1 (2007)[edit]
Series 1 followed the efforts of Professor Nick Cutter (Douglas Henshall) and his associates, a friend and colleague Stephen Hart (James Murray), a student Connor Temple (Andrew-Lee Potts) and a zookeeper Abby Maitland (Hannah Spearritt) as they investigate the appearance of anomalies (called "earthquakes in time") that allow the passage to other times and places, allowing often-dangerous creatures from the distant past or future to threaten the lives of citizens. The British government's Home Office, under the supervision of James Lester (Ben Miller) and Claudia Brown (Lucy Brown), becomes involved after a Gorgonopsid travels through one such anomaly and wreaks havoc in the Forest of Dean. Professor Cutter's wife, Helen Cutter (Juliet Aubrey), presumed dead for eight years, was revealed to have been travelling in time through the anomalies. Cutter was unable to convince her to help as she had changed much from the woman he had once known, and he began to fall in love with Claudia. Meanwhile Abby began to take care of a Coelurosauravus she named Rex after he was left behind in the present, and was attracted to Stephen, who didn't completely reciprocate her feelings, despite Connor's attempts to get with her. The final episode of the first series sees the team deal with the consequences of an anomaly to the future opening in the Permian, allowing Predators from the future to access the past, and then follow Helen Cutter to the present. After the team secure the offspring of the Predator, killing an adult in the process, Cutter and Helen lead a group of soldiers into the Permian to secure the future anomaly and the time-line. However, an attack by a second adult Predator left Cutter and Helen as the only survivors. This disaster was predicted by Cutter seconds before it happened, as he realised that the camp he and the now dead Captain Ryan discovered on their first visit was in fact the remains of this expedition. Upon returning Cutter discovered Stephen had once had an affair with Helen before she had disappeared, and then learned that Claudia Brown no longer exists as the time-line had changed very slightly after their trip, and only he and Helen were aware of it.
Series 2 (2008)[edit]
The full circumstances behind the disappearance of Claudia Brown are never explained, with Cutter only knowing that it was the result of the visit to the Permian changing something in the present. In Claudia's place an assertive and quite different PR agent named Jenny Lewis joined the team in the Anomaly Research Centre or ARC, a building in the new time-line that deals with researching the anomalies. Having fallen for Claudia, a distraught Cutter was forced to start again with her look alike while Connor gained a girlfriend, Caroline Steel (Naomi Bentley), a woman with a hidden agenda whom Abby despised, but the two were drawn closer by an encounter with Mer Creatures (creatures from the future). As Stephen and Cutter tried to repair their friendship, Helen also returned and began rekindling her friendship with Stephen, and eventually their affair. Taking Claudia's previous position was a man named Oliver Leek (Karl Theobald), who secretly worked with Helen to use the anomalies to gain political power by gathering some of the creatures the team had encountered, and also controlling the future predators, using an unwitting Caroline to steal Rex for him. The team were also faced with an unusual man (Tim Faraday) whom they first encountered as a cleaner and who worked against the team before he was killed in the Silurian by a Silurian Scorpion. The final conflict of the season resulted in the deaths of Stephen, who died to save the lives of the rest of the team, and Leek, who was torn apart when he lost control of his creatures.
Series 3 (2009)[edit]
Series 3 found Cutter continuing to investigate anomalies and attempted to find ways of predicting them with the help of Stephen's replacement on the team, Captain Becker (Ben Mansfield). Meanwhile Lester had to deal with an old rival Christine Johnson (Belinda Stewart-Wilson), an unscrupulous government official who hoped to obtain the power of the anomalies and the Future Predators for military uses. With the assistance of Sarah Page (Laila Rouass), a professor employed at the British Museum, Cutter begins to piece together a map of all anomalies, based on folklore, and begins using them to make predictions about where anomalies will occur next. Helen tries to invade the ARC with a group of clones of the mysterious cleaner, with the intention of killing Cutter to stop his research causing the downfall of life on Earth. Cutter takes an artefact from Helen, and is shot and killed by her in the process, with his "prediction map" being completely destroyed. Connor obtains the artefact and discovers that it was in fact a map similar to the one devised by Cutter to predict anomalies. However, they are not able to get it to work, but they do manage to create a device to lock anomalies and prevent creatures coming through. Danny Quinn (Jason Flemyng), a former police detective who became involved after discovering his brother had been killed by a creature from the future, becomes the team leader following Cutter's death, while Jenny departs after having nearly died, and realising that Cutter's talk of Claudia Brown was in fact all true after seeing his photo of her. Connor and Abby's relationship grows, despite her brother Jack moving into her flat and going through an anomaly to the future. Helen returns near the season's end, with a device that opens anomalies at will, revealing that she will go back to eradicate the human race by killing the first hominids, in a second attempt to stop the future the team had seen coming to pass. She kills Christine and travels back to the future, followed by Danny, Connor and Abby. While Abby and an injured Connor are forced to remain in the late Cretaceous Danny catches up with Helen in the prehistoric past and Helen is killed by a raptor that had followed Danny into the Pliocene. The anomaly closes on him, leaving him trapped in the Pliocene and Abby and Connor trapped in the Cretaceous.
Series 4 (2011)[edit]
Series 4 was preceded by five webisodes that partially bridge the year that has passed.[10] New team members are introduced, and intrigues are set up, with Sarah having been killed in one of several attempted rescue missions led by Captain Becker. The ARC has been updated and restructured with a new team leader Matt Anderson (Ciarán McMenamin), a man with a hidden agenda with the ARC and the anomalies, Jess Parker (Ruth Kearney), a coordinator for the field team and Philip Burton (Alexander Siddig) an entrepreneur funding the ARC in a public/private partnership with the government.
Connor and Abby returned from the Cretaceous after finding Helen's dropped anomaly device, which was later eaten by a Spinosaurus that followed them. They were forced to earn their old jobs back by ending the reign of a Kaprosuchus living in the docks, following a new policy established during their disappearance where only people with a military background could work in the field. Later a group of time travellers arrived, including the mysterious Ethan Dobrowski (Jonathon Byrne), and Emily Merchant (Ruth Bradley), who is from the Victorian era. Matt took pity on Emily and kept her in his flat so they could find Ethan together, only for her to be kidnapped by him first, tied up, gagged and placed in a coffin, before being rescued. Meanwhile Abby and Connor's new relationship, formed during their time in the Cretaceous, became strained under their jobs, particularly when Philip threatened to put Rex down and Abby going against him without Connor's support, and Connor agreeing to work for Philip on his own research team. The finale found Danny returning from the Pliocene, and it was revealed that Ethan was in fact his brother Patrick, who had been changed by his experiences through the anomalies. Patrick escaped into the Pliocene with Danny pursuing him, but not before telling Matt that Philip had known Helen. Matt admitted to a departing Emily that he was from the future, sent back to prevent someone interfering with the anomalies and causing the Earth to become uninhabitable along with his father, Gideon (Anton Lesser), who had just died. Meanwhile Connor had done research into anomaly patterns and told Philip that he has discovered the anomalies will grow more frequent until they cause a catastrophe. Philip agreed to help find a solution, but asked that they keep the looming disaster to themselves for the time being.
Series 5 (2011)[edit]
Series 5 took place almost immediately after, with Philip recruiting Connor to help in his secret project called New Dawn, which would take energy from the anomalies and use it to solve the world's energy crisis. Matt, now aware Philip was responsible for the end of the world, asked for Abby's help after she figured out he was from the future due to his knowledge of Burrowing insects during an incursion. As they attempted to find out what Connor was researching with his assistant April Leonard (Janice Byrne), the team continued to deal with the anomalies. When Matt ended up in 1868 while trying to recapture a raptor, he encountered Emily and convinced her to return after finding out she would be committed to an asylum by her husband. Soon Connor created the first man-made anomaly in the ARC, however it caused a swarm of Future Beetles to invade the ARC, during which Matt and Abby revealed they were investigating Philip. In the aftermath of the crisis Connor went through Philip's files and discovered he had actually known Helen and had created a larger version of Connor's anomaly machine. Later several anomalies began opening at once as part of Convergence, a natural phenomenon that would change the Earth's magnetic pole from the north to the South, and a Tyrannosaurus rampage made the anomalies public. Philip abandoned Connor to activate New Dawn's anomaly as it required absorbing the energy from open anomalies, and Connor and Abby repaired their fractured relationship. Matt failed to stop Philip as he activated New Dawn and Connor, attempting sabotage, fell through the large anomaly and ended up in the desolate future Matt had lived in. While being rescued, the ARC was invaded by mutated versions of Future Predators, resulting in Lester becoming injured. Philip's anomaly became unstable, and Philip realised Helen had tricked him into wiping out humanity and tried to set things right by imploding the facility with him inside. Connor came up with a plan to use his anomaly to make the larger one unstable, and Matt drove it into the New Dawn anomaly with the intention of fulfiling his mission while sacrificing his own life. The plan worked and Matt somehow managed to survive, with the future changing once again. Abby, having whispered it earlier to Connor during the rescue, proposed to Connor and they became engaged. While the team is alerted to a new anomaly and prepare to head out, Matt encounters another version of himself, warning him to return home.
Cast[edit]
Main article: List of Primeval characters

Primeval's fifth series cast

 Fifth series cast (left to right): Ben Mansfield, Ruth Kearney, Ciarán McMenamin, Hannah Spearritt and Andrew-Lee PottsDouglas Henshall as Nick Cutter (series 1–3) Team Leader
Jason Flemyng as Danny Quinn (series 3, guest in series 4) Team Leader
Ciarán McMenamin as Matt Anderson (series 4–5) Team Leader
James Murray as Stephen Hart (series 1–2)
Andrew-Lee Potts as Connor Temple (series 1–5)
Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown/Jenny Lewis (series 1–3, guest in series 4)
Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland (series 1–5)
Laila Rouass as Sarah Page (series 3)
Ben Mansfield as Captain Hilary Becker (series 3–5)
Ruth Kearney as Jess Parker (series 4–5)
Juliet Aubrey as Helen Cutter (series 1–3)
Alexander Siddig as Philip Burton (series 4–5)
Ben Miller as James Lester (series 1–5)
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Primeval episodes

Series
Episodes
Originally aired (UK dates)

Series premiere
Series finale
1 6 10 February 2007 17 March 2007
2 7 12 January 2008 23 February 2008
3 10 28 March 2009 6 June 2009
4 7 1 January 2011 5 February 2011
5 6 24 May 2011 28 June 2011
Production[edit]
Filming[edit]
The series was filmed at Pinewood Studios, Black Park, Buckinghamshire, London Underground, New Den Stadium and CEME (the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence near Ford Dagenham)[11][12] Whipsnade Zoo, London Zoo, the Canary Islands, Bentalls Shopping Centre, Thorpe Park, Bournemouth beach[13] the Alexandra Road estate, Camden and the British Museum.
The Duke of Kent building at the University of Surrey, Guildford is used as the back-drop for the team's HQ, the ARC (Anomaly Research Centre).
Filming of the second series completed on 1 October 2007, and was broadcast in early[12] 2008.[14] Caroline Steel and Oliver Leek, portrayed by Naomi Bentley and Karl Theobald respectively, were two new characters for the second series, both of whom conspired with Helen Cutter.[14]
In an effort to cut costs and avail of generous Irish Tax incentives for television production, filming for series 4 and 5 moved to Ireland, starting on 22 March 2010, at locations around Dublin and Wicklow. Locations Manager Dermot Cleary confirmed the first block was to be filmed in Powerscourt Estate, The O2, Dublin port, Grand Canal Dock and Park West Business Park.[15][16]
Advertising[edit]
Primeval billboards and banners were erected around London shortly before the airdate. Series 1 had several posters, most of which had exaggerated creatures from the show (the Arthropleura was depicted as being roughly human-sized in the show but was shown as being as large as a house in the billboards). Series 2 and 3 have also had prominent advertising campaigns.
Cancellation and revival[edit]
In May 2009, The Sun had reported that Primeval was to be axed owing to ITV's recent admission of a £2.7 billion loss (though not solely as a result of Primeval's budget). ITV strongly denied this claim, with a spokesperson stating "It's not true, it's not going to be axed, it just hasn't been recommissioned and it is not unusual to wait for a series to run before considering recommission".[17] However, by June 2009, ITV confirmed the show was axed.[18] On 15 June 2009, ITV announced that they had cancelled the show and that there would not be a fourth series.[18] At the same time, it was suggested that the production team would attempt to keep "Primeval alive in other ways".[19][20] An ITV spokesman is quoted as saying:

"After three very successful series of Primeval there are no plans at the present time for it to return to ITV. High-quality drama remains a key part of the ITV schedule although our current focus is on post-watershed productions."
A likely contributing factor to the show's cancellation was ITV's suffering severe financial troubles during 2009, reporting a £105 million half-year loss. As a result some of its other popular shows including Heartbeat were axed.[21] On 29 September 2009, it was announced that two new series of the show would be produced for transmission in 2011, retaining most of the Series 3 cast;[22] Laila Rouass[23] stated that she will not be returning. The new deal meant the seven-part series four aired on ITV in early 2011, before being repeated on UKTV's Watch channel, while the six-part series five will get its debut on Watch before showing on ITV.[24] Filming for series 4 and 5 of Primeval started on 22 March 2010 and finished in November 2010,[16] with January 2011 set as the new series 4 airdate. Filming for series 4 was confirmed to have finished on 25 June, with filming for series 5 starting immediately.[25]
On 7 April 2010, three new regular characters were announced for series four and five. These were scientist Philip Burton, to be played by Alexander Siddig, Matt, the new field leader, to be played by Ciarán McMenamin and Jess, played by Ruth Kearney, who will run operations from the ARC Control Centre.[26]
Spin-offs[edit]
Plans for a feature film version of Primeval were announced in May 2009 by ITV with Warner Bros., having acquired the screen rights, with Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster named as the producers.[27]
On 15 September 2011, Primeval: New World, a Canadian spin-off of the Primeval series, was announced as being in development for the Canadian television channel Space. It is a co-production between Omni Film productions, Impossible Pictures, and Bell Media. Production began in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the winter of 2011.[28]
Merchandise[edit]
Toys and action figures[edit]
The master toy licence for Primeval was given to Character Options, the same company that created the Doctor Who toy line. Jon Diver, joint MD at Character Group, stated that the series one toy line will be "extensive" and was scheduled for release in October 2007, followed by a series two toy line released in January 2008 to correspond with the second series. The toy line includes all of the main characters and a few of the creatures.[29] A large plush toy version of Rex was also put into production. It is unknown if the toys will be shipped over to America. The Primeval Toy line includes:
Main Characters (Nick Cutter, Helen Cutter, Stephen Hart, Connor Temple, Abby Maitland, James Lester, Claudia Brown, Jenny Lewis, Captain Tom Ryan)
Creatures (Rex, Giant Arachnids, Hesperonis, Dodo & Parasite, Anurognathus, Future Predator, Raptor, Sabre-Tooth, Mer-Creature, Giant Scorpion)
Sets (Anomaly Incursion Set, Creature Incursion Set, Anomaly Detector Build-A-Figure)
Plush Rex with sound
Flying Rex & Anurognathus
Handheld Anomaly Detector with lights & sound
Books[edit]
Main article: List of Primeval books and novelisations
Ladybird Books have published two sticker books (one of which is a glow in the dark sticker book) a poster book, a tattoo activity title, a wipe-clean activity book, and a summer annual for children from five to eight years old.[30]
Puffin Books have published four Primeval paperback books named A Rip in Time, Dangerous Dimension, The Lost Predator, and Fight for Survival, based on the episodes in Series 1.[30]
Four original novels have also been published by Titan Books, to behave more like extra episodes than novelisations. The first is Shadow of the Jaguar by Steven Savile, which revealed that anomalies appear overseas. The second novel, written by acclaimed fantasy writer Paul Kearney, is entitled The Lost Island. The third, Extinction Event is by Dan Abnett who has also written "Torchwood" and "Doctor Who" books. The fourth and thus far final novel, entitled Fire and Water, is by Simon Guerrier and features Danny Quinn as lead character.[31]
DVD releases[edit]
Series 1 was released on a two disc DVD by 2 Entertain on 19 March 2007 in Region 2; a specially created "Making of Primeval" documentary was included in the volume. Series 2 was released on 17 March 2008, also containing two discs and a new documentary. In North America, series 1 and 2 were combined into a Region 1 four disc box set titled "Primeval: Volume One", which was released on 4 November 2008. Series 1 and 2 were not released individually in North America. Series 3 was released on a three disc set in Region 2 on 1 June 2009, with the finale included before it was aired on television due to its broadcast being postponed by a week; like the previous sets it contained a new documentary. It was released in Region 1 on 15 September 2009 under the name "Primeval: Volume Two". Series 4 was released on 21 February 2011 on DVD in Region 2 and on Blu-ray in Region B.[32] 2 Entertain also released "Series 1–2" and "Series 1–3" box sets containing all of the DVDs released at the time. Series 5 was released by 2 Entertain on DVD and Blu-ray in Regions 2 and 4 on 4 July 2011.[33] Series 4 and 5 were released on Blu-ray and DVD in Region 1 on 10 January 2012.
Music[edit]

PRIMEVAL
 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by Dominik Sherrer

Released
20 September 2011
Recorded
2007–2009 at Angel Studios, Hear No Evil Studios, Crimson Noise Studios
Length
75:45
Label
MovieScore Media
Producer
Mikael Carlsson, Dominik Scherrer
Music for the first three seasons was composed by Dominik Scherrer. He spent ten days composing tracks and an additional three days to record and mix them for each episode.[34] He opted to create music that was a hybrid between electronic and traditional orchestra, noting that the urban nature of the setting and the attitudes of the characters were an influence. Scherrer said that the CGI nature of the show was a creative challenge, as the themes he scored for the creatures were often based on incomplete images. He noted "sometimes a drawing of the creature, or just a description from the director may help me get a feel for the creature. The final look and texture can be very influential on the music".[34]
On 25 August 2011, MovieScore Media announced that the Primeval soundtrack, containing songs from the first three seasons, would be released on 20 September 2011.[35]
All music composed by Dominik Scherrer except "Dracorex", composed by Dominik Scherrer and Angus Moncrieff.

No.
Title
Length

1. "Primeval Theme"   3:21
2. "Rex"   2:12
3. "Cretaceous Sea"   1:50
4. "Silurian Scorpions"   2:06
5. "Into the Late Permian"   2:01
6. "Columbian Mammoth"   2:32
7. "The Mystery of the Anomalies"   1:30
8. "Chasing a Silurian Millipede"   1:51
9. "Coming Home"   2:00
10. "Connor and Abby at the Hospital"   1:38
11. "Gorgonopsid vs Future Predator"   3:17
12. "Stay with Me"   2:34
13. "Pteranodon"   4:03
14. "Tom Dies"   3:29
15. "Infected"   2:51
16. "Smilodon Attack"   2:09
17. "Raptors at the Shopping Mall"   3:40
18. "Firechief"   1:32
19. "Taylor"   2:01
20. "Carnivorous Worms"   4:36
21. "Val Revealed"   3:27
22. "Back to the Cretaceous"   4:10
23. "Sabretooth Battle"   3:21
24. "Jenny Lewis"   2:19
25. "Contaminated"   3:23
26. "Dracorex"   2:16
27. "Helen, Where are You?"   1:19
28. "The Merqueen"   3:38
29. "Primeval Titles"   0:39
Viewing statistics[edit]
The first episode gained a final viewing figure of 7.09 million people. The series averaged 6.39 million viewers.[36] When shown in Germany it gained a total audience of 2.78 million viewers. These figures do not take into account the viewing figures for repeats of the programme.[37] After all seven episodes, series two averaged 6.29 million viewers making a very slight drop of 100,000 from the series 1 average.
Although episode 3.3 received low viewer ratings in the UK, the second half of the show was aired during the opposing BBC transmission of a special edition of Doctor Who.[38][39] Series 3 was also broadcast much later in the year than previous seasons so warmer weather could be a factor to explain a small decrease in viewership but little change in the percentage of audience share. Nevertheless, Primeval remains in the Top 30 most viewed programmes for ITV per week, beating many of the Top 30 for other stations as well.[37]
Series 1[edit]

Episode
Overnight rating (share)[40]
Final rating[41]
1.1 6.7 million (29%) 7.09 million
1.2 6.0 million (28%) 6.29 million
1.3 5.8 million (25%) 6.17 million
1.4 5.6 million (24%) 5.81 million
1.5 6.2 million (28%) 6.46 million
1.6 6.1 million (27%) 6.52 million
Average:
6.39 million

Series 2[edit]

Episode
Overnight rating (share)[40]
Final rating[41]
2.1 5.8 million (26%) 6.32 million
2.2 5.6 million (25%) 6.05 million
2.3 5.7 million (26%) 6.27 million
2.4 5.7 million (24%) 6.39 million
2.5 5.8 million (26%) 6.33 million
2.6 6.0 million (27%) 6.45 million
2.7 5.6 million (26%) 6.20 million
Average:
6.28 million

Series 3[edit]

Episode
Overnight rating (share)[40]
Final rating[41]
3.1 5.3 million (24%) 5.89 million
3.2 4.4 million (23%) 4.94 million
3.3 2.7 million (14%) 3.28 million
3.4 4.5 million (23%) 4.97 million
3.5 4.9 million (26%) 5.20 million
3.6 4.7 million (25%) 5.27 million
3.7 4.9 million (25%) 5.34 million
3.8 4.6 million (22%) 5.13 million
3.9 4.6 million (25%) 5.06 million
3.10 3.9 million (20%) 5.01 million
Average:
4.99 million

Series 4[edit]

Episode
Overnight rating (share)[40]
Final rating[42]
Total viewers

ITV1 (including ITV1 HD)
ITV1
ITV1 HD
ITV1 +1
4.1 4.45 million (17%) 4.94 million 0.39 million TBA 5.33 million
4.2 3.30 million (13%)[43] 3.88 million 0.39 million TBA 4.27 million
4.3 3.74 million (16%) 4.17 million 0.32 million TBA 4.49 million
4.4 3.85 million (16%) 4.15 million 0.42 million 0.19 million 4.76 million
4.5 3.93 million (17%)[44] 4.21 million 0.43 million 0.13 million 4.77 million
4.6 3.39 million (15%)[45] 3.83 million 0.45 million 0.15 million 4.43 million
4.7 3.60 million (15%)[46] 4.09 million 0.36 million 0.17 million 4.62 million
Average: 4.67 million
Series 5[edit]

Episode
Watch[47]
Watch +1[47]
Total viewers
Overnight rating (share)
Final rating

Viewers
Rank
Viewers
Rank
ITV1
ITV1 HD
ITV1 +1
5.1 618,000 No. 1 76,000 No. 1 694,000 2.55 million (14.1%) TBA 394,000 (2.0%) 2.97 million
5.2 523,000 No. 1 65,000 No. 1 588,000 1.77 million (10.9%) TBA 400,000 (2.2%) 2.17 million
5.3 525,000 No. 1 67,000 No. 1 592,000 1.85 million (11.6%) TBA 345,000 (1.9%) 2.20 million
5.4 438,000 No. 1 109,000 No. 1 547,000 1.59 million (9.7%) TBA 275,000 (1.5%) 1.87 million
5.5 477,000 No. 1 71,000 No. 1 548,000 1.79 million (12%) TBA 184,000 (1.1%) 1.97 million
5.6 496,000 No. 1 77,000 No. 1 573,000 1.38 million (10.2%)[1] TBA 327,000 (2.1%) 1.71 million
Average: 590,000 Average: 2.14 million
Reception[edit]
TV critic Charlie Brooker reviewed Primeval in the final episode of his BBC Four show Screenwipe, and gave it a rave review saying that it was "far better than Torchwood for instance" commenting "I hope you're listening, Russell T Davies". "Unashamedly Saturday night populist viewing for the masses" with "some of the best special effects [he'd] ever seen... in a British TV show" he went on.[48]
First broadcast on BBC America on 9 August 2008, Primeval met with generally favourable reviews among American critics, earning 73 out of 100 on the aggregate review site Metacritic.[49] Calling the show both child-friendly and entertaining for adults, Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune noted the unusual date of the American première, stating that "most networks...have shied away from launching shows during August, when the Beijing Olympics are expected to dominate the TV landscape."[50] Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette praised Primeval's special effects and sense of humour.[51] Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times criticised the music and emotional direction of the narrative, saying of protagonist Nick Cutter "I know your wife has been missing for years, but ye gods, man, that's a bloody dinosaur."[52]
Comparisons have been made between Primeval and the popular BBC series Doctor Who, which is famous for its use of time travel. The producers of Primeval have consistently resisted comparison of the series with Doctor Who, calling Primeval more "reality-based." Actor Douglas Henshall instead compared the series to The A-Team, calling Primeval an ensemble piece featuring characters with different backgrounds who must work together.[53] Torchwood creator and former Doctor Who head writer Russell T Davies commented on the show in 2007, criticising Primeval's lack of ethnic casting as "shameful," but then adding "apart from that, I think it's excellent".[54] Sarah Page, played by the Moroccan-Indian actress Laila Rouass, joined the show temporarily as a member of the main team for Series 3.
International broadcast[edit]


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Country / region
Network
Premiere date
source(s)
Australia Nine Network 28 April 2007 [55]
Canada Space 4 April 2007 [56]
New Zealand TV2 11 July 2007 [57]
United Kingdom ITV 10 February 2007 [58]
Watch 24 May 2011 [59]
United States BBC America 9 August 2008 [60]
SyFy 10 April 2009 (HD) [61]
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Prehistoric Park
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Prehistoric Park
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Prehistoric Park title card

Genre
Science fiction / Docu-fiction
Starring
Nigel Marven
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
6
Production

Running time
48 minutes
Production company(s)
Impossible Pictures
Broadcast

Original channel
ITV (2006)
Animal Planet (2006–present)
National Geographic Channel (2012–present)
Original run
July 22, 2006 – August 26, 2006
Chronology

Related shows
Chased by Dinosaurs
Sea Monsters
Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Beasts
Walking with Monsters
Prehistoric Park is a six-episode Docu-fiction television mini-series that premiered on ITV on 22 July 2006 and on Animal Planet on 29 October 2006. The program was produced by Impossible Pictures, who also created Walking with Dinosaurs. Each episode is an hour long including commercial breaks. Repeats of the show are broadcast in the UK on Watch.
The program is narrated by David Jason and presented by Nigel Marven. The fictional component is the theme that Nigel goes back to various geological time periods through a space-time portal, and brings back live specimens of extinct animals back to the present day, where they are exhibited in a wildlife park named Prehistoric Park, which is a big area between high steep mountains and ocean, with varied environments.


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1 Story
2 Characters
3 Episodes
4 Locations within the park
5 Animals
6 Filming locations
7 DVD
8 See also
9 External links

Story[edit]
The story, which is told in the style of a documentary, focuses on naturalist Nigel Marven leading missions to find and collect extinct animals from the distant past by use of a time machine. The animals are then placed in the confines of Prehistoric Park, a private wildlife park that is situated in a dry, mountainous region of an unspecified part of the world. Marven's core motivation in the series is to defy extinction and to give select extinct species a second chance at life.
Characters[edit]
Nigel Marven (playing himself).
Bob (Rod Arthur) - the long-suffering head keeper at the park. In charge of feeding, cleaning and controlling the animals in the park.
Suzanne (Suzanne McNabb) - the head veterinarian. Responsible for treating animals when they're sick or injured.
Saba Douglas-Hamilton (playing herself) - a big cat specialist, whom Nigel invites back to catch Smilodon in episode 4.
Bill - a crew member who travels back with Nigel. Introduced in episode 5.
Jim - an associate of Nigel who travels with him through time. Also introduced in episode 5.
Ben (Morgan Williams)- One of Nigel's crew. Four Mei long attacked him for meat in his backpack. Introduced in episode 3.
There are various other staff members, but none of their names have been given. One of the more prominent is Suzanne's blonde assistant, who appears in all episodes except episode 1.
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Prehistoric Park episodes
Series 1 (2006)
Episode 1: T-Rex Returns
Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking
Episode 3: Dinobirds
Episode 4: Saving the Sabretooth
Episode 5: The Bug House
Episode 6: Supercroc
Locations within the park[edit]
Main article: List of locations in Prehistoric Park
When the animals are brought back to the park, they are placed into an nearby enclosure. The enclosures are named after the extinct animals that they are housing.
Mammoth Mount: This enclosure houses the park's woolly mammoth Martha.T-Rex Hill: T-Rex Hill is home to the park's pair of Tyrannosaurus rex, Terence and Matilda.Big Cat Climb: This two part enclosure features a pair of breeding sabre-tooth cats.Triceratops Creek: Theo is the resident triceratops at Triceratops Creek.Deinosuchus Dip: This is a huge lake, where the park's deinosuchus is kept.Ornithomimus Pond: This paddock features a herd of ornithomimus.The Bug House This state of the art enclosure keeps its Carboniferous period creatures safe. Its oxygen levels inside are double what they are today, and this keeps the Arthropleura, Meganeura and Pulmonoscorpius happy.
Animals[edit]
The extinct animals that are brought to Prehistoric Park throughout the series are as follows:
A male Triceratops named Theo.
A herd of around thirteen to twenty Ornithomimus, which go on to have twelve chicks.
Two young Tyrannosaurus rex, who are siblings. One is a male named Terrence, and the other is a female named Matilda.
A female Woolly Mammoth named Martha.
A male Elasmotherium. (Wooly Rhino)
A small group of Microraptors.
A herd of nine titanosaurs.
A Phorusrhacid. (Terror Bird).
Two Sabre-toothed Cats, one male and one female. The Cats later go on to have two cubs.
A Meganeura (Giant Dragonfly).
A Pulmonoscorpius (Giant Scorpion).
An Arthropleura. (Giant Centipede).
A Deinosuchus. (Massive Croc).
A Troodon. Unlike the other animals, Nigel and the crew do not intentionally bring back the Troodon, it hides in the back of their truck as they return to the present.
As well as the extinct animals, there are also several modern-day animals that reside in the park. These include a herd of African Elephants, a Cheetah, a group of Nile Crocodiles and free-roaming Egrets and Ibis. Nigel also keeps a few smaller animals in and around his base, which include a Blue and Yellow Macaw, a Hermann's Tortoise, a Western Hog-nosed Snake and a Jackson's Chameleon.
Animals seen in the wild:
Episode 1 T-rex Returns
Ornithomimus
Tyrannosaurus
Triceratops
Nyctosaurus unidentified
Episode 2 A Mammoth Undertaking
Ursus Spelaeus (Cave Bear)
Woolly Mammoth
Cro-Magnon (live-acted by Human)
Cave Hyena (live-acted by Spotted Hyena)
Gray Wolf (live-acted by Siberian husky)
Elasmotherium (Wooly Rhino)
Episode 3 Dinobirds
Anhanguera (pterosaur) (identified as Pterosaur)
Incisivosaurus
Mei Long (Mei (dinosaur))
Microraptor
Borealosaurus (identified as Titanosaur)
Episode 4 Saving the Sabre-Tooth
Toxodon (massive Hippo like mammals)
Smilodon (Saber-toothed cat)
Phorusrhacos (Terror Bird)
Six-banded Armadillo (live-acted)
Red Brocket Deer (live-acted)
Episode 5 The Bug House
Meganeura (identified as Giant Dragonfly)
Arthropleura (giant Centipede)
Pulmonoscorpius (identified as Giant Scorpion)
Crassigyrinus (giant swamp amphibian)
Episode 6 Supercroc
Parasaurolophus
Albertosaurus
Nyctosaurus
Deinosuchus (massive Croc)
Troodon
Filming locations[edit]

Episode
Where set
Where filmed
1 Montana, United States The Andean national parks of Chile where there are plenty of Araucaria and Nothofagus trees
2 Siberia The Yukon in Canada
3 China Rotorua, New Zealand, in the Redwood, Ohakuri, and Tikitere forests
4 South America Dry grassland near Brasilia in Brazil
5 Coal forest in Scotland Swamp forest in southern Florida, but some of the vegetation was CGI
6 Texas, USA The freshwater lakes of Fraser Island, Australia
DVD[edit]
The Region 1 DVD was released on 5 June 2007 by BCI Eclipse, under license from Fremantle Media.
The Region 2 DVD was released in Britain on 28 August 2006 by Fremantle Media. [1]
The Region 4 DVD was released in Australia and surrounding islands on 6 October 2006. Charles Wooley narrated the series when broadcast on Australia's Nine Network, and the Region 4 DVD has the original narration by David Jason.
See also[edit]
Paleoworld
Dinosaur Planet (TV series)
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
ITV's Prehistoric Park was created by the makers of a series of BBC documentaries that also include:
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
Walking with Beasts (2001), depicting life after the dinosaurs
Walking with Cavemen (2003)
Walking with Monsters (2005), depicting life before the dinosaurs
The following are Walking With... series specials:
The Ballad of Big Al (2000)
Chased by Dinosaurs (2002)
Sea Monsters (2003)
The following are similar programs, produced by the BBC:
"Prehistoric America" (2003)
"Monsters We Met" (2004)
External links[edit]
Prehistoric Park at itv.com/citv (including episode guide and images)
Animal Planet - Prehistoric Park
Impossible Pictures minisite
A Prehistoric Park RPG at Jurassic Park Legacy
Nigel Marven's production photos
Prehistoric Park at the Internet Movie Database
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The Lost World (2001 film)
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Directed by
Stuart Orme
Produced by
Christopher Hall
Written by
Tony Mulholland
Adrian Hodges
Based on
The Lost World novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring
Bob Hoskins
James Fox
Matthew Rhys
Tom Ward
Elaine Cassidy
Peter Falk
Music by
Robert Lane
Release date(s)
25 and 26 December 2001
Running time
145 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
The Lost World is a 2001 adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, directed by Stuart Orme and adapted by Adrian Hodges. It was filmed at various locations on the West Coast of New Zealand. The film was produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom and A&E in the United States. It consisted of two 75 minute episodes which were first aired in the UK on 25 and 26 December 2001, and in the USA on 6 and 7 October 2002. In the DVD version, these two episodes are merged into one full length film. Bob Hoskins played Professor Challenger and was supported by James Fox, Peter Falk, Matthew Rhys, Tom Ward and Elaine Cassidy.


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3 Creatures
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Plot[edit]
While on a journey through the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest, a long extinct animal shot by Professor George Challenger's (Bob Hoskins) team turns out to be a prehistoric pterosaur. During a lecture at the Natural History Museum of London, he argues that it is genuine and that he shot it several months ago. The lecturer, Professor Leo Summerlee (James Fox) dismisses it as nothing more than a clever hoax, as do several others. Eventually ambitious Lord John Roxton (Tom Ward), a noted hunter and womanizer, and Daily Gazette columnist Edward Malone (Matthew Rhys) announce they will volunteer for the expedition and even Summerlee joins them.
On the boat, Challenger shows a sarcastic Summerlee and his expedition members a map, drawn up by a Portuguese man called Padre Mendoz who ended up in the remote, uncharted area of Brazil which Challenger claims prehistoric creatures thrive. Most notably, there is a plateau, which would supposedly isolate the inhabitants from the evolutionary mainstream for millions of years. Upon arrival, Roxton begins flirting with Agnes (Elaine Cassidy), the niece of reverend Theo Kerr (Peter Falk), a priest who disregards the idea of evolution. Agnes joins them for the expedition, with the reverend later reluctantly joining them.
After a long and eventful journey through the jungle, they eventually find the plateau. They go inside a cave which was the only route out the plateau only to discover that it was exploded years ago, sealing off the cave. Instead they cross over a log bridge, which the reverend suddenly pushes into a deep crevice in an abrupt mood swing, thus leaving them stranded. In the strange prehistoric redwood forest, Edward makes friends with a Hypsilophodon, and the stunned group spot an Iguanodon, and then a group of Pteranodons who attack and injure Summerlee.
After retreating to the forest, in the middle of the night, while they are gathered around the campfire they are attacked by a large dinosaur, which is later identified by Summerlee as an Allosaurus. The next day Edward is scared out a tree by an ape man called Pithecanthropus which in his words "looked almost human". They then search for and find a large lake in the centre of the plateau which Malone had discovered while up the tree, and he names it after his fiancee, Gladys, while Roxton and the professors rest by the beach. Edward and Agnes walk off along the beach until the allosaur from last night emerges from the forest and drinks from the lake, but soon notices them as they run into the forest. In the cliffhanger ending of the first episode, the allosaur pursues them through the borders of the forest until they all fall into a pit, where the allosaur is killed after being impaled on two wooden spikes.
After making their escape, they find out that Challenger and Summerlee have been kidnapped by the ape men. The apes take them to an enclosed sacrificial chamber, where they are placed on a thick sheet of rock which is covered with blood. The sun shines through a crack and the beasts place Summerlee's head in a groove on the plate of rock, about to smash his head with a large stone and eat him when Roxton and the group start shooting all the ape men. Challenger tries to save the creatures, calling them "the missing link between animal and human" upon leaving the animals territory, the group also rescue an Indian chief's son, Achille. The tribe recognizes Challenger as Padre Mendoz, the Portuguese man that returned from the plateau and drew up a map of the area. They are taken to the other end of the cave they found earlier and told of how a man, who they thought was the "Devil", came to visit them and then left, sealing off the cave and trapping the Indians inside the plateau. The two groups cooperate very well together, with Challenger sitting by the chief's side, and Roxton marrying Maree, the patriarch's daughter. However, the presence of the ape men disturb the tribes people but, with Professor Challenger's protection, they remain safe from harm and are kept in a wooden cage on the border of the village.
However, two allosaurs attack the village after weeks of harmony (having been called to the village by the vengeful ape men). After causing much death and destruction, the first male allosaur is killed by Roxton with his elephant gun but the larger female allosaur mortally wounds the chief. In an act of kindness, Agnes and Malone set the ape men loose and they flee back into the jungle. Edward eventually kills the larger dinosaur, but the chief dies in the arms of Achille, who blames the white intruders. During the attack, Summerlee reopens the cave by blowing up the debris blocking their only escape route. After Achille assumes command, the outsiders flee while Roxton stays behind to stall them. However, one psychotic ape, who remained behind and obtained a knife, stabs Roxton in the torso, presumably killing him, but is then shot by Achille. Outside, the remaining group discover the reverend remained near the plateau after stranding them and that he visited the Indians years ago before sealing off the cave. He intends to kill all of them and seal off the cave again to prevent the plateau and its inhabitants from being found and revealed. While struggling with Summerlee, the reverend accidentally shoots himself in the chest and dies.
The explorers go back to London and upon returning, Edward discovers that Gladys is engaged to another man. Later that evening, the juvenile pterosaur that Challenger brings back escapes. Afterwards, Malone and Summerlee urge Challenger to end the whole affair so that the plateau and its inhabitants can exist in peace, realising it would be exploited if its location were to be revealed. The pterosaur is dismissed as an Amazonian vulture, while the articles Edward sent back are passed off as extracts of a novel he is writing. Edward confesses he loves Agnes, who tells him the same, and they kiss in the great hall of the museum where the crew have been exposed as frauds. In the final scene, Roxton is revealed to be alive and well, having survived his injury and is still happily married to Maree.
Cast[edit]
Bob Hoskins as Professor George Challenger
James Fox as Professor Leo Summerlee
Tom Ward as Lord John Roxton
Matthew Rhys as Edward Malone
Elaine Cassidy as Agnes
Peter Falk as Reverend Theo Kerr
Creatures[edit]
Allosaurus − A well known allosaurid dinosaur from the late Jurassic North America more than 150 million years ago and if you look closer you can see it is a model from the Walking with Dinosaurs special The Ballad of Big Al.
Java Man − An ape-man originally called Pithecanthropus erectus, today classified as Homo erectus, is a primitive hominid from the early Pleistocene epoch 2 million years ago. This creature is described as the missing link between primates and humans. In the film an undiscovered species appear, and Challenger named them "Pithecanthropus challengeris".
Pteranodon − A giant fish-eater flying reptile called pterosaur from the middle Cretaceous period more than a hundred million years ago. This creature is the only proof from Challenger's very first expedition, and later he named the species as "Pteranodon sumerleensis".
Hypsilophodon − A small herbivore ornithopod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous England 130 million years ago. This is the first prehistoric creature which is discovered by Challenger's team in the plateau, and not much later they find the Iguanodon.
Iguanodon − A gentle herbivore from the Cretaceous Europe in the same time with Hypsilophodon. Professor Summerlee thought these creatures moved like a kangaroo on two legs and their tail kept on the ground, but this idea is debunked when he sees the quadrupedal animals.
Entelodon − A strange hog-like mammal from the Oligocene and Miocene Asia. This is the only prehistoric mammal in the film besides the Pithecanthropus.
Diplodocus − A more than 40-metre-long sauropod from the late Jurassic Morrison Formation 150 million years ago. It uses the same computer model from the Walking with Dinosaurs series.
Brachiosaurus − A massive sauropod from the same time and the same place like the allosaurs and Diplodocus.
Epanterias - An allosaur that lived at the same time as its cousin Allosaurus. It is the main antagonist of the film. It is often confused for the Allosaurus as it was called by Professor Summerlee simply an allosaur.
Southern Coral Snake − A venomous snake from the rainforests of South America.
Brazilian Black Tarantula − A venomous spider which lives in the South American jungles, but sometimes travels to the village to hunt insects or reptiles.
Atlas Moth − A large moth from the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Professor Sumerlee found the moth while a Pteranodon carries away the team's dinner.
Scarlet Macaw − A large and colourful macaw from the American tropics of south-eastern Mexico to the rainforests of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. It is a more than 80-centimetre-long bird with a weight of about 1 kilogram.
Brown Capuchin − A small New World monkey from the tropical rainforests of the Amazon Basin.
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Sea Monsters
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DVD cover

Genre
Documentary
Created by
Tim Haines
Directed by
Jasper James
Presented by
Nigel Marven
Narrated by
Karen Hayley
Composer(s)
Ben Bartlett
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
3
Production

Executive producer(s)
Adam Kemp
Tim Haines
Producer(s)
Jasper James
Running time
90 minutes
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Impossible Pictures
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC, Discovery Channel, ProSieben
Original run
9 September 2003 – 23 September 2003
Chronology

Related shows
Other shows in the Walking with... series
External links
Website
Sea Monsters is a 2003 BBC television trilogy which used computer-generated imagery to show past life in Earth's seas. In the U.S. it was known as Chased by Sea Monsters. It was made by Impossible Pictures, the creators of Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts and Walking with Monsters. In the series, the British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven is shown travelling to seven past seas in the history of the Earth and scuba diving there, in order of dangerousness with the most dangerous last. He travels in a white sailboat or motorboat roughly 24 m (80 ft) long named 'The Ancient Mariner'. His time-travelling device is not mentioned or shown, and the closest thing to it is his time map, showing the timeline of the seven deadliest seas and the creatures that lived at the time. He uses a scuba set with a fullface mask so he can talk underwater to produce the commentary. He performs some dives using a strong shark cage, which is spherical to make it harder for large sea creatures to bite it.
Video Release[edit]
Sea Monsters has never been released on DVD in the UK, but featured on the American Chased by Dinosaurs DVD and a similar Region 2 Dutch DVD. It is also available on Netflix in the UK.
Episodes[edit]
As originally broadcast, the first episode had three segments and the second and third two each.

Ep.
Title
Period
Time
Hazards

1.1
"The Seventh Most Deadly Sea" The Ordovician 450 mya Giant Orthocones, Sea Scorpions
New York in the Ordovician, the day is only 21 hours long and there is more carbon dioxide than in the 21st century, forcing Nigel to don a medical-looking backpack filled with air tanks with a special oxygen mixture. To attract a Megalograptus (1 m), Nigel finds the corpse of a dead armor-plated fish washed up on the beach. Because there is no land life, there are no coastal scavengers to eat what the sea spits out. Before long, Nigel wades into shallow water and the armor-plated fish attracts a large Megalograptus. The creature devours the armor-plated fish, before attacking Nigel's foot, cutting it badly.
Later on, Nigel attempts to go after a Cameroceras (9 m) by removing the eye of a dead trilobite and replacing it with a small video camera. He then uses the inflatable raft to venture out into the deeper waters, where he throws the trilobite video camera combo overboard. However, a Megalograptus is quickly attracted to it, and Nigel immediately gets it off of the trilobite. Later in the afternoon, a Cameroceras grabs and eats the trilobite, and Nigel and the cameraman plunge overboard to film it. On the dive, Nigel wears a chain mail suit, so that any marauding sea scorpion cannot harm him. He finds the Cameroceras and, after deterring it from attacking him by shining a torch in its eyes, he watches it devour two Megalograptus. The Cameroceras is more agile in the sea than Nigel, and as it attempts to swim away, Nigel grabs onto its shell. When the Cameroceras starts to dive down into the depths, Nigel swims away to the surface, almost getting attacked by another Megalograptus. When Nigel pilots the boat back to shore, he finds a surprise: there are large numbers of Megalograptus mating in the shallow waters. Nigel manages to make his way safely through the Megalograptus hordes, but a few clamber onto the inflatable boat and puncture it.
Animals: Cameroceras (Identified as a Giant Orthocone)  · Megalograptus (Identified as a Sea Scorpion)  · Astraspis (Identified as an Armor-plated Fish)  · Isotelus (Identified as a Trilobite)
 · Unidentified Graptolite
1.2
"The Sixth Most Deadly Sea" The Triassic 230 mya Nothosaurs, Cymbospondylus
As Nigel walks along the tropical coastlines of Triassic Switzerland, he explains that the reptiles are taking over the surface of the earth from the skies (e.g. Peteinosaurus [1 m]), to the land (e.g. Coelurosaurs [2 m]). But of course, he is here to see the earliest sea reptiles.
From the deck of the Ancient Mariner, Nigel and crew watch as a Nothosaurus (3 m) comes up for air. When he sees one, Nigel dives into the seas, pursuing the elusive sea reptile.
Before long, Nigel finds a pair of Nothosaurus. The Nothosaurus circle him, and Nigel has his prod ready to put off any Nothosaurus that comes too close. One of the Nothosaurus move in closer, so Nigel grabs it around its head to swim with it, and he explains that he would be able to open and close its jaws with tremendous force, but the Nothosaurus' jaw muscles are very weak. Therefore he can ride with it without the Nothosaurus struggling . He lets the Nothosaurus go so that it can breathe air, and Nigel discovers another bizarre sea reptile: a Tanystropheus (4 m).
Nigel follows the female Tanystropheus, and attempts to get a closer look at her by grabbing onto her tail, impeding her movement. The Tanystropheus struggles with all of her might, but Nigel still had a grip on her tail. Nigel wouldn't let go of her tail, but however, the Tanystropheus loses her tail, similar to the modern day leopard gecko. Nigel can hold onto the tail only with difficulty, because it is thrashing around (intended as a predator deterrent). Suddenly the tail is snatched up and then eaten by a Cymbospondylus (9 m).
The Cymbospondylus begins to circle Nigel , and he explains that its slow movement is designed to deceive prey, and it can move very quickly when it is needed to. After he pokes it with the prod several times, the Cymbospondylus swims away, and Nigel returns to the relative safety of the Ancient Mariner.
Animals:  · Cymbospondylus  · Unidentified Coelurosaur (same model as Coelophysis)  · Nothosaurus (Identified as a Nothosaur)  · Tanystropheus  · Cymbospondylus  · Peteinosaurus (Identified as a Pterosaur) · 'Unidentified placodonts (in book)  · Neuticosaurus (in book)  · Mastodonsaurus (in book)
 · Cynodont (in book)
1.3
"The Fifth Most Deadly Sea" The Devonian 360 mya Dunkleosteus
On a preliminary dive, another crew member of the Mariner (Mike) films a huge female Dunkleosteus (9 m), swimming around the shallow reefs near the Ancient Mariner. The crew springs into action, and Nigel goes fishing for Bothriolepis(30cm). Nigel places a bet with one of the other crew members that the Dunkleosteus will be able to slice through the Bothriolepis wrapped in the chain mail suit he used in the Ordovician. When the round shark cage is fully assembled, Nigel descends into it. The smell of the dead Bothriolepis begins to attract a young Stethacanthus(70cm). Eventually, the monstrous Dunkleosteus is sighted, which scares away the Stethacanthus, and the enraged fish repeatedly bashes the cage with its thick head, and looks as though it's about to rip a hole in the cage. However, the enraged fish only slightly dents the cage. Eventually, Nigel throws the Bothriolepis out of the cage, and the Dunkleosteus slices through the chainmail and the Bothriolepis. A young Dunkleosteus (1 m) feeds on the remains of the bait, but the huge adult turns cannibal and kills the baby. She then regurgitates the indigestible parts of its meal (the armor plating and the chainmail).
As Nigel departs for the surface, he explains that the placoderms as a whole have a grim future ahead of them. In another twenty million years, the entire Class of Placoderms will disappear, much to the other Devonian fish's relief.
Animals: Bothriolepis (Identified as a Placoderm) Dunkleosteus  · Stethacanthus (Identified informally as an "Ironing Board" Shark)  · Onychodus (in book)  · Cladoselache (in book)  · Cheirolepis (in book)  · Graptolite (in book)
 · Coelocanth (in book)
2.1
"The Fourth Most Deadly Sea" The Eocene 36 mya Basilosaurus
While walking in the mangrove swamps of Egypt, Nigel comes across some mysterious footprints and a mound of fresh dung, by smelling the manure, he proves that the owner is a fruit-eater. Following the tracks, Nigel comes across an Arsinotherium (3 m) migrating overland. Nigel takes a calculated risk and offers the huge fruit-eater an apple, but apparently this upsets the Arsinotherium and it charges at Nigel. Only by making a break into the thicker forests does Nigel escape from the mammal. Nigel watches from the forest as the Arsinotherium plunges into the water, and follows it. In the water, Nigel watches as a trio of Dorudon, a species of ancient whale, pass by, and he explains that whales are the reason he came: not for the Dorudon (4 m), but a far bigger and meaner whale, Basilosaurus (15/24 m) who eats Dorudon for a meal.
The Ancient Mariner sails offshore, where the crew try a tactic to attract whales that has been used with mixed success: record a Basilosaurus call and play it back via a huge speaker that is lowered from the boat. After playing it for a while, an enraged Basilosaurus (15 m) rams into the boat before diving again. Wasting no time, Nigel suits up and dives. However, the whale could attack from any direction, so Nigel stays close to the hull of the Mariner, using the boat like a shield to ward off the Basilosaurus. The Basilosaurus is evidently distressed by the calls, and attacks and disables the speaker (which is explained as a territorial response).
As the Ancient Mariner sails off forward through time, Nigel explains that the tropical Eocene is a world on the brink of great climatic change. As the Oligocene dawns, Basilosaurus, Arsinotherium and Dorudon will all vanish, victims of the climatic shifts that ended the Eocene, changing the warm sea into a cold ocean.
Animals: Basilosaurus  · Arsinoitherium  · Dorudon  · Palaeomastodon (in book)  · Physogaleus (in book)
 · Sarkastodon (in book)
2.2
"The Third Most Deadly Sea" The Pliocene 4 mya Megalodon
In the coast of Peru, the crew of the Mariner come to an agreement. Before diving in offshore waters with the adult Megalodon (15 m), Nigel will dive in the coastal waters, with the juveniles.
Before very long, Nigel finds an Odobenocetops (2 m) foraging for oysters in the mud, and it is being hunted by an adolescent Megalodon (6 m) shark. Only by taking cover in the thick underwater foliage do Nigel and the Odobenocetops manage to escape the huge shark.
On the next dive (with the adults), Nigel uses the round shark cage that he previously used in the Devonian era against Dunkleosteus. This time, Nigel hopes to fire a small video camera into the dorsal fin of the shark from the relative safety of the cage. Eventually, a Megalodon (15 m) is spotted, and Nigel quickly gets into the cage, while the crew sets up bait (a bag of chum), which quickly attracts the shark. As it attempts to attack the cage, Nigel tries to fire the camera.
However, Nigel panics, and never fires it. Later, he tries again, this time from the surface of the Mariner, as the dorsal fin of the Megalodon was much too high to aim at. The shark is drawn again to the boat via liberal amounts of chum. The shark tries to grab the chum but Nigel is nowhere to be seen. Nigel has been knocked off the boat by the shark and when he swims back, he finally managed to land a hit with the shark-camera, and the Megalodon grabs and swallows the chum. In a few days, they find the camera floating in the sea, and when they load it into the on-board television, they watch the Megalodon in question attack a Cetotherium (also a whale because the shape wasn't an Odobenocetops).
When the crew of the Ancient Mariner head backwards in time, Nigel says that as the Ice Age begins, the whales that Megalodon preyed on migrated to colder waters, where Megalodon could not follow. Megalodon is doomed to extinction, by hunger.
Animals: Megalodon  · Odobenocetops  · Cetotherium (Identified as a whale)  · Thalassocnus (in book)
 · Great White Sharks (in book)
3.1
"The Second Most Deadly Sea" The Jurassic 155 mya Liopleurodon
Set around England, which was then largely underwater. This is the second most dangerous sea. Hazards include Liopleurodon (25/28 m), the largest carnivorous animal of all time. Nigel spies a school of migrating Leedsichthys (25/28 m). One weaker one is lagging behind the school, and a native Metriorhynchus (3 m) and a foreign Hybodus (2 m) shark launch a joint attack. Using sonar, Nigel discovers that a huge Liopleurodon (28 m) is heading toward the injured and dying Leedsichthys (28 m). The camera spots it circling the Leedsichthys which is already dead, though the Liopleurodon is eventually spooked away by the camera.
Nigel equips his and the cameraman's diving suit with a chemical system that will spray a cloud of deterrent at the huge pliosaur should they get too close. The crew use huge waterproof lights when they descend to the corpse of the Leedsichthys, because it is night. A pair of Liopleurodon (each 18 m and 20 m) are feasting on the carcass, and Nigel starts to move closer toward them. When one turns its head towards him, Nigel panics and ejects the chemical, which works on the huge predator.
Animals: Liopleurodon  · Leedsichthys  · Metriorhynchus  · Hybodus  · Cryptoclidus (in book)  · Ophthalmosaurus (in book)  · Eustreptospondylus (in book)
 · Rhamphorhynchus (in book)
3.2
"The Most Deadly Sea Ever" The Cretaceous 75 mya Xiphactinus, Sharks, Giant Mosasaurs
Nigel is now entering his final sea mission in "Hell's Aquarium" as he calls it. On the land there's T. Rex (12 m), but even the most famous land predator of all time can't compare to what's in the water. After viewing a colony of Hesperornis (2 m) on the coastline, Nigel and another member of the Mariner pause for a second to view a huge underwater bloodbath. As far as Nigel (using a periscope) can figure out, an elderly Hesperornis was killed, and the resulting carnage has attracted many sea animals, such as Squalicorax (5 m), and Xiphactinus (6 m). However, Nigel noticed another predator around: a mosasaur known as Halisaurus (5 m). Nigel and the crew head out to deeper water in search of Tylosaurus (14 m). But Nigel explains that this sea is far too dangerous to go diving in because of mosasaurs (18 m) and other huge carnivores like Xiphactinus. Instead, the crew of the Ancient Mariner have rigged an ROV to dive for them, while the sonar and cameras on the side of the boat would give them early warning if any mosasaurs are nearby.
The next morning, Nigel discovers that they have hit a dead Archelon (2 m), which was mauled by some other predator before being hit by the boat. Later, after managing to domesticate a Pteranodon (6 m), the sonar picks up some creatures right beneath the boat. This was a good time for them to use the ROV, and when they send it down, the crew finds that it's a small pod of Elasmosaurus (12/14 m) riding their wake like 21st century dolphins, but soon they depart due to the risk that they may provoke the herd. Some of them knocked the ROV when they were investigating it, and an Archelon (3 m) is also spotted. Having done the same thing with present-day leatherback turtles, Nigel risks his personal safety to track down the Archelon and ride it. He and the cameraman ride off in the small inflatable raft.
Before long, Nigel finds the Archelon when it comes up to the surface for air. He dives, grabbing onto the huge turtle's shell. But not long after, the sonar picked up something nearby: a Xiphactinus was circling Nigel and the Archelon. He quickly makes his escape back up to the raft, but disaster strikes. A family pod of Tylosaurus (6/18 m) attack and completely overturn the raft, plunging the crew into the sea. Fortunately for Nigel, the Tylosaurus (18 m) seem more interested in the boat than the humans, and they quickly escape back to the Mariner. However that night, as the men sleep, several kinds of mosasaurs (8/18 m) appear, apparently attracted to the Mariner, and rush straight to the boat, leaving the crew's fate unknown.
Animals: Tylosaurus (Identified as a Giant Mosasaur)  · Hesperornis  · Squalicorax (Identified as a shark)  · Xiphactinus  · Halisaurus (Identified as a Mosasaur)  · Tyrannosaurus  · Pteranodon  · Elasmosaurus  · Archelon
 · Giant Squid (in book)
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Walking with Cavemen
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Walking with Cavemen
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Genre
Documentary
Starring
Suzanne Cave, Ruth Dawes, Peter Elliott, Caroline Noh, and Anthony Taylor
Narrated by
Robert Winston in UK, Alec Baldwin in North America
Theme music composer
Alan Parker
Country of origin
UK
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
4
Production

Executive producer(s)
Richard Dale
Producer(s)
Nick Green, Mark Hedgecoe, and Peter Oxley
Running time
25 min.
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC and Discovery Channel
First shown in
1 April 2003
Chronology

Related shows
The Walking with... series
External links
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Walking with Cavemen is a four-part television documentary series about human evolution produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was originally released in April 2003. It was subsequently presented in the United States as a two-part series by the Discovery Channel and its affiliates. There was an accompanying book of the same title.
Like previous Walking with... documentaries, Walking with Cavemen is produced in the style of a nature documentary, featuring a voice-over narrator (Robert Winston in the British release, Alec Baldwin in the North American release) who describes the recreations of the prehistoric past as if they were real. As with the predecessors, this approach necessitated the presentation of speculation as if it were fact, and some of the statements made about the behaviour of the creatures are more open to question than the documentary may indicate.
Each segment takes the form of a short drama featuring a group of the particular hominid in question going about their daily lives (the search for food, protecting territory, and caring for the sick and injured). The intent is to get the human viewer to feel for the creatures being examined, almost to imagine being one of them (a trait that the documentary links to the modern human brain).


Contents  [hide]
1 Production
2 Episodes
3 See also
4 External links

Production[edit]
The documentary was produced largely by the same team who produced the award-winning Walking with... documentary series, though the original series' director, Tim Haines, was not involved.
In the previous Walking with... documentaries, extinct animals were recreated with CGI and animatronics. For Walking with Cavemen, a slightly different approach was taken. While most of the animals depicted were still computer generated or animatronic, the human ancestors were portrayed by actors wearing makeup and prosthetics, giving them a more realistic look and permitting the actors to give the creatures a humanistic quality.
Episodes[edit]

No.
Title
Time
Hominids
Location

1
"First Ancestors" 3.2 mya Australopithecus afarensis Ethiopia
In the first episode, we see Australopithecus afarensis, and focus on their evolved bipedality. The story follows the famous Lucy and her relatives, as they first develop a leadership conflict following the death of the alpha male due to a crocodile attack, and then are attacked by a rival troop. The attack ends with the death of Lucy herself, and her eldest daughter caring for Lucy's now-orphaned baby sibling, as a sign of the developing humanity in these "apemen".
Animals: Ancylotherium  · Deinotherium  · Verreaux's Eagle  · Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
 · Zebra finch
2
"Blood Brothers" 2 mya Paranthropus boisei, Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis East Africa
The second episode leaps forward to a time when Paranthropus boisei, Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis co-exist. H. habilis is depicted as an intelligent omnivore that is more adaptable than the herbivorous P. boisei. The two species are contrasted, with H. habilis being "a jack of all trades", while P. boisei are "a master of one" - i.e. they are specialized herbivores while H. habilis are generalized omnivores. Consequently, though P. boisei are able to eat termites, tall grasses and hard acacia pods in difficult times, they will not be able to survive in the future, when at the beginning of the next Ice Age the climate will change, and these plants will be gone for good. H. habilis, on the contrary, have become smart by eating fresh carrion and bone marrow among other things, and evolving a basic social behavior, which is more firm than that of P. boisei, will continue to survive, until it evolves into Homo ergaster, seen in the next episode, who has developed these traits to a greater extent.
The episode also briefly shows the H. rudolfensis, remarking that although they are taller, they are very similar to the H. habilis.
Animals: Dinofelis  · Deinotherium  · Ancylotherium  · Lion  · Eland  · Impala  · Bees
 · Vultures
3
"Savage Family" 1.5 mya–500,000 ya Homo ergaster, Homo erectus Kenya, China
In the third episode, Homo ergaster is depicted as the first creature to master the art of tracking. This was made possible because their diet has grown increasingly more carnivorous, and the nutrients in meat made them even smarter than H. habilis of the previous episode. They also begin to form into tribal societies, with genuine bonds between their men and women, though violence is still occurring.
The episode later shows H. ergaster spreading into Asia, becoming Homo erectus and encountering the enormous herbivorous ape Gigantopithecus, "the original King Kong".
However, for the next million years, H. ergaster is still very much an animal, following its instinct, but then, they are shown harnessing fire and beginning to break-away from their direct dependence on their environment.
Animals: Wildebeest  · Swallow ((Elephant))  · Tarantula  · Ants  · Giraffe  · Baboon
 · Gigantopithecus
4
"The Survivors" 400,000 ya–30,000 ya Homo heidelbergensis, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens idaltu, Homo sapiens Europe, Africa
The fourth episode first shows Homo heidelbergensis in Britain. H. heidelbergensis is depicted as intelligent and sensitive but lacking in the ability to comprehend an afterlife, or anything that isn't in the "here and now".
Next, the episode shows a clan of Homo neanderthalensis, how they lived and hunted, including the mighty mammoth during the last ice age. Finally in Africa then we see Homo sapiens idaltu which are not getting along in Africa's drought unlike the Neanderthals, along with them we see modern Homo sapiens (represented by bushmen), who had to become imaginative and inventive to survive the long drought unlike their subspecies idaltu, and finally glimpse the cave painters of Europe, who had "evolved" the idea of the afterlife and the supernatural, and now ready to start the human history as it is now known (and drive the Neanderthals to extinction).
Animals: Megaloceros  · Mountain hare  · Woolly Mammoth  · Beetle
 · Snake
See also[edit]
A Species Odyssey a similar program on France 3
Before We Ruled the Earth a two-part documentary aired on Discovery Channel
External links[edit]
Walking with Cavemen - BBC Science & Nature
Walking with Cavemen - TV series


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The Lost World (2001) ·
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 The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life (2006)
 

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Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
 

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Chased by Dinosaurs
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Chased By Dinosaurs

Format
Documentary
Starring
Nigel Marven
Composer(s)
Ben Bartlett
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Impossible Pictures
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC
Original airing
2002
Chronology

Related shows
Other shows in the Walking with... series
Chased by Dinosaurs is a BBC program featuring Nigel Marven as a time-traveller who encounters dinosaurs in the wild. The two-part series, a sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs, was broadcast over Christmas 2002 and featured Nigel and his "team of fellow explorers" encountering prehistoric life over a large range of time, and seeing creatures not featured in the original series. A three part sequel, Sea Monsters, was later broadcast in 2003 and the similar series Prehistoric Park was produced by ITV in 2006. The series title wasn't used on screen, as it is the title for the Region 1 DVD (which also includes Sea Monsters).


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1 Episodes
2 DVD release
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Episodes[edit]

No.
Title
Time
Place
Hazards
Filming location

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Nigel Marvin travels back in time with his film crew. He travels to a nearby lake, where the Argentinosaurus (35 m) nest every year. There Nigel sees a juvenile Argentinosaurus (10 m), where he is attacked by a Sarcosuchus (13 m). Nigel then coaxes it out of the lake by splashing a stick in the water. The Sarcosuchus lies on the shore. Nigel attaches a video camera to his head and walks towards it, and demonstrates its biting power by pushing a stick into its mouth and having the Sarcosuchus bite down on it. Later Nigel climbs up the volcanic slopes to get a panoramic view of the area to see the Argentinosaurus herd. Instead he finds a herd of iguanodonts (10 m). His search leads him all the way to the coast, where he views a colony of Pteranodon (6 m) on the cliffs hunting fish. Nigel doesn't return to the campsite until night, where he finds that a large predator has attacked his tent, and left all the provisions littered across the surrounding ground. He finds a single theropod dinosaur tooth jammed in a can of meat. The next morning Nigel has set up an alarm system outside the camp so that if something breaks the laser tripwire, a loud alarm will sound, alerting Nigel. Later he tracks down the predator, where, around midday, Nigel hears a commotion further ahead. He finds a wounded iguanodont in a rocky gully. He walks further upstream to find a smaller dead individual with a Giganotosaurus (14 m) eating it. Later Nigel is shown flying over the ash-fields in an ultralight. Soon he finds another Pteranodon flock. After breaking away he sees an Ornithocheirus (12 m), one of the largest animals ever to fly. Soon Nigel discovers the Argentinosaurus herd far below, so he lands the ultra light nearby his jeep. He then drives off towards the herd and locates it without any trouble. After appreciating their gargantuan size, Nigel drives into a natural 'funnel', caused by a break in some trees. He then sets up some weighing scales designed for lorries. After several fruitless attempts, an Argentinosaurus steps on the scales, showing that it weighs 92.3 tons, and Nigel explains that that's the same as 30 African elephants. The next morning Nigel is driving the jeep 20 miles away from the camp, and finds a iguanodont that seems to be running away from him, but he realizes that it is actually escaping a Giganotosaurus that is chasing them both. Nigel narrowly escapes the predator only to meet up with the herd later in the morning to find an entire pack of Giganotosaurus mobbing the herd. By the afternoon the pack has singled out a youngster, and is inflicting wounds, waiting for her to bleed to death. The hunt continues for the rest of the day and into the night, when filming is no longer possible and Nigel must leave. The next morning, Nigel finds the herd at the nesting site beside the lake. While the females are laying their eggs Nigel comments on what a magical ending this is for his dinosaur safari. Suddenly a Sarcosuchus lunges at him out of the water. Nigel just escapes, but his camera is consumed.
Animals: Argentinosaurus  · Sarcosuchus  · Pteranodon  · Giganotosaurus  · Ornithocheirus  · Macrogryphosaurus
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Nigel searches the early Mongolia deserts and forests for Therizinosaurus (10 m, +5 t), who has massive and very long claws. Nigel's tent is immediately trampled by a Saurolophus (10 m), but he still goes off for his adventure. On his journey, Nigel dashes across a nesting ground of Protoceratops (3 m), and deflects them from attacking him by using a red flag. He enters a forest ruled by Velociraptors, and finds a pack of them bringing down a large male Protoceratops. In the night, Nigel catches a scorpion and explains that they have been on the planet long before the dinosaurs, and are still alive today. He also finds a group of Mononykus (1 m) and discovers they have feathers. The next morning he finds that the Mononykus have eaten his scorpion, and heads out of the denser parts of the forest. There he finds the nesting site of a Therizinosaurus, along with the embryo of one, but also finds herbivore dung around the area. Nigel cannot understand why it is scattered around the nest of Therizinosaurus which he thinks must be a predator. He continues his journey, and a group of Mononykus run past him, but he finds out that they are actually running away from a Tarbosaurus (9,5 m, 4 t) that is nearby. He narrowly escapes the predator and decided to head to a freshwater lake to see if there are any sings of Therizinosaurus there. He finds an entire skeleton of one, and reassembles one of the arms. He speculates that Therizinosaurus used the claws for disemboweling prey, but he gets even more confused as he also finds herbivore teeth amongst the bones. Before Nigel can continue searching, he finds a pack of Velociraptors hunting him. He escapes them by driving them off with a fog horn, and hears some noises by the lake. There, he finds a Tarbosaurus coming down to drink, and while observing it, he finally finds a Therizinosaurus. The two creatures fight each other, with the Tarbosaurus backing down after getting wounded by the huge claws of the Therizinosaurus. After the Tarbosaurus leaves, Nigel is surprised as he finds a whole herd of Therizinosaurus browsing on the trees, which meant that Therizinosaurus is actually a plant-eater that uses its sickle-claws to drag leaves towards its mouth. Nigel attempts to touch one, and he does. He continues observing it using his camera, and at the end, the Therizinosaurus licks Nigel's camera, which makes him fall.
Animals: Saurolophus  · Protoceratops  · Velociraptor  · Mononykus  · Tarbosaurus  · Therizinosaurus
DVD release[edit]
The two specials weren't released until 2004 when they were released as part of the Big Dinosaur Box Set which also included the previously released Walking with Dinosaurs and The Ballad of Big Al. The DVD has not been released individually. A Region 1 version was released later that year as a separate DVD and also included Sea Monsters.
See also[edit]
Paleoworld
Dinosaur Planet (TV series)
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Chased by Dinosaurs is a spin-off of the following series of BBC documentaries:
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
Walking with Beasts (2001), depicting life after the dinosaurs
Walking with Cavemen (2003)
Walking with Monsters (2005), depicting life before the dinosaurs
Chased by Dinosaurs is one of the Walking With... series specials, that also include:
The Ballad of Big Al (2001)
Sea Monsters (2003)
Prehistoric Park (2006)
The following are similar programs, produced by the BBC:
Prehistoric America (2003)
Monsters We Met (2004)
References[edit]

External links[edit]
Chased by Dinosaurs at the Internet Movie Database


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The Ballad of Big Al
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The Ballad of Big Al
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Format
Documentary
Created by
Tim Haines, Jasper James
Narrated by
Kenneth Branagh
Theme music composer
Ben Bartlett
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Production

Producer(s)
Tim Haines
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Impossible Pictures
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC
Original airing
2001
Chronology

Related shows
Other shows in the Walking with... series
The Ballad of Big Al (distributed in the North American market as Allosaurus: a Walking with Dinosaurs Special) is a combination biography-sequel for Walking with Dinosaurs . It focuses on an Allosaurus (Allosaurus fragilis) named Big Al and his constant struggle to survive in a world filled with danger.


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1 Narrative 1.1 Evidence
1.2 Critical Reaction
2 American and Book Versions 2.1 American
2.2 Book
3 BBC Game
4 See also
5 External links

Narrative[edit]
Animals featured are:
Allosaurus
Apatosaurus
Dryosaurus
Stegosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Ornitholestes
Othnielia
Anurognathus
Diplodocus
Iguana (live-acted)
Toad (live-acted)
Axolotl (live-acted)
Dragonfly (live-acted)
Scorpion (live-acted)
The special begins at the University of Wyoming, showing the bones of a sauropod followed by an Allosaurus named Big Al. After the ghost of Big Al wanders the museum passing by his own skeleton and a nest of eggs, the film then travels back in time to 145 Mya showing a nest containing some eggs. Al and his siblings hatch and are helped out of the nest by their mother. She brings them to a river bank and the hatchlings start to hunt for insects. When the mother leaves the hatchlings temporarily, a year-old Allosaurus comes and kills one of them (fortunately, Al isn't the victim).
Al is then shown at two years old. He is trying to hunt a flock of Dryosaurus. He hasn't yet learned how to ambush so he fails to kill one of the swifter, smaller dinosaurs. Later, he snatches a lizard from a branch. Al comes across a dead Stegosaurus and an Allosaurus waiting for death in a pit of sticky mud. Meanwhile, a female Allosaurus, attracted to the Stegosaurus carcass, also gets stuck. She struggles to free herself, but fails. Al luckily avoids the same fate as he had learnt to avoid carrion. Unable to escape, the trapped Allosaurus pair die of exhaustion, their corpses left to Anurognathus.
Five years pass, and a herd of Diplodocus are migrating across the prehistoric salt lake. Al is joined by several other Allosaurus and they attempt to bring a weak member of the herd down. Once the herd leaves the sick Diplodocus, the Allosaurs gather. Al is struck down by the neck of the Diplodocus. The pack wait for a few hours until the Diplodocus is brought down by heat exhaustion and his illness. Though they feed, within the hour an adult female Allosaurus scavenges the kill. Al takes some remnants of the carcass for himself and leaves
A year passes by, and Al is shown drinking at a pond. His presence however makes others around the pond nervous and the smell of blood he brings with him puts off a pair of Stegosaurus who were attempting to mate. Away from the pond, he discovers the scent of a female Allosaurus and issues a mating call. She is not interested, but the inexperienced Al gets too close. Al is lucky enough to escape from the ensuing fight with his life, although he sustains a torn right arm, ripped right claw and smashed ribs. Later the dry season comes, and Al is attempting to hunt a flock of Dryosaurus. Whilst ambushing them, he trips on a log and ends up breaking something in his right foot. As the dry season turns to a drought, Al's limp from the fall gets worse and his right middle toe -which he broke in the fall- has become badly infected. Soon, unable to hunt, he dies in a dried-up riverbed, where two hatchling Allosaurus are hunting for bugs and come across his emaciated carcass. He is said not to have reached full size, dying as a mature adolescent and his fossilisation preserved even his injuries including -amongst other injuries and diseases- lumps where his ribs healed after their break and the raging infection on his middle toe.
Evidence[edit]
A "making of" documentary was made called "Big Al Uncovered". It focuses on the discovery and pathologies of the Allosaurus specimen nicknamed Big Al.
Critical Reaction[edit]
The Ballad Of Big Al won two 2001 Emmy Awards [1] including Adelphoi Music Ltd's Andrew Sherriff and Ashley Bates for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Non-Fiction Program.
American and Book Versions[edit]
American[edit]
The American version was renamed Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special, along with combining the evidence with Al's life. Also they took out the one of the trapped Allosaurus and the birds and reptiles behavior, and shots of Al living in the 21st Century.
Book[edit]
A children's book was made, called Allosaurus! The Life and Death of Big Al, and it differs from both the American and UK versions in some aspects.
Al's sibling was killed by a male Allosaurus on the show, while it was killed by an Ornitholestes in the book.
The Stegosaurus was shown dead in the show, while it was alive and struggling (trying to fight off the Allosaurus pair) and soon died in the book.
In the show at the sixth year, Al is hunting Dryosaurus. In the book he is hunting Othnielia.
Al tripped on a log in the show, while he tripped on a mound of dirt in the book.
BBC Game[edit]
The BBC launched an online Role-Playing Game involving Big Al, now replaced by the Planet Dinosaur online game.
See also[edit]
Paleoworld
Dinosaur Planet (TV series)
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
The Ballad of Big Al is part of a series of BBC documentaries that also include:
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), depicting life during the age of dinosaurs
Walking with Beasts (2001), depicting life after the dinosaurs
Walking with Cavemen (2003) depicting early men struggling for survival
Walking with Monsters (2005), depicting life before the dinosaurs
The following are Walking With... series specials:
Sea Monsters (2003)
Chased by Dinosaurs (2002)
Prehistoric Park (2006)
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Prehistoric America (2003)
Monsters We Met (2004)
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Walking with Monsters -
 Life Before Dinosaurs
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Genre
Documentary
Developed by
Andrew Wilks
Narrated by
Kenneth Branagh
Theme music composer
Ben Bartlett
Country of origin
UK
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
3
Production

Executive producer(s)
Tim Haines
Producer(s)
Chloe Leland
Running time
30 minutes
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Impossible Pictures
Distributor
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Broadcast

Original channel
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Original airing
5 November 2005
Chronology

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Walking with Monsters (also distributed as Before the Dinosaurs - Walking with Monsters or Walking with Monsters - Life Before Dinosaurs) is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles.[1] As with previous Walking with... installments, it is narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Using state-of-the-art visual effects, this prequel to Walking with Dinosaurs shows an epic 300 million year war between creatures before the dinosaurs. The series draws on the knowledge of over 600 scientists and depicts Paleozoic history, from the Cambrian Period (530 million years ago) to the Early Triassic Period (248 million years ago). It was written and directed by Tim Haines. As with some of the other BBC specials, it was renamed in North America, where its title was Before the Dinosaurs: Walking with Monsters. It has also aired as a two-hour special on the Canadian and American Discovery Channel with yet another narrator though Kenneth Brangh's narration can be heard in this version sometimes. At the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006 it won the Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More).
Episodes[edit]

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Director
Original air date

1
"Water Dwellers" 530/418/360 mya Chloe Leland 5 November 2005
530 million years ago: Cambrian, Chengjiang, ChinaOxygen Content: 30% below todayHazards: world's first super predator
The first episode begins with an illustration of the giant impact hypothesis: approximately 4.4 billion years ago when the Earth was formed, it is conjectured that a planet-like object referred to as Theia collided into the early Earth, dynamically reshaping the Earth and forming the moon. The episode then jumps ahead to the Cambrian Explosion, showing the first diversification of life in the sea. Strange arthropod predators called Anomalocaris feed on trilobites, and fight with each other, whereupon the wounded loser is attacked by a school of Haikouichthys, described as the first vertebrate.
Animals: Anomalocaris  · Haikouichthys  · Redlichiida  · Jellyfish
418 million years ago: Silurian, South Wales, UKOxygen Content: 30% below todayHazards: giant scorpions
The segment moves on to the Silurian period, where Haikouichthys has evolved into the jawless-fish Cephalaspis. The marine scorpion Brontoscorpio pursues a Cephalaspis but falls victim to the giant eurypterid Pterygotus, whose young feed on the smaller scorpion's body. Later a shoal of Cephalspis migrate into the shallows to spawn, navigating via memory thanks to their advanced (for the time) vertebrate brains. As they cross a shallow embankment, they are ambushed by several Brontoscorpio which are depicted as the first animals capable of walking on land. Several fish are killed but the majority slip past the feasting scorpions and arrive at the spawning site. One scorpion misses this feeding opportunity due to having to molt its skin.
Animals: Cephalaspis  · Brontoscorpio  · Pterygotus  · Cameroceras  · Sea sponge  · Sea urchin
360 million years ago: Devonian, Pennsylvania, USAOxygen Content: 20% below todayHazards: giant killer fish
A short sequence depicts Cephalaspis evolving into Hynerpeton (bypassing the lobe-finned fish stage), amphibian-like tetrapods. Though capable of terrestrial movement, Hynerpeton have to remain near water to keep moist and reproduce. A lone male Hynerpeton hunting underwater is threatened by predatory fish, at first by a Stethacanthus which is eaten by a two-ton Hyneria that chases the amphibian out of the water. After seeing off a rival during the night, the male finds a receptive female at dawn and the two mate at the water's edge. They are ambushed by the Hyneria, which beaches herself in the process, but then uses her fins to drag herself ashore and grab the fleeing male. Despite his untimely death, the Hynerpeton eggs were successfully fertilized and sink into the water to develop. A sequence depicts them acquiring hard shells as the first reptiles evolve, but as the offspring leave their nest, those left behind are soon at the mercy of a giant spider, representing the return of the arthropods.
Animals: Hynerpeton  · Hyneria  · Stethacanthus
 · Scorpion (Brontoscorpio)
2
"Reptile's Beginnings" 300/280 mya Chloe Leland 5 November 2005
300 million years ago: Carboniferous, Kansas, USAOxygen Content: 40% above todayHazards: giant insects
The second episode shows the swampy coal forests of the Carboniferous. It explains that because of a much higher oxygen content in the atmosphere, giant land arthropods evolved, such as a Mesothelae (a member of the primitive spider suborder however this one is the first species of that order), Meganeura; a giant dragonfly the size of a eagle and Arthropleura; a huge millipede relative. A Mesothelae hunts down a Petrolacosaurus. She comes back from her hunting expedition only to find her burrow has flooded. Not only that, the Petrolacosaurus she caught is stolen by a Meganeura. On the spider's search for a new burrow, she passes a pond full of Reptiliomorphs (which would make a more central appearance later on). Later she is chased by an Arthropleura, which is later killed in a fight with a Proterogyrinus. The Mesothelae finally chases a Petrolacosaurus out of its own burrow and moves in. A storm brews and the narrator explains that its high oxygen content makes the atmosphere very combustible, so lightning is a real danger. The Proterogyrinus are seen leaping out of the water to catch Meganeura, which were driven below the tree canopy by the storm. Later, lightning and a forest fire pour in, devastating the life around. At last, only some animals survive...including Petrolacosaurus, who finds the dead body of the Mesothelae (her burrow was at the centre of a lightning strike) and begins to feed upon the spider's carcass.
Animals: Megarachne  · Petrolacosaurus  · Meganeura  · Arthropleura  · Proterogyrinus
280 million years ago: Early Permian, Bromacker, GermanyGlobal Temp: 20% colder than todayHazards: extreme seasons
The episode then moves on to the Early Permian, where the swamp-loving trees of the Carboniferous have been replaced with more advanced conifers that are better adapted to survive in a changing climate. Petrolacosaurus and a few other diapsids have evolved into the sub-group of creatures called pelycosaurs like the Edaphosaurus which are now closely related to mammals. They live in herds and have outgrown their arthropod contemporaries in size. A pregnant female Dimetrodon, another pelycosaur, hunts the Edaphosaurus herd, beginning with a fake charge to expose the weak and the juveniles. She finally kills a baby Edaphosaurus, but is forced to abandon her kill when the scent of blood attracts others of her kind, all of which were males. She builds a nest on a hill and is watched by an egg-stealing Reptiliomorph. Some time after laying her eggs, another gravid Dimetrodon tries to take over her nest. After a long duel, the original female drives off the intruder, but is badly injured and fatigued in the process. A male Dimetrodon approaches the now unguarded nest, but luckily kills the thieving reptiliomorph and leaves the eggs unharmed. The eggs hatch and the mother's bond with her offspring is severed. The episode ends with the wounded mother joining other adult Dimetrodon in attacking her own young which race to the trees and hide in dung to escape. At the end the narrator says that the reptiles evolve to tighten their grip on land, becoming "new reptiles."
Animals: Dimetrodon  · Edaphosaurus  · Seymouria
 · unidentified Dragonfly
3
"Clash of Titans" 250/248 mya Tim Haines 5 November 2005
250 million years ago: Late Permian, SiberiaGlobal Temp: 60% hotter than todayHazards: extreme heat, volcanic activity
The third episode is set in the Late Permian, on the supercontinent Pangaea, which was covered by a vast and inhospitable desert. In this arid climate, Early therapsids, which are described as more "mammal-like" than reptile, are shown fighting to survive alongside other animals. The programme starts with an old Scutosaurus, a relative of turtles, being killed by a female Inostrancevia a type of gorgonopsid which later joins others of her kind at a small waterhole. Other inhabitants of the area include Diictodon, a small burrowing dicynodont. In the pool itself is a starving labyrinthodont that ambushes the female gorgonopsid in desperation and quickly retreats. A herd of Scutosaurus arrive and eventually drink the waterhole dry. The female gorgonopsid tries to dig out a pair of Diictodons but is unsuccessful. Upon returning to the waterhole, she unearths the labyrinthodont wrapped in a "cocoon" which it utilized to survive drought. In a torpid state, it is helpless and quickly killed. The gorgonopsid is eventually killed by a sandstorm which is a foreshadowing of the oncoming Permian-Triassic extinction event. The Diictodon meanwhile are able to adapt by digging their burrows deeper, occasionally unearthing plant tubers for sustenance.
Animals: Inostrancevia  · Diictodon  · Rhinesuchus  · Scutosaurus
248 million years ago: Early Triassic, AntarcticaGlobal Temp: 40% hotter than todayHazards: Ambush Predators
Diictodon is seen evolving into the larger Lystrosaurus. The Lystrosaurus multiply into vast herds that must continually migrate in order to find fresh foliage. Also featured is the small insectivorous Euparkeria that is depicted as an ancestor of the dinosaurs. When the Lystrosaurus herd traverses a ravine, one is killed by a pack of venomous Therocephalians, though the herd doesn't show concern for the victim. Encountering a river, the herd enters the water and is attacked by numerous Chasmatosaurs. Many are killed, but the majority escape and continue their migration. The narrator explains that despite the dominance of Lystrosaurus, eventually the world will recover in full from the Permian-Triassic extinction event and other reptiles will overtake them. The mini-episode ends as a Euparkeria is confronted by a chasmatosaur: as the creature rapidly begins to evolve into an Allosaurus and it cuts to the Late Jurassic where it goes near two Stegosaurus, the narrator explains that mammals are destined to be confined to the shadows as a new group of animals becomes the dominant species on Earth. The age of mammal-like reptiles is over. This is the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs.
Animals: Lystrosaurus  · Euparkeria  · Proterosuchus  · Euchambersia  · prehistoric Dragonfly Late Trassic (220 MYA)/Late Jurasic (150 Mya)  · Allosaurus  · Stegosaurus  · Diplodocus (archive footage)  · Anurognathus (archive footage)  · Brachiosaurus (archive footage)  · Apatosaurus
 · Epanterias
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Southern, Nathan (17 January 2006). "Walking with Monsters: Before the Dinosaurs (2005)". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
References[edit]
BBC - Science & Nature - Walking with Monsters gallery
"Before the Dinosaurs - Walking with Monsters at the Internet Movie Database


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Walking with Beasts
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The original DVD cover of Walking with Beasts

Also known as
Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
Genre
Documentary
Created by
Tim Haines
Jasper James
 Andrew Wilks
Developed by
Andrew Wilks
Written by
Kate Bartlett
 Jasper James
 Michael Olmert
 Nigel Paterson
Directed by
Jasper James
 Nigel Paterson
Creative director(s)
Mike Milne
Narrated by
Kenneth Branagh (UK)
Stockard Channing (US)
Composer(s)
Ben Bartlett
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
6
Production

Executive producer(s)
Tim Haines
Producer(s)
Jasper James
 Nigel Paterson
Editor(s)
Greg Smith
 Andrew Wilks
Location(s)
Arizona, Brazil, Ethiopia, Florida, Java, Mexico, South Africa, Yukon
Cinematography
John Howarth
 Michael Pitts
Running time
30 minutes
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Impossible Pictures
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC, Discovery Channel, ProSieben
Original run
15 November 2001 – 21 December 2001
Chronology

Preceded by
Walking with Dinosaurs
Followed by
Walking with Monsters
Related shows
Other shows in the Walking with... series
External links
Website
Production website
Walking with Beasts is a 2001 six-part television documentary miniseries, produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. In North America it has been retitled Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and the original Discovery Channel broadcast was narrated by Stockard Channing. Unlike its predecessor, Walking with Dinosaurs (which deals with Mesozoic life), it recreates life in the Cenozoic by using a combination of both computer-generated imagery and animatronics. However, the Palaeocene and Miocene periods were not included. Also like its predecessor, it was re-edited and re-narrated as a "second season" of Prehistoric Planet for the Discovery Kids lineup. Some of the concepts it illustrates are the evolution of whales, horses, and humans.


Contents  [hide]
1 Companion book
2 List of episodes
3 Awards
4 Trivia
5 References

Companion book[edit]
A companion book was written by Tim Haines to accompany the first screening of the series in 2001. As with Walking with Dinosaurs, the written version of Walking With Beasts elaborated on the background for each story, went further in explaining the science on which much of the program as based, and included descriptions of several animals not identified or featured in the series.
List of episodes[edit]

No.
Title
Time
Director
Original air date

1
"New Dawn" 49 mya Jasper James & Nigel Paterson 15 November 2001
49 million years ago, Early Eocene (Germany)Filming location: Java


Gastornis as it appeared in Walking With Beasts on exhibition in Horniman Museum, London
The first episode depicts the warm tropical world of the early Eocene which was 16 million years after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. Birds, including the giant carnivorous Gastornis, rule this world, while mammals are still very small. The setting is near the Messel pit in Germany. Due to volcanic activity, sudden bulk escapes of carbon dioxide trapped underneath lakes pose a significant hazard to the local wildlife. The episode centers around a Leptictidium family, a leaping, shrew-like mammal, which has emerged in the dawn hours to forage for food. As the mother Leptictidium forages, first in solidarity, and then with her pups, she wanders near a large predatory mammal, identified as an Ambulocetus ("walking whale"). Despite its crocodilian similarity, the Ambulocetus is shown swimming by caudal undulation like a modern cetacean. A female Gastornis, who has been taking care of the single egg in her nest, makes two attempts to hunt a small herd of Propalaeotherium. The first attempt fails when sounds among the vegetation betray her presence. The second attack proves successful when the Propalaeotherium consume fermenting grapes and are unable to evade her attack. The Gastornis also defends her territory from another Gastornis. Unfortunately, while the mother hunts, a horde of Formicium (identified as giant carnivorous ants, and the identified species later renamed to Titanomyrma) encounter the egg when it was just starting to hatch. When the female discovers her dead offspring at dusk she leaves the forest to try and start another family.
With the arrival of night, a band of lemur-like Godinotia, socialize and copulate in the dark. Ambulocetus finally manages to catch a small carnivore near the lake edge. As the night wears on, an earth tremor unleashes trapped carbon dioxide out from underneath the lake and the gas suffocates most of the surrounding life. The Leptictidium survive because the nest was upwind of the gas, and Gastornis also survived because she left that area in the forest.
It is mentioned that although the Leptictidium survived the gas, they would ultimately leave a mystery if that species had a descendant like a shrew or not but most likely they left no descendants, while the Ambulocetus (who was killed by the lethal gases) would evolve into the whales, hereby setting the scene for the next episode.
Animals: Leptictidium  · Gastornis  · Ambulocetus  · Propalaeotherium  · Godinotia  · Eurotamandua  · Titanomyrma  · Creodont  · Gecko  · Kentisuchus (live-acted by a mugger crocodile)  · Frog (live-acted by a White's tree frog)  · Snake (live-acted by a red-tailed green rat snake)
 · Bats (in book only)
2
"Whale Killer" 36 mya Jasper James & Nigel Paterson 22 November 2001
36 million years ago, Late Eocene (Pakistan/Tethys Sea)Filming location: Florida


Andrewsarchus as it appeared in Walking With Beasts
The second episode is set in late Eocene, when the polar caps froze over and drastically changed the Earth's ocean currents and climate. The first part of the episode explains how an early whale, Basilosaurus mates and how the world is changing into an ocean famine. On land there is an Andrewsarchus driven to the beach to feed on sea turtles. The narrator explains that Andrewsarchus, the largest land mammal predator ever to walk the earth, has hooves and is related to sheep, so it is, in a sense, a "sheep in wolf's clothing". Back in the ocean, a starving mother Basilosaurus is forced to hunt in the mangrove swamps of Africa, which will later become the Sahara Desert. Unable to catch a primate called Apidium due to a shark killing one of the primates and spooking the others, she is then hunting a lone Moeritherium. The Moeritherium crawls on to land, but in the mangroves, land does not last long. However the Moeritherium escapes and the Basilosaurus returns to the sea. The cast moves on to land where a herd of Embolotherium (identified as Brontothere) struggle to survive : one of their calves dies after birth and two Andrewsarchus feast on it but the mother Embolotherium drives them away because she has a strong bond with her offspring, even if it is dead. Back in the sea the mother Basilosaurus preys on a group of Dorudon and is successful. The episode ends with the mother Basilosaurus swimming with her newborn calf.
Animals: Basilosaurus  · Andrewsarchus  · Embolotherium  · Dorudon  · Moeritherium  · Apidium  · Physogaleus  · Puppigerus
 · Vulture
3
"Land of Giants" 25 mya Jasper James & Nigel Paterson 29 November 2001
25 million years ago, Late Oligocene (Mongolia)Filming location: Mexico, Arizona


Entelodon as it appeared in Walking With Beasts
The third episode takes place during the late Oligocene, in Mongolia, where there were seasonal rains followed by a long drought. It tells the story of a mother Paraceratherium (identified as Indricothere), a massive hornless rhinoceros that was the largest land mammal to have ever lived. The episode first shows the mother Paraceratherium giving birth, and then tending to the male calf as it matures. A few minutes after giving birth, the mother defends the helpless calf from several Hyaenodon. Also, the mother's old calf tries to come back, but is chased away. It gives a snapshot into the future of the calf. The mother raises her calf for three years, but eventually chases him away after she mates with another male. The episode then chronicles the young Paraceratherium travels until it reaches adulthood, including encounters with the Cynodictis (identified as bear dog), and the large aggressive Entelodon.
Animals: Paraceratherium  · Hyaenodon  · Entelodon  · Chalicotherium
 · Bear dog (Cynodictis[1])
4
"Next of Kin" 3.2 mya Jasper James & Nigel Paterson 6 December 2001
3.2 million years ago, Late Pliocene (Ethiopia)Filming location: South Africa, Ethiopia


Ancylotherium puppet used in the episode
The fourth episode takes place in the Great Rift Valley in northeastern Africa of the late Pliocene. The climate has changed, and now great grasslands have replaced trees. The episode focuses around a tribe of small hominids known as Australopithecus, one of the first apes able to walk upright and a close ancestor to humans. The Australopithecus has evolved to walk upright so as to better maneuver the plains as well as the climb the trees. However, it notes that although the Australopithecus looks human, it still only has the mind the size of a chimpanzee's. Some of the topics explored in the episode are the close social bonds among the tribe, how they use grooming as a means of communication, and how they work together to forage for food and to defend one another from attacks from such animals as an angry male Deinotherium, an ancestor of the modern elephant which they have to run from to avoid being crushed, and the feline predator Dinofelis. It touches upon how competing tribes of Australopithecus war among one another, although most of fighting is for show. It also explains the hierarchy in the tribe among the males (who are much larger than the females) and tells a story of how the dominating male is eventually overcome by another male, who wins the right to feed first at a carrion and to mate with the females. The main story tells of a young Australopithecus nicknamed Blue whose mother has been killed by malaria. He and his tribe are later forced to flee their homeland during a fight over a waterhole with a rival tribe. After a long journey in search of a new home, Blue fits into his tribe by causing them to scare off a hungry Dinofelis.
Animals: Australopithecus  · Dinofelis  · Deinotherium  · Ancylotherium  · Metridiochoerus (live-acted by a warthog)  · Rhinoceros  · Jackal  · Vulture  · Zebra (carcass)
 · Ostrich
5
"Sabre Tooth" 1 mya Jasper James & Nigel Paterson 13 December 2001
1 million years ago, Early Pleistocene (Paraguay)Filming location: Brazil


Phorusrhacos as it appeared in Walking With Beasts
The fifth episode shows the strange fauna of the isolated continent of South America and explores the effects of the Great American Interchange, which had happened 1.5 million years earlier. Since South America had drifted apart from Antarctica 30 million years ago, many unique mammals had evolved, including the Doedicurus, an armored armadillo-like mammal with a cannon ball-sized spiked club on its tail; the Macrauchenia, a camel-like mammal with a long trunk; and the Megatherium, a giant ground sloth. Before the continents of South America and North America collided, a 10-foot-tall predatory terror bird called Phorusrhacos, had reigned as top predator. However, the great cats migrating from the north, soon displaced them as top predators. The episode focuses on a male Smilodon, a sabre-toothed cat, called Half Tooth, whose leadership of a pride is threatened by two males who are brothers and work together against him. The rival males ultimately chase off Half Tooth (actually Half Tooth backs off wisely without any serious injuries, feeling that the two males would be too strong for him), kill his cubs, and take over his pride. Next, the episode shows the Smilodon cats hunting down Macrauchenia and trying to protect the young from the two brothers (in vain). In the background, "terror birds" still hunt, but give way to the Smilodon. However, a Megatherium, who wanted to eat meat as diet supplement, charges the pride of Smilodon, in order to eat some of the carrion. In the process, the Megatherium kills the dominant rival male, enabling Half Tooth to return, kill the other male and reclaim his territory. A year later, his mate had another litter of cubs.
Animals: Smilodon  · Phorusrhacos  · Macrauchenia  · Megatherium
 · Doedicurus
6
"Mammoth Journey" 30,000 ya Jasper James & Nigel Paterson 20 December 2001
30,000 years ago, Late Pleistocene (Belgium)Filming location: Yukon


Woolly Rhinoceros (bg) as it appeared in Walking With Beasts
The sixth episode takes place during the last Ice Age of the late Pleistocene. It starts in the peak of the summer. The North Sea has become a grassy plain because the ice at the polar caps has caused the sea levels to drop significantly. Grazing on the plain are herds of woolly mammoths, saiga antelopes, and bison. A clan of Cro-Magnons (identified as humans) is also there spending the summer. The central focus of the episode is the migration of the herd of mammoths as they travel 400 kilometers from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps for the winter and then back again in the spring. As the mammoth herd migrates south, the episode shows two large deer, the Megaloceros, fighting for rights to a harem of females. As the male Megaloceros fight, a group of humans ambushes them and kills one. A mother mammoth and her baby are separated from the herd, but survive an encounter with a cave lion. When the herd of mammoths reaches the Swiss Alps, the mother and baby mammoth reunite with their herd. The episode also depicts a clan of Neanderthals, who have especially evolved to survive in the cold climate. One is charged by a woolly rhinoceros, but escapes, in part because of his stocky constitution. The climax of the episode is when the clan of Neanderthals attack the herd of mammoth as they turn back to the north. The Neanderthals are gifted hunters who are able to chase two mammoths off a cliff by using fire and spears, one of them being the matriarch of the herd. The episode ends in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History with people looking at various skeletons of some descendants of the animals featured in the series. The camera then pulls back through the roof of the museum until the whole world is visible. The narrator states that, "We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spent decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever."
Animals: Woolly mammoth  · Megaloceros  · Woolly rhinoceros  · Cro-Magnon  · Cave lion  · Neanderthal  · Saiga antelope  · Gray wolf
 · Wisent
Two "Making of" episodes of the show were made-"Triumph of the Beasts" (which focuses on the mammals in the show and how they evolved and lived) and "The Beasts Within" (which focuses on the humans and primates in the show).
Awards[edit]
The series won one Emmy Award, for Outstanding Animated Program.
Trivia[edit]
In one DVD copy of the show, the show's title was changed to Walking With Prehistoric Beasts.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Haines, Tim (2006). The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life. Canada: Firefly Books. p. 176. ISBN 1-55407-125-9.


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Walking with Dinosaurs (film)
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Walking with Dinosaurs
Against a backdrop of mountains and forests, the dinosaur Gorgosaurus threateningly stands behind three dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus with the bird Alexornis atop the lead dinosaur.
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Neil Nightingale
Barry Cook
Produced by
Mike Devlin
 Luke Hetherington
 Amanda Hill
 Deepak Nayar
Written by
John Collee
Starring
John Leguizamo
Justin Long
Tiya Sircar
Skyler Stone
Music by
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Cinematography
John Brooks
Edited by
John Carnochan
 Jeremiah O'Driscoll
Production
   company
BBC Earth
 Evergreen Films
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date(s)
14 December 2013 (Dubai Int'l Film Festival)

Running time
87 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
 United States
 Australia
Language
English
Budget
US$80 million
Box office
US$130.6 million
Walking with Dinosaurs is a 2013 family film about dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous period 70 million years ago. The production features computer-animated dinosaurs in live-action settings with actors John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar, and Skyler Stone providing voiceovers for the main characters. It was directed by Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook from a screenplay by John Collee.
The film was produced by BBC Earth and Evergreen Films and was titled after BBC's 1999 television documentary miniseries of the same name. The film, with a budget of US$80 million, was one of the largest independent productions to date; it was financed by Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global instead of a major studio. The majority of distribution rights were eventually sold to 20th Century Fox. The crew filmed footage on location in the U.S. state of Alaska and in New Zealand, which were chosen for their similarities to the dinosaurs' surroundings millions of years ago. Animal Logic designed computer-animated dinosaurs and added them to the live-action backdrop. Though the film was originally going to have a narrator like in the miniseries, 20th Century Fox executives decided to add voiceovers, believing it would connect audiences to the characters.
Walking with Dinosaurs premiered on 14 December 2013 at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was released in cinemas in 2D and 3D on 20 December 2013. Critics commended the film's visual effects but found its storytelling to be subpar and derided the voiceovers as juvenile. The film grossed US$36.1 million in the United States and Canada and US$94.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of US$125.4 million. The Hollywood Reporter said the film's global box office performance was disappointing in context of the production budget and marketing costs.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Creatures in film
4 Production 4.1 Filming
4.2 Animation
4.3 Music
4.4 Voiceovers
5 Palaeontological accuracy
6 Marketing
7 Release 7.1 Distribution sales
7.2 Theatrical run
7.3 Critical reception
7.4 Home media
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links

Plot[edit]
Paleontologist Zack takes his nephew Ricky and niece Jade on a fossil hunt, giving the sullen Ricky his Gorgosaurus tooth while he and Jade go to the fossil bed. Alone, Ricky is met by a talking rook, who morphs into Alex the Alexornis bird, who takes the story back to the Cretaceous period 70 million years ago. Patchi is the smallest of his litter of Pachyrhinosaurus hatchlings, and is often bullied by his large, proud older brother Scowler. Their father Bulldust is the leader of the herd. Patchi is attacked by a Troodon and receives a distinctive hole in his frill when he ventures outside the nest one morning. Alex, serving as Patchi's mentor, tries to help Patchi impress a female Pachyrhinosaurus named Juniper, but her herd soon migrates south without him. Bulldust soon follows suit, moving his herd to the south, but when they try to pass through a dense forest, they are forced to flee when a forest fire erupts. Taking advantage of the chaos, Gorgon the predatory Gorgosaurus attacks the fleeing Pachyrhinosaurus, and while his pack kills their mother and siblings, Patchi and Scowler witness Gorgon killing Bulldust.
Major, a former rival of Bulldust's, takes command of the herd following the old leader's death, and combines his herd with Juniper's as they continue their migration. Gorgon's pack attacks them once again in a small valley, and in the ensuing panic, Patchi, Scowler and Juniper fall into the river and are swept downstream to the ocean, with Alex following them from above. At the beach, Scowler follows a herd of Edmontosaurus to find food, callously leaving his younger brother and Juniper behind. Patchi and Juniper make their way through a forest and eventually are able to find their herd and Scowler in a feeding ground.
After years of making the same migration from north to south and vice versa, a now adult Scowler becomes the leader of the herd when he defeats Major in a battle of dominance, and then makes Juniper his mate much to Patci's dismay. Scowler recklessly leads the herd onto a thinly frozen pond, and Patchi is able to lead the majority of the herd to safety. Enraged and believing Patchi to be usurping him, Scowler goads Patchi into a battle for leadership of the herd. The larger Scowler quickly wins and disowns him, and orders the herd (including Juniper) to leave him behind. Despondent and heartbroken over the loss of his herd, his brother and Juniper, Patchi is ready to allow predators to eat him until Alex convinces him to die for something worth dying for as his father did. Reinvigorated, Patchi returns to the herd and reunites with Juniper, only to realize that the herd has entered the same valley that the Gorgosaurus had attacked them and notices Gorgon quickly overpowering Scowler in battle. Realizing that he's about to die and presumably repentant for what he had done to his brother, Scowler orders Patchi to save himself and lead the herd to safety, but Patchi instead leads them in driving off Gorgon and his pack for good, saving Scowler and breaking Gorgon's arm with the hole in his frill. Scowler reconciles with Patchi and then concedes leadership of the herd to him, and Patchi goes on to have eggs with Juniper one of which hatches and Alex asks for it to be named after him. In the present day, moved by Alex's story, Ricky returns the Gorgosaurus tooth to his uncle and sister, who have unknowingly discovered Gorgon's skull.
Cast[edit]



 Actor John Leguizamo voiced Alex the Alexornis, who narrates the film
Voiceovers for prehistoric creaturesJohn Leguizamo ... Alex
Justin Long ... Patchi
Tiya Sircar ... Juniper
Skyler Stone ... Scowler
 Modern-day humansKarl Urban ... Uncle Zack
Charlie Rowe ... Ricky
Angourie Rice ... Jade

In the film, the story of the dinosaurs is book-ended by live-action footage. Leguizamo, Long, Sircar, and Stone provide voiceovers for the computer-animated dinosaurs, while the book-end scenes star Urban as an uncle taking his nephew and niece, played by Rowe and Rice, to a dinosaur excavation site.[1] For the role of Alex, Leguizamo said he sought to conceal his own accent and create a unique voice for Alex.[2] He adopted a Spanish accent since parrots had a Latin American origin. He said, "What was most difficult was finding the right pitch, because Alex is a small bird, but he's also the story’s narrator. So he also had to sound paternal and patriarchal."[3] Leguizamo compared his accent to that of Ricardo Montalbán, a Mexican actor.[4] Long said he was cast based on his voicing of the chipmunk Alvin in Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) and its sequels.[5]
Creatures in film[edit]
Alexornis[6]
Alphadon[6]
Chirostenotes[6]
Edmontonia (identified as ankylosaur)[6]
Edmontosaurus[6]
Gorgosaurus[6]
Hesperonychus[6]
Pachyrhinosaurus[6]
Parksosaurus[6]
Quetzalcoatlus (identified as pterosaur)[6]
Troodon[6]
Production[edit]
Walking with Dinosaurs, named after BBC's 1999 television documentary miniseries, was produced by BBC Earth, an arm of BBC Worldwide that was launched in 2009. The feature film is directed by Barry Cook, who was a director for Mulan (1998) and the co-director for Arthur Christmas (2011), and by Neil Nightingale, creative director at BBC Earth.[7] The script was written by John Collee.[8] Nightingale and BBC Earth's managing director Amanda Hill sought to produce film adaptations to extend the arm's brand of nature programming. The two were inspired by returns for Deep Blue (2003) and Earth (2007), which were theatrical versions cut from their respective nature documentary series.[9] In June 2010, BBC Earth entered a deal with Evergreen Films, based in the United States, to produce a film featuring dinosaurs.[10] By the following November, BBC Earth entered a deal with Reliance Big Entertainment to finance the production of three films, including Walking with Dinosaurs. The deal had initially attached Pierre de Lespinois of Evergreen Films and Neil Nightingale to co-direct the film.[11] Barry Cook, who joined the film in March 2010,[12] eventually replaced de Lespinois as director.[7]
The total production budget was $80 million.[13] About 70% of the budget was covered when IM Global, a finance and sales company backed by Reliance, sold film rights to various distributors at the American Film Market in November 2010. The budget was further covered by tax breaks provided for filming in Alaska and in New Zealand. IM Global covered only 15% of the budget directly. Forbes called Walking with Dinosaurs an independent film with an unconventionally large budget since the production did not originate at a major studio.[14] Nightingale explained, "It was originally funded by... Reliance, and then we sold it pretty quickly to 20th Century Fox for most of the world, and to a range of other distributors in a few other countries, and that's not an unusual path for an independent film — in other words, a non-studio film which doesn't originate from a big studio."[15]
Filming[edit]



 The directors filmed footage at the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska to serve as a live-action backdrop for the computer-animated dinosaurs
The film features computer-animated creatures in live-action settings.[9] Live-action footage was filmed in New Zealand and in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. Director Nightingale said, "[They] have that kind of temperate climate which represents the period very well. The world was a bit warmer then, so they would have had 24 hours of sunshine in the summer and 24 hours of darkness in the winter."[16] Filming began in 2011 in Alaska, where Evergreen Films is headquartered.[17] In the second half of 2011, more than 55 people were working out of Evergreen's office in the Alaskan city of Anchorage.[18] While the film's dinosaurs lived in Alaska during the Late Cretaceous period approximately 70 million years ago, they lived more in the northern part of the state due to the climate at the time. Filmmakers considered Southeast Alaska's rainforests below the Arctic Circle close to the climate that the dinosaurs experienced, so they filmed there and in Southcentral Alaska. Specific locations included Crow Creek Mine near Girdwood, Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula.[19] In 2012, the state government of Alaska awarded the production companies a subsidy of US$1.7 million.[20] Additional filming also took place on South Island in New Zealand.[15] For a river chase scene, filming was performed at rapids in New Zealand using a helicopter and with a 3D camera rig in a rubber boat.[16] At the locations, the crew built dinosaur shapes out of PVC drain pipes to give the filmmakers a sense of the dinosaurs' scale when filming the live-action backdrop.[21]
Animation[edit]
Animation work was done by the Australia-based company Animal Logic, which joined the production in January 2011. Its involvement with the production created 140 jobs in New South Wales.[22] The company's animation director for Walking with Dinosaurs was Marco Marenghi, who had also worked on the BBC miniseries.[23] The company collaborated with animation producer Jinko Gotoh, who contributed to Finding Nemo (2003) and 9 (2009).[24]
Character designer David Krentz, who also worked on Disney's Dinosaur (2000), designed about 20 creatures for the film and worked with 5-6 palaeontologists.[12] The characters were based on creatures found at fossil sites in Alaska and in Canada.[25] Krentz initially designed the creatures in pencil then modeled them with the software ZBrush to send to animators.[12] In addition, palaeontologists provided Animal Logic with technical drawings of dinosaur skeletons so animators could construct the skeletons virtually. The animators collaborated with the palaeontologists to validate the basic movements of the computer-animated dinosaurs. Software was used to overlay muscle to fit the movements. Animal Logic adapted the software Quill, which they used to animate penguin feathers in their work on Happy Feet (2006), into new software called RepTile to animate dinosaur skin and scales.[16] It also added feathers for some dinosaurs, including the Troodons and the Hesperonychus. The color palette and feather pattern of a golden pheasant was used for the appearance of the Hesperonychus.[26] The natural history unit archives were used to create a "behaviour matrix" that matched dinosaurs' anatomically correct gestures to their moods.[16] Animal Logic ultimately created 800 animated shots for the film, which director Cook said was a low number for an animated film.[12]
The 3D effects for the animation were achieved with the Fusion 3D system,[24] which was used for Avatar (2009), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and live 3D sports broadcasts.[17] Cinematographer John Brooks worked with consultants and stereographers from the Cameron Pace Group to use a two-camera setup and capture film in 3D.[12]
Music[edit]
Paul Leonard-Morgan composed the film score for Walking with Dinosaurs. He joined the production in July 2013. The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg performed the score at the Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam, Germany, where it was recorded. Engineer Rupert Coulson then mixed the score at AIR Studios in London, England. Leonard-Morgan then went to Los Angeles, California to dub the music for the film.[27] Leonard-Morgan's score was one of 114 original scores from feature films that were determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be eligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards,[28] though it was not nominated.[29]

Additional music

No.
Title
Music
Length

1. "Calling All Hearts"   Sanford Clark  
2. "What A Difference A Day Makes"   Tim Myers  
3. "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby"   Barry White  
4. "Tusk"   Fleetwood Mac  
5. "Ends of the Earth"   Lord Huron  
6. "Live Like A Warrior"   Matisyahu  
Voiceovers[edit]
In the film, actors provide voiceovers for the main creatures. Director Barry Cook said the original plan was for the film to be without dialogue or narration. He said, "I think originally, we were looking at a film that could stand alone as a virtual silent movie... You can turn the soundtrack off and still get involved with the story and feel the emotions of the characters. In its final version, the movie has a narration and goes inside the heads of the animals, so you can hear what they're thinking."[12] Executives at 20th Century Fox, one of the film's main distributors, viewed a rough cut and thought the film needed voiceovers so children in the audience could connect to the characters.[30]
The film's character designer David Krentz said, "Although the production veered away from being very realistic, the animation still plays independently. The powers that be decided to add narration and voice-over to reach a wider audience and the characters became slightly anthropomorphized to make them more attractive to younger kids."[12] Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte responded to The Scotsman's prompt about the "danger of anthropomorphising" the dinosaurs, "The voiceovers are a bit of a compromise; the dinosaurs' lips aren't moving, they are not smiling and having human-like facial expressions or anything like that... They are only anthropomorphised to a small degree and that is necessary for a film like this."[21]
Palaeontological accuracy[edit]
For more details on this topic, see palaeontology.
Variety reported, "[Director] Nightingale describes the project as 'mainstream entertainment' rather than natural history... but draws accurately on the latest discoveries in paleontology."[9] A team of scientific and technical consultants contributed to the film. One team member was Dr. Steve Brusatte of Edinburgh University, who is a Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Brusatte said the filmmakers strove to understand the discoveries about dinosaurs since the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, "They used so much of this information that we've learned over the past few decades, about feathered dinosaurs, about how dinosaurs lived in big herds, which dinosaurs preyed on each other, their environments, and used that to tell the story."[21]

The Gorgosaurus, a bipedal dinosaur depicted with iridescent scales, stands on mostly rocky terrain with deciduous trees behind it.

 The Gorgosaurus is one of the film's main dinosaurs and is depicted with iridescent scales. Its appearance was scrutinized for palaeontological accuracy due to findings that a relative species had feathers.
Some dinosaurs in the film are feathered. Brusatte said, "Over the past 15 years, we have collected thousands of specimens of feathered dinosaurs – proper bona fide dinosaurs covered in feathers." New Scientist reported that "no evidence has yet been found" to suggest that the Pachyrhinosaurus or the Gorgosaurus were feathered.[31] Director Cook said of the Gorgosaurus, "We decided that we wouldn't put feathers on that one, but we did give that dinosaur iridescent scales."[26] National Geographic said, "Many paleontologists and dinosaur fans are disappointed that CGI docudrama's villains, a gaggle of iridescent Gorgosaurus, are devoid of any fluff or fuzz." The Gorgosaurus is a member of the tyrannosauridae family, and the scientific community has debated whether or not feathery skin has been a characteristic in the family. Shortly after the filmmakers designed their Gorgosaurus for the film, the tyrannosauroid Yutyrannus was discovered and had direct evidence of feathers. While the Yutyrannus was 125 million years old compared to the Gorgosaurus being over 75 million years old, insufficient evidence did not rule out the possibility of tyrannosaurids having feathery skin. National Geographic also noted that the Gorgosaurus in the direct-to-video film March of the Dinosaurs (2011) was depicted as feathered.[32]
Palaeontologist Anthony Fiorillo was a consultant for the film and helped determine what dinosaurs lived in Alaska at the time. Fiorillo said "the first known track" of the Therizinosaur in Alaska was discovered in 2012, which was too late to include in the film's lineup of dinosaurs. The palaeontologist said based on ongoing research of the Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, which he discovered in Alaska in 2012, he would have modified his advice to the filmmakers about designing the film's Pachyrhinosaurus.[33]
Don Lessem, a writer who specializes in dinosaurs, said Walking with Dinosaurs was an improvement from Jurassic Park in how the dinosaurs fit the period. He found most of the dinosaurs to be depicted correctly but also highlighted the possibility of the Gorgosaurus having feathers. Lessem stated the Alaskan scenery, while "a spectacular backdrop", did not exist at the time, "Conifers excepted, such scenery did not exist in dinosaur-age Alaska. Think woody outskirts of Seattle instead. Rainy and cool. No grand Rockies. Or much grass. And not much snow or ice."[34]
Marketing[edit]
20th Century Fox marketed Walking with Dinosaurs in the territories where it distributed the film.[14] It also held a launch event at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California.[35] The film is an extension of an existing franchise that started with the BBC miniseries and continued with an arena show that put animatronic dinosaurs on display. Since merchandising deals already existed, filmmakers easily began releasing merchandise for the film. Forbes said, "There is already merchandise (toys, lunch boxes etc.) related to the movie which is normally unheard of for a first film."[14] Macmillan Children's Books (under Macmillan Publishers) acquired the license to publish tie-in books for the film in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. They published in November 2013 an encyclopaedic guide to the film's dinosaurs, a film handbook, and sticker books.[36] Travelgoods.com produced back to school merchandise based on the film, and Keldan International sold a hatching-egg toy for Christmas.[37]
Supermassive Games developed the Wonderbook game Walking with Dinosaurs for the PlayStation 3. The game was released on 13 November 2013.[38]
Release[edit]
Distribution sales[edit]
IM Global, which represented rights to distribute the film, marketed it at the American Film Market in November 2010. In what Variety called one of the "biggest deals in years", 20th Century Fox purchased rights to distribute the film in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Latin America, and other territories. Variety reported, "Insiders say it's safe to say that the pre-sales cover most, if not all, of the film’s budget." For other territories, Constantin Film purchased distribution rights for Germany, Alliance Films for Canada, Aurum for Spain, and Dutch Film Works for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.[39] Entertainment One acquired Alliance and Aurum in January 2013, which rearranged distribution rights.[40]
Theatrical run[edit]
Walking with Dinosaurs premiered on 14 December 2013 at the Dubai International Film Festival.[41][42] Distributor 20th Century Fox also had a special screening for the film in New York City on 15 December 2013.[2] It distributed the film in cinemas in the United States and in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2013.[43] It distributed the film in Australia and New Zealand on 1 January 2014.[37]
Distributor 20th Century Fox focused advertising on young children. It also advertised the film as one for kids like Avatar (2009) was for adults.[44] Prior to the film's release, Forbes stated that in the United States, Walking with Dinosaurs was the only "kid-friendly film" coming out in December 2013.[45] The Wall Street Journal said, "Walking with Dinosaurs... is the only new release targeted at children and is expected to appeal primarily to young ones."[46] Box Office Mojo commented in its December 2013 forecast, "It should do some solid business among families with younger children, though in a highly-competitive season this is the kind of movie that can get lost in the pack."[47] It predicted that Walking with Dinosaurs would gross US$11.8 million over the weekend and rank sixth at the box office.[44] ComingSoon.net predicted that with a crowded weekend of films, Walking with Dinosaurs would gross US$6.8 million over the weekend to rank seventh at the box office.[48] TheWrap says that box office analysts predict a weekend opening "in the low-teen millions".[49]
The film was released in 3,231 cinemas in the United States with 84% of the cinemas having 3D.[50] On the opening weekend in the United States, it grossed US$7.1 million and ranked eighth at the box office.[51] According to the polling firm CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a "B" grade.[52] Distributor 20th Century Fox had anticipated an opening weekend of US$10 million to US$12 million. The Hollywood Reporter said, "Walking with Dinosaurs is the first major disappointment of the Christmas season."[53] It was outperformed by the competing family film Frozen, which ranked third at the box office and had been in theaters for a month.[54] Outside the United States, Walking with Dinosaurs was released in 40 markets the same opening weekend. It grossed US$13.8 million, with US$1.6 million grossed in the United Kingdom.[52]
To date, Walking with Dinosaurs has grossed US$36.1 million in the United States and Canada and US$94.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of US$130.6 million.[55] The Hollywood Reporter said in January 2014 that the film's global box office performance was disappointing and was likely to only go up to US$125 million, meaning "a potential loss in the tens of millions for the financiers". It reported the financiers' response about the anticipated loss, "They contend they will break even because of sponsorships, merchandising, tax breaks and foreign presales in territories where Fox didn't pick up the film." Fox would also avoid a loss since it did not cover any part of the production budget and would get a distribution fee.[30]
Critical reception[edit]
The Wall Street Journal reported that film critics thought that Walking with Dinosaurs's "majestic visuals are seriously undermined by pedestrian storytelling".[56] The Hollywood Reporter said, "Many critics have derided the juvenile tone of the voice dialogue... also noting that the animals' lips don't move."[30] The film review aggregator website Metacritic gave an aggregate score of 37 out of 100, which it said indicated "generally unfavorable" reviews. It surveyed 21 critics and assessed 10 reviews as negative, six as mixed, and five as positive.[57] The similar website Rotten Tomatoes scored the film with 25% based on a survey of 67 reviews assessed as positive or negative. It assessed 50 as negative and 17 as positive. The website said, "Walking with Dinosaurs boasts painstaking visual brilliance, but it's unfortunately clouded by a clumsy script that's dominated by juvenile humor."[58] It also reported, "The pundits say the filmmakers seem to have worried that a quasi-nature documentary approach might have turned off the youngsters, but the narrative is so poorly executed that the end result isn't all that entertaining, much less educational."[59]
Mark Adams of Screen International said Walking with Dinosaurs worked as "a kids' film for young dino fans". Adams commended the 3D special effects as "immersive and impressive" but thought audiences may be frustrated at "its rather simplistic story". He said, "The film's attempt to make its story broad and accessible at times sits uneasily alongside the spectacular computer animation."[1] Michael Rechtshaffen, reviewing for The Hollywood Reporter, also approved of the effects, calling them "first rate". The critic however complained that the added dialogue was "needless" and that it was "safe to assume that the overlay was added after the fact" by studio executives. Rechtshaffen said, "Although the plotting... follows a safely predictable course... It's that forced, unnecessary and largely unfunny dialogue—save for Leguizamo's spirited way with words—that comes up distractingly flat."[60]
Dan Jolin at Empire panned Walking with Dinosaurs as "insipid, bloodless, pseudo-educational and offensively anthropomorphised". Jolin applauded the visual effects but said that "the decision to insert chirp-pop songs and voice the principal dinosaurs" overshadowed the effects.[61] Tom Meek, reviewing for Paste, also praised the effects as "a visual wonderment" but disparaged "the cutesy animal voices and personas". Aside from highlights like the line "Think outside the nest" and the song "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac, Meek was disappointed by the dialogue and choice of music.[62] Brian Switek, reviewing for National Geographic, said the voiceovers ruined the film. He said where films like The Land Before Time and You Are Umasou were children's films with meaningful dialogue, Walking with Dinosaurs instead had dialogue that "is vacuous and not only lacks emotional weight, but actually drains any emotions the audience might feel for the characters". Switek said the film could be salvaged if its release on home media would include an option to watch it without the dialogue.[63]
Home media[edit]
Walking with Dinosaurs was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on 25 March 2014. It ranked third in both Blu-ray sales and combined DVD and Blu-ray sales. It ranked below Frozen, which was in its second week of home media release, and The Wolf of Wall Street, which was also in its first week. Over 35% of sales for Walking with Dinosaurs were from Blu-ray sales.[64] Around 4% of its total sales were Blu-ray discs in 3-D.[65]
The Blu-ray 3D disc for Walking with Dinosaurs features bonus content including a "Cretaceous Cut" of the film that omits the voiceovers.[66]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring dinosaurs
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Further reading[edit]
Brusatte, Steve (2013). Walking with Dinosaurs Encyclopedia. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-06-223278-6.
External links[edit]
Official website
Walking with Dinosaurs at the Internet Movie Database
The Algorithms That Power the Hyper-Real Creatures of Walking With Dinosaurs at Wired
King of the monsters by The Scotsman, a general history of dinosaurs in film


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Walking with Dinosaurs
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Walking with Dinosaurs
Walkingwithdinosdvdcover.jpg
The official DVD cover of Walking with Dinosaurs

Genre
Documentary
Created by
Tim Haines
Directed by
Tim Haines
Jasper James
Creative director(s)
Mike Milne
Narrated by
Kenneth Branagh (BBC Version)
Avery Brooks (Discovery Channel Version)
Composer(s)
Ben Bartlett
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
6 (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
John Lynch
Producer(s)
Tim Haines
 Jasper James
Editor(s)
Andrew Wilks
Location(s)
The Bahamas, California State Parks, Chile, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tasmania
Cinematography
John Howarth
 Michael Pitts
Running time
30 minutes
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Impossible Pictures
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (USA home video, 1999-2000)
Warner Home Video (USA home video, 2000-present)
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC, Discovery Channel, TV Asahi, France 3, ProSieben
Original run
16 April 1999 – 21 May 1999
Chronology

Followed by
Walking with Beasts
Related shows
Other shows in the Walking with... series
External links
Website
Production website
Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries that was produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and first aired in the United Kingdom, in 1999.[1] The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000, with Branagh's voice replaced with that of Avery Brooks. It is the first entry of the Walking with... series and used computer-generated imagery and animatronics to recreate the life of the Mesozoic, showing dinosaurs and their contemporaries in a way that previously had only been seen in feature films. The programme's aim was to simulate the style of a nature documentary and therefore does not include "talking head" interviews. The series used palaeontologists such as Michael Benton, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Peter Dodson, Peter Larson and James Farlow as advisors (their influence in the filming process can be seen in the documentary The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs). The Guinness Book of World Records reported that the series was the most expensive documentary series per minute ever made.[citation needed] A feature film of the same name, inspired by the series was released by 20th Century Fox and BBC Earth in 2013.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Reception
2 Companion book
3 The Arena Spectacular
4 Film adaptation
5 In other media 5.1 Video game
5.2 Apps
5.3 Other merchandise
6 Scientific inaccuracies
7 List of episodes
8 International broadcast
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links

Reception[edit]
In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 1999, voted on by industry professionals, Walking with Dinosaurs was placed 72nd. The series won two BAFTAs (Innovation and Best Original Television Music) and three Emmy Awards: Outstanding Animated Program, Outstanding Special Visual Effects and Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming – Sound Editing. CommonSense Media greatly praised the program, giving it five stars out of five and saying that, "Somebody had a great idea, which was to make a documentary series about dinosaurs, but with a twist. The aging Ornithocheirus on a desperate final flight to his mating grounds, the sauropod hatchlings struggling for survival in the late Jurassic, the migrating herds and the undersea life of 150 million years ago would all seem as real as a nature program about polar bears or snow monkeys."[3] This technique of narrating the prehistoric life as though it were current proved to have a lasting impact,[according to whom?] and has been used several times since, for example in the BBC's 2011 Planet Dinosaur series.
Companion book[edit]
A companion book was written by Tim Haines to accompany the first screening of the series in 1999. The settings of some of the six episodes were changed between the time the book was written and the screening of the television series, and some of their names were changed: 'New Blood' is set at Ghost Ranch; 'Cruel Sea' is set at or near Solnhofen in Germany near what then were the Vindelicisch Islands. The book elaborated on the background for each story, went further in explaining the science on which much of the program is based, and included descriptions of several animals not identified or featured in the series.[4]
The Arena Spectacular[edit]


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Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular is a live adaptation of the series that originated in Australia in January 2007 (as Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience), and toured North America in 2007–10, Europe in 2010, and returned to North America until 2011. It also toured Asia beginning in December 2010. In 2011 the show came to its final destination of its first tour, New Zealand. In 2012, the show toured the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands.[5]
Creatures in the Arena Spectacular:
Liliensternus (not seen in the documentary)
Plateosaurus
Stegosaurus
Allosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Ornithocheirus
Utahraptor
Torosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
Film adaptation[edit]
Main article: Walking with Dinosaurs (film)
Walking with Dinosaurs is a 2013 family film about dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous period 70 million years ago. The production features computer-animated dinosaurs in live-action settings with actors John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar, and Skyler Stone providing voiceovers for the main characters. It was directed by Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook from a screenplay by John Collee.
The film was produced by BBC Earth and Evergreen Films and was named after the BBC miniseries. The film, with a budget of US$80 million, was one of the largest independent productions to date; it was financed by Big Reliance Entertainment and IM Global instead of a major studio. The majority of distribution rights were eventually sold to 20th Century Fox. The crew filmed footage on location in the U.S. state of Alaska and in New Zealand, which were chosen for their similarities to the dinosaurs' surroundings millions of years ago. Animal Logic designed computer-animated dinosaurs and added them to the live-action backdrop. Though the film was originally going to have a narrator like in the miniseries, Fox executives wanted to add voiceovers to connect audiences to the characters.
Walking with Dinosaurs premiered on 14 December 2013 at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was released in cinemas in 2D and 3D on 20 December 2013. Critics commended the film's visual effects but found its storytelling to be subpar and derided the voiceovers as juvenile. The film grossed US$34.4 million in the United States and Canada and US$71.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of US$106 million. The Hollywood Reporter said the film's global box office performance was disappointing in context of the production budget and marketing spend.
In other media[edit]
To capitalize on a resurgence of interest in the brand following the release of the Walking with Dinosaurs feature film, a range of products and services have been designed to bring Walking with Dinosaurs to myriad other forms of media.[6]
Video game[edit]
Main article: Walking with Dinosaurs (video game)
Originally announced in summer 2012, BBC Earth have worked with Supermassive Games to bring the Walking with Dinosaurs experience to the PlayStation 3 using the Wonderbook augmented reality peripheral.
Apps[edit]
Three apps have been created for smartphones and tablets; Walking with Dinosaurs: Photo Adventure for iOS and Android devices, Walking with Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Island for iOS devices, and Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside their World, an interactive encyclopædia of dinosaurs and those who studied them, with narration by Stephen Fry, for the iPad.
Other merchandise[edit]
The revival of the Walking with Dinosaurs brand will also be seen in other areas, including a range of toys and games from Vivid Imaginations, a range of books from Macmillan Publishers, and a set of limited edition stamps from the Royal Mail.
Scientific inaccuracies[edit]
Michael J. Benton, a consultant to the making of the series (and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Bristol University), notes that a group of critics gleefully pointed out that birds and crocodiles, the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs, do not urinate; they shed waste chemicals as more solid uric acid. In the first episode of Walking with Dinosaurs, Postosuchus urinates copiously. However, Benton notes that nobody can prove this was a real mistake: copious urination is the primitive state for tetrapods (seen in fish, amphibians, turtles, and mammals), and perhaps basal archosaurs did the same. He believes many other claims of "errors" identified in the first weeks fizzled out, as the critics had found points about which they disagreed, but they could not prove that their views were correct.[7]
Tropeognathus (called Ornithocheirus at the time) was depicted as far larger than it actually was. In the book based on the series, it was claimed that several large bone fragments from the Santana Formation of Brazil possibly indicate that Tropeognathus may have had a wingspan reaching almost 12 metres and a weight of a hundred kilograms, making it one of the largest known pterosaurs.[8] However, these specimens have not been formally described. The largest definite Tropeognathus specimens known measure 6 metres in wingspan. The specimens which the producers of the program used to justify such a large size estimate are currently undescribed, and are being studied by Dave Martill and David Unwin. Unwin stated that he does not believe this highest estimate is likely, and that the producers likely chose the highest possible estimate because it was more "spectacular."[9] However, no other Early Cretaceous pterosaurs reached its size.
Similarly, Liopleurodon was depicted as being 25m long in the series, whereas the adult size known to have been reached by Liopleurodon is around 7m.[10]
List of episodes[edit]

No.
Title
Time
Director
Original airdate

1
"New Blood"[11] 220 mya Tim Haines & Jasper James 16 April 1999
220 million years ago, Late Triassic (Arizona)Filming location: New Caledonia
The episode follows a family of Thrinaxodons (although some sources say Coelophysis is the main focus) as they try to defend their home and their young from predators especially the dinosaur Coelophysis. A female Coelophysis is shown stalking a herd of dicynodonts called Placerias (a giant synapsid or mammal-like reptile), looking for weak members to prey upon. A male Thrinaxodon is shown downstream, returning to his burrow from the river. The last focus of the episode is a female rauisuchian Postosuchus (one of the largest carnivores alive in the Triassic) who is first shown attacking a Placerias herd and bites one of the members, driving the rest of the herd to retreat and leave the wounded and weakened member of the group to the carnivore. Early pterosaurs called Peteinosaurus are depicted feeding on dragonflies and cooling themselves in what little water is present during the drought. Still searching for food, the Coelophysis are shown discovering the Thrinaxodon burrow (and are initially frightened away by the male when it emerges). Eventually, an inquisitive Thrinaxodon pup follows the father to the entrance and is eaten by the Ceolophysis before he can drive the predators away. At night, the pair of Thrinaxodon are shown eating their remaining young, then moving away, while during the day, the Coelophysis work to expose the nest.
The female Postosuchus is later shown to have been wounded by the Placerias in a previous attack (which left her with a tusk wound on her thigh), and after being unable to successfully hunt another member of the Placerias herd she is beaten out of her territory by a rival male Postosuchus. Wounded, sick and without a territory, the female dies and is eaten by a pack of Coelophysis. As the dry season continues however, food becomes scarce and extreme measures are taken by all animals. The Placerias herd embarks on a trek through parched wasteland in search of water, while the Coelophysis start killing and cannibalising their young. The male Thrinaxodon also resorts to hunting baby Coelophysis during the night. Finally, the wet season comes, and the majority of the Coelophysis have survived (including the female), along with the Thrinaxodon pair, who have a new clutch of eggs. The episode ends with the arrival of a migrating herd of the prosauropod Plateosaurus, foreshadowing the future dominance of the giant sauropods after the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event.
Animals: Coelophysis · Thrinaxodon(identified as Cynodont) · Placerias · Postosuchus · Peteinosaurus · Plateosaurus · Lungfish 
2
"Time of the Titans"[12] 152 mya Tim Haines & Jasper James 23 April 1999
152 million years ago, Late Jurassic (Colorado)Filming location: California State Parks, Chile, Tasmania, New Zealand
This episode follows the life of a young female herbivorous sauropod Diplodocus beginning at the moment when her mother lays a clutch of eggs at the edge of a conifer forest. Months later, some of the eggs hatch and the young sauropods are preyed upon by Ornitholestes. After hatching, the young female and her siblings retreat to the safety of the denser trees. As they grow, they face many dangers, including repeated predation by Ornitholestes and Allosaurus. Even the herbivorous Stegosaurus accidentally kills one of her siblings while swinging its tail. In parallel, adult herds of Diplodocus are depicted as titanic eating machines that use their massive weight to topple trees in order to get at the leaves of cycads in between trunks. The Diplodocus are also shown to host their own small mobile habitats that include damselflies, Anurognathus and dung beetles. Close to adulthood, the creche of five-year old Diplodocus grow to 13 meters and are nearly all killed by a huge forest fire (made worse by a firestorm in the night). In the end only three, then two, survivors including the female make it onto the open plains, where they find a herd and safety. Years later, the protagonist female mates, but not long afterwards is attacked by a bull Allosaurus. She is saved when another Diplodocus strikes the Allosaurus with its tail and she rejoins the herd with deep (yet minor) wounds on her side. In the end it is commented that her kind will only get bigger and that when the sauropods die out, life will never again be this large. In the DVD release, most of the narration from the original broadcast is missing.[citation needed]
Animals: Diplodocus · Allosaurus · Ornitholestes · Stegosaurus · Brachiosaurus · Anurognathus · Dryosaurus · Othnielia · Dung Beetle 
3
"Cruel Sea"[13] 149 mya Tim Haines & Jasper James 30 April 1999



Eustreptospondylus puppet head that was used in Walking with Dinosaurs at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History149 million years ago, Late Jurassic (Oxfordshire)Filming location: The Bahamas, New Caledonia
The episode begins with a Eustreptospondylus being snatched from the shore by the pliosaur Liopleurodon. Meanwhile, the ichthyosaur Ophthalmosaurus live-breeding ceremony is the main event taking place, as hundreds of Ophthalmosaurus arrive from the open ocean to give birth. In the midst of the birthing sharks and other predators, including Liopleurodon, are on the hunt, and when one mother has trouble giving birth, a pair of Hybodus sharks go after her, but are frightened off by a male Liopleurodon, which eats the front half of the Ophthalmosaurus, leaving the tail to sink down and be feasted upon by Hybodus. Meanwhile a Eustreptospondylus swims to an island and discovers a turtle carcass that it must contend for with another Eustreptospondylus. Later during the night, a group of horseshoe crabs gather at the shore to lay their eggs, which attracts a flock of Rhamphorhynchus in the morning to eat the eggs. However several of the pterosaurs are caught and eaten by a Eustreptospondylus. While the Ophthalmosaurus juveniles are growing up, they are still hunted by Hybodus, which in turn, are prey for the Liopleurodon. At one point, while the male Liopleurodon is hunting for prey, he is encountered by a female Liopleurodon. After the male bites one of her flippers, she retires from his territory, followed by several Hybodus catching her trail of blood. A typhoon then strikes the islands, and kills many animals, including several Rhamphorhynchus. The Liopleurodon is washed ashore and lays upon the beach, eventually suffocating under his own weight. The carcass then becomes the banquet of a group of hovering Eustreptospondylus. At the end of the episode, the juvenile Ophthalmosaurus that survived the storm are now large enough to swim off to live and breed in the open sea.
Animals: Ophthalmosaurus · Liopleurodon · Eustreptospondylus · Cryptoclidus · Rhamphorhynchus · Hybodus (identified as shark) · Perisphinctes (identified as ammonite) · Leptolepis · Horseshoe Crab · Squid · Turtle · Jellyfish · Fish · Coral 
4
"Giant of the Skies"[14] 127 mya Tim Haines & Jasper James 7 May 1999



Ornithocheirus puppet head that was used in Walking with Dinosaurs at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History127 million years ago, Early Cretaceous (Brazil, North America, Europe and Cantabria)Filming location: New Zealand, Tasmania
The story begins with a male Tropeognathus (identified simply as Ornithocheirus) dead on a beach. It then goes back six months to Brazil, where the Tropeognathus, resting among a colony of breeding Tapejara flies off for Cantabria where he too must mate. He flies past a migrating column of iguanodonts Dakotadon and a Polacanthus (all herbivorous dinosaurs). He reaches the southern tip of North America, where he is forced to shelter from a storm. To pass the time, he grooms himself, expelling his body of Saurophthirus fleas while his beak's display crest begins to show color changes in readiness for mating. He then sets off across the Atlantic (which was then only 300 kilometers wide) and after a whole day on the wing, reaches the westernmost of the European islands. He does not rest there however, as a pack of Utahraptors are hunting Iguanodon - one attack fails, but another assault succeeds. He flies to the outskirts of a forest to rest, but is driven away by Iberomesornis birds. Flying on, he reaches Cantabria, but due to the delays and his exhaustion he cannot reach the center of the many grounded male Tropeognathus and consequently he does not mate. After days under the sun trying to attract a mate, and worn out by his travels and advanced age, the protagonist Tropeognathus dies from heat exhaustion and starvation as do others who also lost out in the reproductive struggle. Nature however is seldom wasteful, their corpses are yielded as food for young Tropeognathus.
Animals: Tropeognathus (identified as Ornithocheirus) · Utahraptor · Dakotadon (identified as North American Iguanodon)  · Iguanodon · Tapejara  · Polacanthus · Iberomesornis · Plesiopleurodon · Saurophthirus 
5
"Spirits of the Ice Forest"[15] 106 mya Tim Haines & Jasper James 14 May 1999
106 million years ago, Middle Cretaceous (Antarctica/Australia)Filming location: New Zealand
A few hundred kilometres from the South Pole, a clan of herbivorous Leaellynasaura are seen emerging to activity after months of total darkness. Now with the coming of spring, the members of the clan are shown feeding on the fresh plant growth and building nests so they can lay their eggs. A male amphibian Koolasuchus has also woken up from hibernation and heads to a river where he will stay during the summer. Out on the rocky river banks, migrating herds of herbivorous Muttaburrasaurus have arrived to feed on the fresh vegetation and lay their eggs. By summer, many of the Leaellynasaura clan's eggs have been eaten, but those of the matriarch hatch successfully. A male polar allosaur is shown hunting the Leaellynasaura and Muttaburrasaurus. The Leaellynasaura clan continues to prepare for the winter, as well as raising the young that have now grown. When autumn arrives, the Muttaburrasaurus herd begins to head back north, and the Koolasuchus leaves the river to find a pool in the forest to hibernate through the winter. However, during the migration some Muttaburrasaurus become lost in the forest and noise they make in the process of trying to get back to the herd prevents the Leaellynasaura clan's sentry from hearing the polar allosaur approaching. In the confusion, the allosaur manages to catch and kill the matriarch of the Leaellynasaura clan, while only one of the hatchlings survives the year. After the last day passes in a matter of minutes, winter descends and the forest becomes almost completely darkened, requiring image enhancement to the camera to view what wildlife are still active. The Leaellynasaura clan is able to stay active, using their large eyes to help them forage for food. During this time, the clan and other fauna use various methods of dealing with the cold, including suspended animation, hibernation or using group body temperature to maintain heat. Finally, spring returns, and two Leaellynasaura males challenge one another for the right to mate, and after a short confrontation, the clan establishes a dominant pair once again.
In the end it is accepted that the shifting of the continents will soon pull the landmass closer to the South Pole, and that the forests, and all these unique dinosaurs will soon disappear.
Animals: Leaellynasaura · Koolasuchus · Polar allosaur (likely Australovenator) · Muttaburrasaurus · Steropodon[note 1] · Giant Weta · Tuatara · 
6
"Death of a Dynasty"[16] 65.5 mya Tim Haines & Jasper James 21 May 1999



Tyrannosaurus puppet head that was used in Walking with Dinosaurs at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History65.5 million years ago, Late Cretaceous (Montana)Filming location: Chile, New Zealand
This episode starts months before the extinction of the dinosaurs. The last dinosaurs are depicted living under intense environmental stress due to excessive volcanism. Many of the dinosaur and pterosaur species still in existence are the largest and most developed of their respective generas, including Ankylosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. The story focuses on a female Tyrannosaurus who abandons her nest, the eggs rendered infertile due to volcanic poisoning. Her calls for a mate are answered by a smaller male who kills a young Triceratops to appease her. Three days later, after repeated copulation and the Triceratops carcass being stripped, she eventually drives him off. The mother fasts for an extended period as she tends to her nest, dealing with raids by Dromaeosaurus and marsupial Didelphodons. As the female tends to her vigil, herds of the hadrosaur Anatotitan wander from islands of vegetation among fields of volcanic ash, while Torosaurus rut for the right to mate and lose their young to attacking pairs and packs of Dromaeosaurus. Meanwhile, the mother Tyrannosaurus sees only three of her twelve eggs hatch and brings down an Anatotitan to feed herself and her brood. While defending her two surviving offspring several days later, the mother tyrannosaur is fatally injured by an Ankylosaurus who swings its clubbed tail at her right side; the blow cracks her femur and ruptures internal organs. The chicks remain expectantly next to the carcass of their mother the next morning until they, and the rest of the non-avian dinosaurs in this region, are killed when an asteroid slams into the Earth, a catastrophe that triggers the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. A final short sequence shows the African plains on the present-day Earth, dominated by the large African mammals of today, but still populated with numerous forms of dinosaurs: the birds.
Animals: Tyrannosaurus · Anatotitan · Ankylosaurus · Deinosuchus[note 2] · Didelphodon · Dinilysia[note 3] · Dromaeosaurus[note 4] · Quetzalcoatlus · Torosaurus · Triceratops (carcass) · unidentified small ornithopods 
International broadcast[edit]

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Country/Region
Channel
 United Kingdom BBC
 United States Discovery Channel
 Sweden SVT
 Denmark Kanal 5
 Finland YLE TV2
 Japan TV Asahi
 France France 3
 Germany ProSieben
 Italy Rai Gulp
 Australia ABC
 Czech Republic ČT1
 Portugal Sociedade Independente de Comunicação
 South Korea KBS
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Live acted by coati. Identified on the BBC website.
2.Jump up ^ "1 ton crocodile" identified in companion volume and guide.
3.Jump up ^ Snake live acted by boa. Identified in Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence.
4.Jump up ^ Dromaeosaur identified in Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Walking with Dinosaurs The Origins". Retrieved 28 May 2012.
2.Jump up ^ McClintock, Pamela (2 August 2011). "Fox Sets 'Walking With Dinosaurs' for Christmas 2013 Release". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
3.Jump up ^ "Walking with Dinosaurs review". Commonsensemedia.com. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
4.Jump up ^ Martill, Dave; Naish, Darren (2000). Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence. London: BBC Books. ISBN 0-563-53743-4.
5.Jump up ^ Amar Singh. "T-Rex comes to town". The Mail Online. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Apps - BBC Walking with Dinosaurs
7.Jump up ^ "birds and crocodiles, the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs, do not urinate". Benton, M. J. 2001. "The science of 'Walking with Dinosaurs'". Teaching Earth Sciences, 24, 371–400.
8.Jump up ^ Haines, T., 1999, "Walking with Dinosaurs": A Natural History, BBC Books, p. 158
9.Jump up ^ Bredow, H.P. (2000). "Re: WWD non-dino questions." Message to the Dinosaur Mailing List, 18 April 2000. Retrieved 20 January 2011: http://dml.cmnh.org/2000Apr/msg00446.html
10.Jump up ^ Smith, Adam. "Liopleurodon". The Plesiosaur Directory. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
11.Jump up ^ Explore the evidence behind the first episode New Blood on ABC Online.
12.Jump up ^ Explore the evidence behind the second episode Time of the Titans on ABC Online.
13.Jump up ^ Explore the evidence behind the third episode Cruel Sea on ABC Online.
14.Jump up ^ Explore the evidence behind the fourth episode Giant of the Skies on ABC Online.
15.Jump up ^ Explore the evidence behind the fifth episode Spirits of the Ice Forest on ABC Online.
16.Jump up ^ Explore the evidence behind the sixth episode Death of a Dynasty on ABC Online.
External links[edit]
Walking with Dinosaurs at the Internet Movie Database
"Walking With Dinosaurs: The Origins". Retrieved 28 May 2012.
ABC's Walking With Dinosaurs site
BBC Science & Nature – Prehistoric Life
Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular Official Website


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