Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 nature documentary series produced by the BBC. It shows how reptiles called dinosaurs lived. The first episode, "New Blood", follows all three creatures: a Coelophysis, a Postosuchus and a male cynodont. The next, "Time of the Titans", shows a Diplodocus growing up and trying to avoid predators such as allosaurs and Ornitholestes. The third, "A Cruel Sea", follows both a Eustrepospondylus and a male Liopleurodon. The fourth, "King of the Skies", follows a male Ornithocheirus migrating to Spain. The fifth, "Spirits of the Frozen Forest", follows a clan of Leaellynasaura trying to avoid a hungry Polar Allosaur. The last one, "Last of the Dino Dynasty", follows a female Tyrannosaurus rex, who has already to mated and needs to take care of her babies in a world that is about to end as the Kt extinction nears by day in an already struggling volcanic world. There is also a 2013 film with the same name, a sequel called "Walking with Beasts" and a prequel called "Walking with Monsters".
Plot
changeThis series shows dinosaurs from various parts of the world inhabiting our own planet.
Episodes
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changeEpisode list | Plot | Time period | Formation |
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New Blood | By a river during the later stage of the Triassic, a female Coelophysis, one of the earliest dinosaurs, hunts down a group of dicynodonts, looking for weak members to prey on. Nearby, in a stream, a male cynodont, a type of therapsid, resides in a burrow with his family. Meanwhile, a female phytosaur, a type of crocodile-like reptile, attacks the dicynodont herd and wounds one member of the herd. | Late Triassic | Arizona |
Time of the Titans | The episode focuses on the life of a female sauropod dinosaur, beginning at the moment when her mother lays a group of eggs in a nearby forest. As the babies inside begin to hatch and grow in a matter of years, they have to watch for predators, such as small coelurosaurs like Ornitholestes, and giant, North American carcharodontosaurids including Allosaurus. | Late Jurassic | Morrison Formation |
Cruel Sea | It's the middle Jurassic, in present day Oxfordshire. A Metricanthosaurus (identified as Eustrepospondylus in the narration) is dragged down under a sea by a Liopleurodon male. Dozens of creatures thrive in the oceans, such as Opthalmosaurus, the shark Hybodus, and the famous plesiosaur Cryptoclidus, who has not appeared in other media. | Middle Jurassic | Oxfordshire |
Giant of the Skies | The episode begins with a dead Ornithocheirus. This pterosaur was originally thought to be a species of Tropeognathus, but now, this may be false. | Early Cretaceous | Europe |
Spirits of the Ice Forest | In prehistoric Australia, dozens of years ago, a family of Leallynasaura emerge during spring and have to compete with prehistoric predators of the past, including Australovenator (wrongly identified as a polar allosaur in the narration). | Early Cretaceous | Australia |
Death of a Dynasty | This last episode focuses on a female Tyrannosaurus rex. The prehistoric world of dinosaurs is violently about to end, and soon after that, at the end of the episode, all the dinosaurs become extinct. | End of the Cretaceous | Hell Creek |