This series made the bulk of my childhood... I was completely devastated when the video cassette broke. Probably because it was played so many times. I'd LOVE to see a proper reboot with the new CGI technology and leading research on dinosaurs!
CountTentacula you can appreciate the past while still looking towards the future :). Plus not all dinosaurs had feathers and most that do look awesome.
@The Complaining Channel OK, well, look at numerous fossil evidence of animals that existed before the P-T extinction and observe how they mostly disappear later. The P-T extinction being significant is a well-understood idea, there must be evidence otherwise people are just making up stories.
It is truly amazing to me that we have the capability to "create" these ancient creatures. I do not know how you do it although I think it may be computer generated. However to actually be able to get some idea of what these animals looked like and see how they lived and died is a privilege. Thank you to all the people who were involved in getting this from it's creation to getting this on You Tube.
I used to watch this all the time as a child. This documentary was made with a mixture of CGI and puppetry. It is remarkable that a species could discover and recreate another group of creatures that lived so long ago.
This documentary was released in 1999, and although it was accurate at the time; 19 years can change a lot! Now, much of the "facts" in this show are outdated. As good as it is, it's just simply outdated, so you can't really take it as fact, anymore. Regardless, it's still one of my favorite documentaries, heck, favorite pieces of MEDIA, to date, and I still love it, despite its countless flaws!
Sanhinda Peiris it’s because all the close-up scenes are done with practical effects like puppets or animatronics. All the Walking With documentaries use CGI combined with practical effects
This show was astonishingly innovative for it's time, I don't remember anything touching it in terms of sheer epicness at that time (or since). I'd love to see a new series with updated visual effects, but with all these budget cuts I'd be surprised if the BBC would do it. :(
N8ve Jay actually fun fact the crew had a really hard time finding environment meant where there was no grass because there was no grass in the Mesozoic era
Dinosaurs are actually relatives of crocodiles, and crocodiles are known to produce the actual sounds (and not hissing), and the birds are actually dinosaurs that survived, and they are especially known for producing very different sounds.
And now we know that dicynodonts similar to Placerias survived all the way until the end of the Triassic. In fact, we've recently discovered a close relative in Poland called Lisowicia, which was essentially Placerias but the size of an elephant!
The dinosaurs (and pterosaurs and marine reptiles) were not the only animals that are extinct, it is also extinct about 90% of prehistoric mammals, 95% of prehistoric birds, 40% of reptiles and amphibians, all ammonites and almost the whole group of fish called the Coelacanth except a single surviving genus latimeria.
We need an up to date version. I don't know how that'd come about but consider everything we've learned since 1999, just think how different some of the episodes would be.
I second that. This program is screaming for a proper remake. Its been nearly 20 years and since then computer animation has radically improved and numerous discoveries have been made showing many things in this program were wrong. A remake would be amazing
The placerias would no longer be classed as a reptile, now that cladistics has become the only game in town when it comes to phylogeny. They're synapsids, an ancient clade that included the largest land animals to walk the Earth in the Permian and early Triassic. After that, almost all of them went extinct, save for one humble linage of tiny, arboreal creatures who hid during the day and came skittering out at night, after the dinosaurs went to sleep. That once-humble sort of animal were the mammals.
@Ryan James The T-Rex, like all reptiles, is a diapsid, not a synapsid. And no one ever said being a synapsid makes one a mammal. No one's calling e.g. Dimetredon a mammal.
IM A HUGE FAN The gaming beaver took the inspiration to become a RU-vidr that loves dinosaur related things like Jurassic World , he even uses the music from the series. 😄
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Is there fossil evidence of Coelophysis hunting and killing adult Placerias? Coelophysis was so delicate and small. Without its tail only about the size of a large swan. Doubtful that 18 kg critter could pose much of a threat to something the size of a small rhino.
@Dieter Gaudlitz I'm pretty sure the slow lumbering Placerias weren't nearly as fast, smart, advanced or as coordinated as humans, especially if they were old and sick. We have a dozen examples of packs of predators taking on much larger prey today. This isn't that big of a stretch.
I take in a more parasitic sense. Instead of killing it, the dinosaur simply takes chunks of skin and fat from the creature without directly killing it.
people have to keep in mind that its not practical in a short video to show a true kill which can take hours or days. all kinds of small animals will stick with a prey animal and do quick rips at zones such as the taint. Others follow for days while the animal dies of infection and constant hounding. They can also chase and keep them away from water further weaking them. For dramatics ALL videos will show what we want--a big fast encounter to the death that takes place in a few seconds to see who will be supreme winner. semi truths are in all videos and movies such as every step a t rex makes he is STOMPING AND ROARING..
@JC Mills No predator will kill prey over that long of a time period (no, Komodo dragons don't actually do it either). While many predators will attack and harass prey to wear it down, this is still in an interval of minutes or at most hours rather than days. And even with this sort of attack, animals as small as Coelophysis have no chances of preying on something the size of Placerias. That's like saying foxes can harass rhinos to death.
Never again have I seen a documentary of this quality. Despite many of its findings being a little obsolete, it still has more authenticity than many of post-2000 documentaries. Those aren't even fun to watch, being overly dramatic and with an animation quality that looks like they pre-date this one. It is so unsatisfying!
@@creationistaresmart2393 It is at no point in time mentioned that a dinosaur lived for millions of years. :) They have lived millions of years ago and they had been living for millions of years as a species, before they went extinct.
Dinosaurs are actually relatives of crocodiles, and crocodiles do not have forked tongue (and can produce complex sounds, especially in the breeding season)
I've wondered why people assume dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles are depicted as roaring and grunting like mammals. Most modern reptiles hiss at the most and are largely silent, although a few can growl. Birds chirp, whistle, and clack which is what I personally think some dinosaurs sounded lke as well.
Damn son where'd you find this. Birds didn't descend from dinosaurs because they are dinosaurs dude, I thought everyone knew this by know, its like saying we aren't primates, just descended from them
Damn son where'd you find this. Also note, Crocs and gators aren't related to lizards, like at all, they are more related to dinosaurs if anything(kinda like how Pterosaurs are distantly related to dinosaurs), making crocs the only living relative of birds
FightingMaster911 The idea of dinosaur supremacy in the Triassic is also false. They nerfed Postosuchus to make it look retarded compared to the dinosaurs.
Ignoring the fact said Postosuchus was a nigh unstoppable apex predator until it took a wound from a Placerias, which got infected, and crippled it to death...
