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Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by Kenneth Branagh, showing the life of dinosaurs from their emergence to extinction. The series consists of six episodes, each of which explores the life of dinosaurs during a particular period of time - between 220 million years ago and 65.5 million years ago: 220 million years ago, late Triassic; 152 million years ago, late Jurassic; 149 million years ago, late Jurassic; 127 million years ago, early Cretaceous; 106 million years ago, mid Cretaceous; and 65.5 million years ago, late Cretaceous. The series features 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.

Episode 1 - New Blood




Episode 1 - New Blood
220 million years ago - late Triassic: the dawn of dinosaurs.

Episode 2 - Time of the Titans
152 million years ago - late Jurassic: huge land dinosaurs focusing on the life of a Diplodocus from hatching to sub-adult.

Episode 3 - Cruel Sea
149 million years ago - late Jurassic: marine reptiles focusing on the Ophthalmosaurus breeding ceremony.

Episode 4 - Giant of the Skies
127 million years ago - early Cretaceous: flying reptiles focusing on a journey of a male Ornithocheirus, the largest pterosaur at the time.

Episode 5 - Spirits of the Ice Forest
106 million years ago - mid Cretaceous: dinosaurs living in polar region, focusing on a clan of Leaellynasaura as they struggle to survive in the south polar region.

Episode 6 - Death of a Dynasty
65.5 million years ago - late Cretaceous: the extinction of dinosaurs.


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