Paleoworld – Dawn of the Cats

Paleoworld was a documentary television series that was produced for The Learning Channel, and has had a total of 50 episodes. Some consider it to be the largest and most comprehensive paleontology series ever made. The series began in late September 1994 and, after 4 seasons, ended in 1997. Each episode is approximately 24 minutes long.

Through Chris Shaw at the Rancho La Brea tar pits in California we learn all about the greatest saber tooth of all time, Smilodon fatalis.

The main story of the Dawn of the Cats is told by Larry Martin, (taking a break from searching for the remains of a Triassic bird), who treats us to findings on Eusmilus, a smaller ancestor no less vicious. Barbourofelis is also compared.

Most intriguing is Larry’s belief that saber tooths can possibly re-evolve one day as they have many times before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoworld

http://palaeotube.blogspot.com/2011/11/paleoworld-dawn-of-cats.html

 

 

Dinosaur Planet – Alpha’s Egg

Dinosaur Planet is a four-part American nature documentary first aired on Discovery Channel in 2003. It was hosted by Scott Sampson and narrated by Christian Slater.
Dinosaur Planet depicts dinosaurs living in various parts of the world (Asia, North America, South America and Europe) 80 milion years ago, using CGI (just like Discovery Channel’s earlier When Dinosaurs Roamed America and BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs). In actuality, a good part of the dinosaurs were designed by Mark Dubeau, who was the art director and primary creature designer on the aforementioned “When Dinosaurs Roamed America”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Planet_(TV_series)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1775720/

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinosaurplanet/interactive/interactive.html

Monsters We Met – BBC

Monsters We Met is a documentary produced by the BBC and later aired on Animal Planet in 2004 (under the title, Land of Lost Monsters). The show used computer-generated imagery to recreate the life of the giant animals that lived during the last ice age and explains how early humans encountered them. It also features humans as the main reason to the extinction of all great animals. It was narrated by Ian Holm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_We_Met

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/monsterswemet/programmes.shtml

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monsters-We-Met-Documentary-Limited/dp/B000MWG2OO