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Having already watched and enjoyed Walking with Monsters I decided to re-watch this awesome Six part series From the same people. It is once again narrated with great enthusiasm by Kenneth Branagh, and tells the story of how the Dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth for millions of years, evolving from small creatures such as Euparkeria & Coelophysis into huge plant eating reptiles such as Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus and fearsome carnivores like Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus

Episoede 1 New Blood
The first episode looks at the Lumbering herds of ancient reptiles scraping out a living in the parched deserts of the Triassic Era whilst trying to avoid becoming lunch for the Fearsome Predatory Postosuchus. And how a small & agile reptile named Coelophysis would change the face of evolution forever, for it’s ancestors would eventually come to rule the Earth for millions of years, Whilst Burrowing mammal-like reptiles like Dicynodonts stayed relatively small. It also looks at how primitive Winged Pterosaurs first took to the air to feed on insects. and how they too eventually evolved into forms that grew to great size & ruled the air for millions of years

Episode 2 Time of the Titans
The second episode, looks at the struggle which may have faced baby sauropods as they grow up during the Jurassic Era, aswell as the myriad other species of Dinosaurs sharing their world at the time, such as the egg eating Ornitholestes, armour plated Stegosaurus and the vicious Predatory Allosaurs

Episode 3 Cruel sea
Episode three looks at how, due to a rise in sea levels huge inland seas were created during the late Jurassic Era. These were Inhabited by a multitude of marine reptiles such as Long necked Plesiosaurs, Fish like Icthyosaurs and Flying reptiles like Ramphorinchus which preyed on fish. Meanwhile the land was ruled by large Predatory carnivores like Eustreptospondylus who swam from island to island continually searching for food, which with Gigantic marine reptiles like Liopleurodon swimming around was not without its risks.

Episode 4 Giant of the Skies
Episode four looks at the many species of flying Pterosaurs around during the Early Cretaceous era such as the awesome Ornithocheirus whose epic migratory flights took them across oceans, and the bizarre looking Tapejara who nested on cliffs and fed on fish. During its epic flight Ornithocheirus would have encountered large herds of Iguanadon and lumbering polacanthus along the way aswell as Carnivorous Utah Raptors

Episode 5 Spirits of the Ice forest
Back during the Mid Cretaceous Era The South Pole was covered in lush forests and episode five looks at the inhabitants of these areas, such as clans of small agile forest dwelling dinosaurs, Large Amphibious Kulasuchus and migrating herds of large Muttaburrasarus, who were all trying to avoid the attentions of Ferocious Allosaurs who roamed about preying on the unwary.

Episode 6 Death of Dynasty
The final episode is set during the late Cretaceous era when another surge in volcanic activity was gradually suffocating the world and turning it barren. It focuses on the struggle faced by a fearsome female Tyrannosaurus to raise her young in this unforgiving environment, facing hazards such as aggressive armoured Ankylosaurs or Small mammals called Didelphodon who are intent on eating the eggs she has laid, whilst giant pterosaurs called Quetzalcoatlus patrol the skies, and predatory Dromeosaurs feed on any unwary young Duck billed Anatotitans or horned Torosaurs they happened to catch roaming the barren landscape