Although not perfect in accuracy, it really put the spotlight on the Paleozoic, loved the strange and alien like atmosphere it gave and soundtrack was amazing. Definitely need more Paleozoic documentarys.
One issue I have with WwM is that they portray anomalocaris as armored, inparticular with a pretty goofy metal clang sound effect. They were mostly soft boddied, which is the reason the animal had to be puzzled together.
I remember first watching this documentary as a kid. I spent hours searching for it online. I'm glad 7 year old me got to see a Dimetrodon gore a baby Edaphosaurus. Such educational memories.
If anything the comparison to crocodiles was most likely to do a “Wildebeest river crossing with crocodiles” scene with them. They had to use puppets because animating water, no matter how muddy, is a headache. Another thing about the “walking with” series is how much dander relying on modern animals behaviours for some of the drama in the series like dimetrodon being based more on Komodo dragons with the cannibalism and the hatred of faeces. Also the original paper for the Dimetrodon was actually was actually misinterpreted I was actually meant to be about the fact that the animals ended up having a sails broken and scarred during fights, but by the time it was clarified, there was a massive wave of artwork of a new take on a paleo-staple.
I interpreted the "hate against feces" as a trait shared with us specifically, to point out their relation to us (even if not directly). And apart from maybe Hippos, Dogs and Spenny there aren't alot of mammals who either love interacting with feces or having it as a food source.
I absolutely love Dimetrodon. Such a fascinating creature. I also have a nostalgic connection to it: One of my favorite toys growing up was a Jurassic Park Dimetrodon action figure, which is still proudly on display in my room nearly 30 years later. As much as *Jurassic World: Dominion* got wrong, I actually squealed with glee to see a pack of Dimetrodon make an appearance.
The BBC has spent most of it’s funding on the truth about killer dinosaurs earlier that year, and impossible pictures was about to leave, so they were pressed for time, and short on money.
@@maozilla9149 It's more that they were too far into production to change it. Like, imagine making an animation for a Tyrannosaurus now, and when you were finished drawing it, animating it, editing, and just about to press upload, when a new paper comes out, describing a fossil of Tyrannosaurus that shows clear feather imprints on it's back. Would you just press upload or would you start from scratch?
Actually 1 meter was the largest fossil if I remember correctly, and it was a filter feeder. Anomalocaris is still one of my all time favorite Paleozoic creatures, right up there with Hyneria, mostly because of WWM, and my headcanon is that they could in fact reach man-sized proportions, and we just haven’t found fossils of adults. Speaking of Hyneria, the actual fish was smaller than they said in the show, though not by such a significant margin.
Fun fact: mesothelae actually exists, it’s a suborder of spider, but most are extinct. Also I think they called the big spider mesothelae because during production they found out it was a eurypterid, but it was too far into production to change so they went with mesothelae
Technically no. A suborder is not a species. It's a group of offshoot species branching of of the general order of species. Saying a suborder is a species like saying a shark and a ray are both the same exact thing as a salmon.
I'm assuming you're talking about the Brontoscorpio since the others look like eurypterids. Brontoscorpio was a genus of scorpion and if you look at images of the fossil it is pretty much identical to modern scorpions
Upon further examination and research it seems it is known from only a claw, but I'd assume that they structure of that is similar to other true scorpions of the time
Would scorpion pinchers even function underwater? It would be interesting to see a Brontoscorpio or something that looks like a scorpion bodyplan but the tail is paddled instead and doesn't grow the bulb until scorpions go onto land.
The Permian period is easily my favorite part of this documentary, mainly because it did a great job of portraying the bleakness of the world the animals lived in and foreshadowed the inevitable doom of the Permian extinction. It's also helped a lot by the eerie, haunting music, further driving home how absolutely screwed the animals are. It's really tragic and unsettling, to say the least.
The music that played when the environment fucks shit up for the Gorgonops’s territory throughout the episode was chilling, and I love how it contrasted with the music used for the Diictodon’s shenanigans, because they survived, and evolved to repopulate the empty earth.
That was such an ominous conclusion but also a pretty apt descriptor... That said, there is at least _Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure_ to look forward to before getting to the true dark ages, assuming you're covering it.
This documentary was fantastic. When I saw the giant scorpion "break" the camera lens (yes I know it's fake), I was hooked. That was such a clever touch. I've watched this documentary at least 6 times
I think you should have discussed that the documentary says that Scutosaurus, an Anapsid, is distantly related to turtles. This was based on an idea that turtles are Anapsids, amniotes with zero holes behind their eyes, and this is seen in turtle skulls. However it's now been closely proven, through genetic studies, that Turtles are actually Diapsids, and that they evolved these features independently from Anapsids, meaning that Scutosaurus wasn't related to turtles. Now to be fair, this is not entirely proven since we still don't know a lot about how turtles evolved. Plus their placement in the reptile tree is an absolute taxonomic mess that really deserves its own entire video.
Random thought, since a lot of ancient creatures live in a time with higher oxygen levels. If we were to clone any of them in today’s time would they be able to survive with their same genetics? Or would they suffocate/be stunted in Growth
That only really applies to Carboniferous insects and myriapods. Anything with lungs or gills can already breathe efficiently enough that other factors would curtail their size before oxygen levels become an issue, and in many cases (many dinosaurs and pterosaurs, for example, including giant sauropods) they lived at oxygen levels similar to if not somewhat lower than today. So most of them would be fine, and if anything, many dinosaurs and pterosaurs might actually suffer from there being too MUCH oxygen for them today compared to back then.
@@bkjeong4302even for Carboniferous insects, many of the big ones survived into the early Permian when oxygen levels fell, going extinct due to habitat loss and tetrapod competition.
Really enjoyed this video. I remember watching the whole trillogy (Walking with Monsters, Walking with Dinos and Walking with Beasts, correct me if there are more, cuz I don't remember) when I was a kid, and it's what really got me hooked into this whole "ancient animal" kinda shit. Really glad to see that they were rather accurate to some degree, even though they're very old!
There are Walking With Cavemen, the Big Al spin-off, 2 episodes of Chased by Dinosaurs with Nigel Marvin and Sea Monsters also with Nigel Marvin. That's my complete list.
This was definitely my favorite of the series. It didn't get everything right, and there were some mildly annoying bits when they rushed through too much stuff to fit it all into only a few episodes. But it's the only thing I've found that focuses on the Paleozoic animals, and they've always been my favorites because they're so alien to us, and because they're where everything began. It's great to see a documentary on them, and even a _relatively_ accurate one at that.
Re: function of dimetrodon sails? I think it's important to remember that evolution will usually use one feature for multiple purposes. Are claws for climbing, marking territory, digging, agility, injuring prey, restraining prey, tearing open kills, defense, holding on during mating, or intraspecific conflict? The answer could be any combination in any proportion. So too with sails. If evolution gives them a feature like this for heat management, you can only get what is gonna put on that giant billboard it just gave itself. Probably something to do with reproduction.
I still use the term “mammal-like reptile” and refer to basal synapsids as reptiles. The original use of the term “reptile” was to reference any of the more basal amniotes that were neither mammals nor birds. Granted, the term is paraphyletic that way, but so is “fish,” and nobody is complaining about that. And don’t we already have Sauropsida and Diapsida to define the crown-group reptile clade?
There is not much issue with the term fish, because it was only used in scientific taxonomy for a very brief amount of time. Fish were split pretty early on. Reptile however, is an official scientific term up to today. Also, synapsids were quite different in many respects. Probably if they were living today, most of them would be put under a Looser umbrella that included mammals.
I used to have the discovery channel version on DVD it was called before the dinosaurs and then I didn’t know that there was a BBC version and the BBC version is obviously much better but no matter how in accurate it is I still love the show
You should really really watch Walking with Cavemen. I know it's technically not creature based anymore but personally I feel like it's the best documentary of them information wise. Also the acting of the respective people and cinematography is quite nice
@@guairefernandezamil4084 You’re kidding, right? The first words in the Bible are indicative of creationism. Modern Christians are still salty over Darwin.
12:57 you absolutely should have put this in outdated. Anything that is not settled before production BEGINS or changes after production has started should fall into outdated rather than wrong. If you expect shows to pivot and change over every new development in science few documentaries would ever be finished and those that were would be more expensive then they needed to be.
Out of the Walking With series, Walking with Monsters was my favorite. I watched it numerous times when I was younger, and learning about the creatures that lived before the dinosaurs fascinated me.
9:13 Here's your explanation, wise guy! I paid the suckas off, couldn't have them portraying my cousin Jaekelopterus as the biggest and best instead of me!
The finale to the Walking with Trilogy, man do I remember when this came out. I can still recall watching this live on TV, good times. Personally, not as good as the last two but still a solid documentary and I agree with your grade good sir. Another job well done Red Raptor Writes, keep up your informative content, stay safe and have a great day.
Arthropods definitely benefit from high partial pressure of oxygen but nowhere near to the extent often assumed. Even large modern day insects can comfortably fly at oxygen levels where humans would be dead and birds would drop out of the sky. The coraqllary here is that the insect size limit is somewhat *insensitive* to oxygen concentration. There are other reasons to think this is the case. Many modern insects breath via a complicated mix of ram ventilation, simple gas diffusion, and abdomanal pumping, and more (unlike spiders, which have limited or no active breathing mechanism but also are more reliant on pumping hemolymph around to oxygenate tissues). Additionally, arthropods seem to be perfectly capable of reaching Carboniferous sizes today, given Carboniferous levels of competition from vertabrates. The coconut crab is easily bigger than any Carboniferous insect or arachnid shown and second only to the enormous arthropleura, something that was probably a significantly less active animal than coconut crabs. Oxygen probably played a role in making it so that these animals didn't have to spend as much effort on breathing to sustain their metabolism but even large modern dragonflies can continue to fly at pretty low oxygen levels. We also see fossil evidence of big insects at times when oxygen levels are below or at modern levels, when if the oxygen determinist position were correct, we would see oxygen depletion necessarily lead to mass extinction of every moderately sized insect species. Think about if we approached other questions this way? Why were there really big Saurischian dinosaurs in the mesozoic and really small placental mammals while it's the opposite today? Certainly many environmental factors could account for this but one very important factor is just going to be what group of animals was poised to take given niche. Bugs were there first and had a lot of advantages. That's what let them take control of the Carboniferous so effectively. Not merely the oxygen levels.
I'd rank WWM lower than WWD, the narration was too sensationalistic for my liking especially in the first episode when they pushed the "vertebrates vs. arthropods" angle (I found the show to be less sensationalistic when they dropped the "vertebrates vs. arthropods" angle), Anomalocaris being already known to be not arthropods at the time, the very inaccurate evolution segments, the slapping modern animal behavior on prehistoric life is at its worst in WWM (Dimetrodon=Komodo dragons, really?), amongst others (the only evidence Brontoscorpio was aquatic as depicted in WWM is that it may have been too big to molt on land , ironically). Though in fairness to the Anomalocaris thing, it's because the one shown in the series is based on "Anomalocaris" saron (now known as Houcaris).
A look at the credits of WWM reveals that they did not consult the relevant experts to nearly the same extent as with WWD&B. Not surprising that the science suffered as a result.
@@Ozraptor4 That honestly explains a lot TBH. I remembered for the old BBC websites for WWD and WWB, they had pages dedicated for explaining the science behind the episodes and how they portrayed the creatures. For WWM? None of this at all.
Dinosaur documentaries: *exist and showing the real world of the past and making it accurate as possible* The Jurassic world trilogy and Colin Trevorrow: I'm about to end this whole scientifically Accurate's career
At least in the Jurassic Park franchise there is always the in universe excuse of “well their DNA wasn’t fully there so we added random stuff into the gaps” as to why the Dinosaurs don’t look quite right.
I grew up with this as my intro to Dinosaurs as a whole and I have heavy nostalgia for this series and its my personal favorite even though WWB is more accurate. (also the ending gives me chills lol)
I think that the evolution transition things aren't supposed to be literal, and it just shows that these types of creatures evolved into what they became, if that makes any sense. So I dont think they were saying that some creates directly evolved into this or that.
Please review The Mammoth - Titan of the Ice Age for the list. I only made it about 10 minutes in, because they had what they called saber-toothed tigers hunting mammoths in South Korea. Not only does that mean they had smilodon hunting the completely wrong prey in a place they never lived, the cats shown were very clearly NOT smilodon. They had tails as long as a lion's FFS!
The fact that you skipped cats entirely and went straight to cat girls licking themselves is what just made me subscribe. I feel like it's important to make sure you understand it was specifically that.
You'll eventually review Prehistoric Park, right? It may not be part of the "Trilogy of Life" but some still consider it a spin-off like Sea Monsters, Chased by Dinosaurs & Ballad of Big Al?
Between the Amphibians and Lizards, should be a toad like amphibians where the adults live on land and the babies live in the water to which the Walking With Monsters skipped in away, they went from amphibians to Lizards cutting out the middle man in a manner of speaking.
Perhaps there was a fossil of howelli devour the corpse of a larger predator, and because of their similarities they were mistaken for a mother with its children.
13:20 I recognize that style art? Does anyone know who illustrated that image? It's the same style from a book I had years ago that I forgot the name of.
Although not perfect in accuracy, it really put the spotlight on the Paleozoic, loved the strange and alien like atmosphere it gave and soundtrack was amazing. Definitely need more Paleozoic documentarys.
This motion picture was legit my childhood. Introduced me to prehistoric creatures.
My favorite childhood documentary and still to this day
Hey! Your the guy who made the walking with dinosaur dubs
I love more rock and techno but this hits harder than heavy metal
Postman Postosuchus
One issue I have with WwM is that they portray anomalocaris as armored, inparticular with a pretty goofy metal clang sound effect. They were mostly soft boddied, which is the reason the animal had to be puzzled together.
It is like the sword clashes in the smilodon episode to show how cool it is
I remember first watching this documentary as a kid. I spent hours searching for it online. I'm glad 7 year old me got to see a Dimetrodon gore a baby Edaphosaurus. Such educational memories.
Damn trauma😅😮 literally a traumatic experience
I actually enjoyed those scenes
The "you know how catgirls like to lick themselves?" hit me like a fucking truck
Same, this is the first video I’ve seen from this channel and it totally came out of left field, but I instantly felt a deep connection to this guy.
So you got Isekai'd by Truck-kun, noice
lmao he could have stopped at cats, but of course not lmfao
If anything the comparison to crocodiles was most likely to do a “Wildebeest river crossing with crocodiles” scene with them. They had to use puppets because animating water, no matter how muddy, is a headache.
Another thing about the “walking with” series is how much dander relying on modern animals behaviours for some of the drama in the series like dimetrodon being based more on Komodo dragons with the cannibalism and the hatred of faeces.
Also the original paper for the Dimetrodon was actually was actually misinterpreted I was actually meant to be about the fact that the animals ended up having a sails broken and scarred during fights, but by the time it was clarified, there was a massive wave of artwork of a new take on a paleo-staple.
Wow
I interpreted the "hate against feces" as a trait shared with us specifically, to point out their relation to us (even if not directly). And apart from maybe Hippos, Dogs and Spenny there aren't alot of mammals who either love interacting with feces or having it as a food source.
I absolutely love Dimetrodon. Such a fascinating creature. I also have a nostalgic connection to it:
One of my favorite toys growing up was a Jurassic Park Dimetrodon action figure, which is still proudly on display in my room nearly 30 years later. As much as *Jurassic World: Dominion* got wrong, I actually squealed with glee to see a pack of Dimetrodon make an appearance.
A shame that this third series didn’t get to have 6 full episodes like previously.
The BBC has spent most of it’s funding on the truth about killer dinosaurs earlier that year, and impossible pictures was about to leave, so they were pressed for time, and short on money.
The Spider was the creepiest and I can’t even look at it even though it’s not really a spider anymore but still
you know i wonder why didnt they use Arthrolycosa instead of Mesothelae
@TangleMangle true they didn't even stop to think
My grandma thought the same but when the spider got struck by lightning she laughed
@@maozilla9149 It's more that they were too far into production to change it.
Like, imagine making an animation for a Tyrannosaurus now, and when you were finished drawing it, animating it, editing, and just about to press upload, when a new paper comes out, describing a fossil of Tyrannosaurus that shows clear feather imprints on it's back.
Would you just press upload or would you start from scratch?
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim yeah
15:45 anomalocaris is also double its actual size here, they say it was 2 metres long, when in reality it was only 1 metre.
Even more oversized given that it's based on the Chinese "Anomalocaris" saron (now Houcaris) which is less than a foot long.
@@Ozraptor4 Oh didn't know that thanks for the additional info
Actually 1 meter was the largest fossil if I remember correctly, and it was a filter feeder. Anomalocaris is still one of my all time favorite Paleozoic creatures, right up there with Hyneria, mostly because of WWM, and my headcanon is that they could in fact reach man-sized proportions, and we just haven’t found fossils of adults. Speaking of Hyneria, the actual fish was smaller than they said in the show, though not by such a significant margin.
The only Anomalocarids that are about 200 cms long were fliterfeeders
Aegirocassis (if I’m spelling it correctly) was the largest radiodont. It’s was from the early Ordovician.
Yeah WWM definitely deserve this ranking,cause it's just so great,and reasonable accurate,and this was a great RRW video
Fun fact: mesothelae actually exists, it’s a suborder of spider, but most are extinct. Also I think they called the big spider mesothelae because during production they found out it was a eurypterid, but it was too far into production to change so they went with mesothelae
Technically no. A suborder is not a species. It's a group of offshoot species branching of of the general order of species. Saying a suborder is a species like saying a shark and a ray are both the same exact thing as a salmon.
@@chadgorosaurus4898 ah ok, I’m not too great with stuff like this
@@dineobellator_-yf7ki also it's not a spider
I love how they took "sea scorpion" literally and turned it into a flat-out scorpion that lives in the ocean.
I'm assuming you're talking about the Brontoscorpio since the others look like eurypterids. Brontoscorpio was a genus of scorpion and if you look at images of the fossil it is pretty much identical to modern scorpions
@@mrsnake6562 it is literally a claw
@@Gasmaskmax I mean I haven't seen any fossils of it, but I've seen on Google that brontoscorpio is known from a full body fossil but I could be wrong
Upon further examination and research it seems it is known from only a claw, but I'd assume that they structure of that is similar to other true scorpions of the time
Would scorpion pinchers even function underwater? It would be interesting to see a Brontoscorpio or something that looks like a scorpion bodyplan but the tail is paddled instead and doesn't grow the bulb until scorpions go onto land.
The Permian period is easily my favorite part of this documentary, mainly because it did a great job of portraying the bleakness of the world the animals lived in and foreshadowed the inevitable doom of the Permian extinction. It's also helped a lot by the eerie, haunting music, further driving home how absolutely screwed the animals are. It's really tragic and unsettling, to say the least.
The music that played when the environment fucks shit up for the Gorgonops’s territory throughout the episode was chilling, and I love how it contrasted with the music used for the Diictodon’s shenanigans, because they survived, and evolved to repopulate the empty earth.
That was such an ominous conclusion but also a pretty apt descriptor...
That said, there is at least _Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure_ to look forward to before getting to the true dark ages, assuming you're covering it.
walking with monsters is also one of my favorite shows.
And most of the problem you pointed out, I also noticed
When you mentioned that hairs were found in the poop of gorgonopsids my immediate thought was "Ass hair!"
This documentary was fantastic. When I saw the giant scorpion "break" the camera lens (yes I know it's fake), I was hooked. That was such a clever touch. I've watched this documentary at least 6 times
I love your accuracy reviews, I learn so much! Thanks dude for all the awesome videos.
I think you should have discussed that the documentary says that Scutosaurus, an Anapsid, is distantly related to turtles. This was based on an idea that turtles are Anapsids, amniotes with zero holes behind their eyes, and this is seen in turtle skulls. However it's now been closely proven, through genetic studies, that Turtles are actually Diapsids, and that they evolved these features independently from Anapsids, meaning that Scutosaurus wasn't related to turtles. Now to be fair, this is not entirely proven since we still don't know a lot about how turtles evolved. Plus their placement in the reptile tree is an absolute taxonomic mess that really deserves its own entire video.
You could also call them Proto-Mammals for their reptile like features, but in reality they would give rise to mammalia
Random thought, since a lot of ancient creatures live in a time with higher oxygen levels. If we were to clone any of them in today’s time would they be able to survive with their same genetics? Or would they suffocate/be stunted in Growth
That only really applies to Carboniferous insects and myriapods. Anything with lungs or gills can already breathe efficiently enough that other factors would curtail their size before oxygen levels become an issue, and in many cases (many dinosaurs and pterosaurs, for example, including giant sauropods) they lived at oxygen levels similar to if not somewhat lower than today.
So most of them would be fine, and if anything, many dinosaurs and pterosaurs might actually suffer from there being too MUCH oxygen for them today compared to back then.
@@bkjeong4302 interesting, well thanks. I’ve had that question for a long time with no straight answer.
@@bkjeong4302even for Carboniferous insects, many of the big ones survived into the early Permian when oxygen levels fell, going extinct due to habitat loss and tetrapod competition.
Thank you for talking about this one, this was essentially all I had as a kid, so it's nice to see others talk about it.
Really enjoyed this video. I remember watching the whole trillogy (Walking with Monsters, Walking with Dinos and Walking with Beasts, correct me if there are more, cuz I don't remember) when I was a kid, and it's what really got me hooked into this whole "ancient animal" kinda shit. Really glad to see that they were rather accurate to some degree, even though they're very old!
There are Walking With Cavemen, the Big Al spin-off, 2 episodes of Chased by Dinosaurs with Nigel Marvin and Sea Monsters also with Nigel Marvin. That's my complete list.
@@lekhaclam87 I remember the ones with Nigel Marven, they were good too!
Personal favorite of the walking with series, happy to see how well it hold up, can't wait till you get to prehistoric park.
Dude, your SO underrated!
And your dino docu rank series could be perfect for fact checking when it comes to creating things dino related!
They may need remakes since they themselves can get outdated.
I can’t wait for dinosaur planet that was one of my favorite documentaries growing up in the late 2000’s-early 2010’s
Dinosaur Planet was released in 2093 by discovery channel.
What you mean is Planet Dinosaur, released by the BBC in 2011.
This was definitely my favorite of the series. It didn't get everything right, and there were some mildly annoying bits when they rushed through too much stuff to fit it all into only a few episodes. But it's the only thing I've found that focuses on the Paleozoic animals, and they've always been my favorites because they're so alien to us, and because they're where everything began. It's great to see a documentary on them, and even a _relatively_ accurate one at that.
Re: function of dimetrodon sails?
I think it's important to remember that evolution will usually use one feature for multiple purposes. Are claws for climbing, marking territory, digging, agility, injuring prey, restraining prey, tearing open kills, defense, holding on during mating, or intraspecific conflict? The answer could be any combination in any proportion. So too with sails. If evolution gives them a feature like this for heat management, you can only get what is gonna put on that giant billboard it just gave itself. Probably something to do with reproduction.
I still use the term “mammal-like reptile” and refer to basal synapsids as reptiles. The original use of the term “reptile” was to reference any of the more basal amniotes that were neither mammals nor birds. Granted, the term is paraphyletic that way, but so is “fish,” and nobody is complaining about that. And don’t we already have Sauropsida and Diapsida to define the crown-group reptile clade?
There is not much issue with the term fish, because it was only used in scientific taxonomy for a very brief amount of time. Fish were split pretty early on. Reptile however, is an official scientific term up to today. Also, synapsids were quite different in many respects. Probably if they were living today, most of them would be put under a Looser umbrella that included mammals.
What's your favourite creature in this amazing series? For me, Dimetrodon and Inostrancevia are tied. The way they made them is amazing.
I used to have the discovery channel version on DVD it was called before the dinosaurs and then I didn’t know that there was a BBC version and the BBC version is obviously much better but no matter how in accurate it is I still love the show
You should really really watch Walking with Cavemen. I know it's technically not creature based anymore but personally I feel like it's the best documentary of them information wise. Also the acting of the respective people and cinematography is quite nice
The point is that he's a Christian and presumably doesn't believe humans evolved from apes. That's why he doesn't want to cover it.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 Interesting, thx for the clarification
@@kunibertrandolf1886 I doubt that's the accurate explanation, really.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 most christians believe in evolution though, including that of humans.
@@guairefernandezamil4084
You’re kidding, right?
The first words in the Bible are indicative of creationism. Modern Christians are still salty over Darwin.
12:57 you absolutely should have put this in outdated. Anything that is not settled before production BEGINS or changes after production has started should fall into outdated rather than wrong. If you expect shows to pivot and change over every new development in science few documentaries would ever be finished and those that were would be more expensive then they needed to be.
The Pterygotus, however, should’ve gone into the problems section.
i love that at 2:59 he says cat girls instead of just cat, truly a fellow man of culture.
I was hit by a truck.
This is easily the best of the walking with trilogy
Nice Devil Gundam pfp
Nice! Monsters Resurrected is going to be... fun.
Honestly some of the Dinosaurs in it aren’t bad but the Spinosaurus is simply unforgivable.
@@QuokkaCore Actually the Rugops... is almost as unforgivable.
The Cenozoic episodes were actually good.
Out of the Walking With series, Walking with Monsters was my favorite. I watched it numerous times when I was younger, and learning about the creatures that lived before the dinosaurs fascinated me.
aww no coverage of cavemen, for shame it's actually an under appreciated documentary
It’s a shame that they only showed Homo Rudolphensis once, and it was onscreen for 1 minute as a competitor for Homo Habilis.
He mentioned in his WWB vid that he’s Christian.
He’s thinly veiling his disbelief that humans evolved from apes, is what I’m saying.
@@maxrichards3881 eh I have seen no evidence for this
@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster
He doesn’t cover the accurate designs of the Australopithecus or Neanderthals.
9:13 Here's your explanation, wise guy! I paid the suckas off, couldn't have them portraying my cousin Jaekelopterus as the biggest and best instead of me!
I remember watching this documentary a lot as a kid. I freaking loved it
A fun little detail is how they accurately portray hynerpeton with 7 digits on its limbs but say nothing about it
The finale to the Walking with Trilogy, man do I remember when this came out. I can still recall watching this live on TV, good times. Personally, not as good as the last two but still a solid documentary and I agree with your grade good sir. Another job well done Red Raptor Writes, keep up your informative content, stay safe and have a great day.
Arthropods definitely benefit from high partial pressure of oxygen but nowhere near to the extent often assumed. Even large modern day insects can comfortably fly at oxygen levels where humans would be dead and birds would drop out of the sky. The coraqllary here is that the insect size limit is somewhat *insensitive* to oxygen concentration. There are other reasons to think this is the case. Many modern insects breath via a complicated mix of ram ventilation, simple gas diffusion, and abdomanal pumping, and more (unlike spiders, which have limited or no active breathing mechanism but also are more reliant on pumping hemolymph around to oxygenate tissues).
Additionally, arthropods seem to be perfectly capable of reaching Carboniferous sizes today, given Carboniferous levels of competition from vertabrates. The coconut crab is easily bigger than any Carboniferous insect or arachnid shown and second only to the enormous arthropleura, something that was probably a significantly less active animal than coconut crabs. Oxygen probably played a role in making it so that these animals didn't have to spend as much effort on breathing to sustain their metabolism but even large modern dragonflies can continue to fly at pretty low oxygen levels. We also see fossil evidence of big insects at times when oxygen levels are below or at modern levels, when if the oxygen determinist position were correct, we would see oxygen depletion necessarily lead to mass extinction of every moderately sized insect species.
Think about if we approached other questions this way? Why were there really big Saurischian dinosaurs in the mesozoic and really small placental mammals while it's the opposite today? Certainly many environmental factors could account for this but one very important factor is just going to be what group of animals was poised to take given niche. Bugs were there first and had a lot of advantages. That's what let them take control of the Carboniferous so effectively. Not merely the oxygen levels.
And yet, Meganeura was cannon fodder for Proterogerinis.
I'd rank WWM lower than WWD, the narration was too sensationalistic for my liking especially in the first episode when they pushed the "vertebrates vs. arthropods" angle (I found the show to be less sensationalistic when they dropped the "vertebrates vs. arthropods" angle), Anomalocaris being already known to be not arthropods at the time, the very inaccurate evolution segments, the slapping modern animal behavior on prehistoric life is at its worst in WWM (Dimetrodon=Komodo dragons, really?), amongst others (the only evidence Brontoscorpio was aquatic as depicted in WWM is that it may have been too big to molt on land
, ironically).
Though in fairness to the Anomalocaris thing, it's because the one shown in the series is based on "Anomalocaris" saron (now known as Houcaris).
A look at the credits of WWM reveals that they did not consult the relevant experts to nearly the same extent as with WWD&B. Not surprising that the science suffered as a result.
@@Ozraptor4 That honestly explains a lot TBH. I remembered for the old BBC websites for WWD and WWB, they had pages dedicated for explaining the science behind the episodes and how they portrayed the creatures. For WWM? None of this at all.
I've been waiting for this one
Dinosaur documentaries: *exist and showing the real world of the past and making it accurate as possible*
The Jurassic world trilogy and Colin Trevorrow: I'm about to end this whole scientifically Accurate's career
At least in the Jurassic Park franchise there is always the in universe excuse of “well their DNA wasn’t fully there so we added random stuff into the gaps” as to why the Dinosaurs don’t look quite right.
12:37 I thought the spider was doing something else to the lizard...
The gorgonopsid is one of my fav prehistoric animals. It’s so interesting in appearance
We need planet dinosaur, The world needs it. (Also second)
This will forever be one of my favorite documentaries
I watched this when I was like five and the sea scorpions gave me nightmares for years
I adored this entire trilogy as a kid. I know it’s outdated now, but I’ve been meaning to rewatch just for the cool factor
I loved Planet Dinosaur as a kid, I don’t know what your gonna do with it but I’m excited
The fact I watched this before walking with dinosaurs is nostalgic
paleozoic aka underated
Yes
wait, the big sail lizards aren't lizards but early mammals??? dang the toys had me fooled
This show and Primeval made gorgonopsid a GOAT
REAL Spider-Man movies?
Sam Raimi himself said the MCU films are better and more accurate. Nostalgia isn’t everything.
I'd love to see you do walking with Cavemen, it was honestly cool
This paleozoic documentary was my childhood i watched it when i was six.
Good memorys
Thank you for finally making this here,have a cookie🍪
(Munch)
@Red Raptor Writes hope you enjoyed it!
@@redraptorwrites6778 plot twist:it’s oatmeal raisin
I grew up with this as my intro to Dinosaurs as a whole and I have heavy nostalgia for this series and its my personal favorite even though WWB is more accurate. (also the ending gives me chills lol)
dis is my first documentary yeah
3:38 That Dimetrodon looks so adorable. Tell Me You don't wanna Hug it
Probably my first introduction into the nightmare that is Arthroplura and the model used looked amazing
10:11 the way he says it is so hilarious to me and I don’t know why
I loved watch this when I was young
The past is hard to understand since a lot of the evidence is long gone by this point.
I live about 40 mins away from the museum that has the Megarachne fossil
5:11 That's me! I was younger then, of course, but I'd like to think I still look good!
Interesting review. I also am a fan of this mini-series, but I think it could have been a little bit better at the time.
Loved this documentary as a kid
I think that the evolution transition things aren't supposed to be literal, and it just shows that these types of creatures evolved into what they became, if that makes any sense. So I dont think they were saying that some creates directly evolved into this or that.
for your next Dino Documentaries RANKED Could you do Clash Of The Dinosaurs Please?
I respect your opinion on Walking with Cavemen.
Please review The Mammoth - Titan of the Ice Age for the list. I only made it about 10 minutes in, because they had what they called saber-toothed tigers hunting mammoths in South Korea. Not only does that mean they had smilodon hunting the completely wrong prey in a place they never lived, the cats shown were very clearly NOT smilodon. They had tails as long as a lion's FFS!
As Batman said, "I'll look into it".
@@redraptorwrites6778 Holy sabertooth!
Dinosaur revolution and Monsters Resurrected will be kickers to be sure.
It should've ended with a re mastered version of the opening ceolophisis shot from WWD to wrap it up with a nice bow
Why did Dino docs go downhill from here, what changed?
I think more people should check out 'Sea Rex : a prehistoric adventure'. It's highly underrated I M O
Sea *Monsters*; A Prehistoric Adventure.
It’s damn good.
My favorite show as a kid.
My favourite documentary of all time
This documentary made appreciate the Paleozoic so much more
What is that documentary called where the spino is killing those dinosaurs!?!? I’ve been looking for that for ages. 6:45
12:18 Five year old me when I saw that spider kill the poor lizard
I was pretty bummed to find out Megarachnia wasn't a giant spider.
The fact that you skipped cats entirely and went straight to cat girls licking themselves is what just made me subscribe. I feel like it's important to make sure you understand it was specifically that.
Would one of those "few others that preceeded Haikuicthys" be Pikaia?
You'll eventually review Prehistoric Park, right? It may not be part of the "Trilogy of Life" but some still consider it a spin-off like Sea Monsters, Chased by Dinosaurs & Ballad of Big Al?
He did it right after this one.
@@maxrichards3881 I know
I remember when i watched this as little.
I was hoping for 6 episodes, but I think it was really hard to get 30 minute episodes in the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian
Between the Amphibians and Lizards, should be a toad like amphibians where the adults live on land and the babies live in the water to which the Walking With Monsters skipped in away, they went from amphibians to Lizards cutting out the middle man in a manner of speaking.
Infamous truly needs a remaster and you should review 'Walking With Cave Men'
9:51
Interesting shaped water hole. 😏
Perhaps there was a fossil of howelli devour the corpse of a larger predator, and because of their similarities they were mistaken for a mother with its children.
13:20 I recognize that style art? Does anyone know who illustrated that image? It's the same style from a book I had years ago that I forgot the name of.
actually i loved this one way more than the other two . At one point you get tired of always seeing dinosaurs documenteries
Can’t wait for you to do March of the dinosaurs with scar the edmontosaurus and patch the “troodon
If stem mammals didn't evolve from ancient reptiles, then what did they evolve from?
Ambhibians.
@@maxrichards3881 No they did evolve from reptiles and are still, cladistically speaking, reptiles
@@adraen5942
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropsida
6 million years apart.
Something we don’t have a common name for. They were basal amniotes.
you know i wonder why didnt they use Arthrolycosa instead of Mesothelae