Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Walking with Monsters distributed in North America as Before the Dinosaurs - Walking with Monsters is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
The other version lacks this scene. User reviews 11 Review. Top review. Visually stunning but shallow docudrama. Interesting docudrama about life on Earth before the dinosaurs. Excellent CGI and scientific information is marred by an overly simplified and sensationalized presentation. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution are condensed into about a half-dozen scenes.
Information about ecology and the food web is ignored in favor of scenes of large carnivores attacking each other. I am curious how they determined the behavior, colouration, and sounds of these creatures. The arthropods are so loud that one would think that prey would be able to hear them coming. I was also not aware that amphibians and reptiles roar like lions.
Corvus-9 Dec 27, FAQ 2. Is the evolutionary lineage depicted in the series correct? What are the unnamed animals called? Details Edit. It as a vast, forgotten saga - an epic war - a war between monsters. Walking with Monsters distributed in North America as Before the Dinosaurs - Walking with Monsters is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
Drawing on the knowledge of over scientists, the series depicts Paleozoic history, from the Cambrian Period million years ago to the Early Triassic Period million years ago , and extinct arthropods , fish , amphibians , synapsids , and reptiles. Uploaded by Crocoshark on December 9, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass.
User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. A lone male Hynerpeton hunting underwater is threatened by predatory fish, at first by a Stethacanthus which is eaten by a two-ton Hyneria that chases the amphibian out of the water.
They are ambushed by the Hyneria, which beaches herself in the process, but then uses her fins to drag herself ashore and grab the fleeing male. Despite his untimely death, the Hynerpeton eggs were successfully fertilized and sink into the water to develop. A sequence depicts them acquiring hard shells as the first reptiles evolve, but as the offspring leave their nest, those still hatching are left at the mercy of a giant spider, foreshadowing the return of the arthropods.
The second episode shows the swampy coal forests of the Carboniferous. It explains that because of a much higher oxygen content in the atmosphere, giant land arthropods evolved, such as a Megarachne spider, Meganeura; a giant dragonfly the size of a eagle and Arthropleura; a giant relative of modern millipedes and centipedes.
A Megarachne hunts down a Petrolacosaurus. She comes back from her hunting expedition only to find her burrow has flooded. Not only that, the Petrolacosaurus she caught is stolen by a Meganeura.
Later she is chased by an Arthropleura, which is later killed in a fight with a Proterogyrinus. The Megarachne finally chases a Petrolacosaurus out of its own burrow and moves in. A storm brews and the narrator explains that its high oxygen content makes the atmosphere very combustible, so lightning is a real danger. The Proterogyrinus are seen leaping out of the water to catch Meganeura, which were driven below the tree canopy by the storm. Later, lightning and a forest fire pour in, devastating the life around.
The episode then moves on to the Early Permian, where the swamp-loving trees of the Carboniferous have been replaced with more advanced conifers that are better adapted to survive in a changing climate. Petrolacosaurus and a few other diapsids have evolved into the sub-group of creatures called pelycosaurs like the Edaphosaurus which are now closely related to mammals.
They live in herds and have outgrown their arthropod contemporaries in size.
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