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HEADS UP! Anyone interested on the UK may like to know that Walking with Monsters is on BBC3 this Saturday 5th at 8:20pm. The full 90 minutes is being shown together.
Walking with Monsters
Sat 5 Nov, 8:20 pm - 9:50 pm 90mins
This is the extraordinary story of evolution as it has never been seen before. From the creation of our earth 4.4 billion years ago, we see life evolving in the oceans, meeting our bizarre earliest ancestors who battle against terrifying three metre long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. We travel with our amphibian ancestors who finally struggle onto land facing monsters more deadly than ever before. We visit the eerie Carboniferous swamps - the insects and arthropods here have taken over and grown into giants, from the Mesothelae, a spider as big as a human head, to three-metre millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry up, the world becomes dominated by the first ever giant reptiles - the huge, sail-backed Edaphosaurus and the vicious super-predator, Dimetrodon. Finally we observe the biggest extinction in Earth's history when a world full of giant sabre tooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanket the land. As the environment recovered populations of one tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short lived because dinosaurs were on the way.