Tom Holland explores how our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs and other giant prehistoric creatures, and how bones and fossils have affected human culture.
Content creator Paleo Analysis explores the Precambrian and the Paleozoic era on his quest to evolve back into a human.
A picture about the fine art of prehistoric times, the remains of which have been found in various places on the European continent.
Gombessa Expedition 1
To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known only as a fossil, a Coelacanth was discovered in South Africa in a fisherman's net. This species bears witness to an evolutionary bifurcation 380 million years ago, and bears the marks of a great event: the day the fish left the ocean for the open air. Does it hold the secret to the transition to walking on land? In 2010, a marine biologist and outstanding diver, Laurent Ballesta, took the first photographs of the Coelacanth in its ecosystem. In April 2013, divers and researchers set down their equipment at the Sodwana base camp in South Africa, in the club founded by Peter Timm (who died in 2014). Six weeks of extreme diving at depths of over 120 meters, in an attempt to film the Coelacanth with a double-headed camera, collect its DNA and tag a subject with a satellite-linked beacon...
After her father dies, Chloe, played by Edith Storey, is left alone in the world. She is discovered and taken home to their cave by brothers Dagban and Eric, who vie for her affection in an allegory about “brain vs. brawn.” When “Dagban threatens to do her bodily harm unless she accedes to his intentions” Eric beats up his brother to protect Chloe, and then subsequently leaves the cave he calls home to avoid further conflict. By this point, he has won Chloe’s affection with his kindness and love, and she decides to follow him and “together they continue their journey, seeking happiness in the land beyond the horizon, which joins earth with heaven.”
Se cumplen cien años del descubrimiento del hombre de Pekín y, para celebrarlo, Jacques Maleterre ("La odisea de las especies") nos sumerge en el corazón de la prehistoria china a través de los últimos descubrimientos científicos. A lo largo de esta serie documental, reconstrucciones dramatizadas (guiadas por expertos paleontólogos y antropólogos) nos muestran cómo eran físicamente los habitantes de ese periodo, cómo era su vida, los rituales y costumbres que seguían y, también, cómo era el entorno de un periodo que engloba alrededor de 800.000 años.
Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Roberts that reveals some of the secrets of one of the most widely known extinct animals ever. Humans have been transfixed by the Wolly Mammoth since the end of the last ice age when there were still herds of them roaming the continents of Asia and Europe. Despite many people knowing about the great Woolly Mammoth until recently very little was known about them despite ancient humans living along side them for so long; few documented accounts exist.
Este documental habla sobre la historia de los entierros paleolíticos para tratar de desafiar nuestras nociones preconcebidas de la prehistoria. ¿Quiénes eran estos individuos enterrados con tales tesoros mundanos? Su gran belleza también plantea numerosas incógnitas: ¿Quiénes eran estos individuos, enterrados con tanto cuidado y adornos? ¿Se trata de chamanes? ¿Caciques? ¿O simplemente eran individuos comunes con un estilo distinto.
After centuries of investigation, the reason dinosaurs vanished remains one of the most perplexing questions in all of science. After all, they dominated the world for over 140 million years. How these strong, adaptable creatures became extinct is a subject that has filled books, magazines, movies and dreams. Many theories have been developed. Beginning in 1980, Nobel-prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez suggested that a massive comet or meteor was to blame. Other scientists pointed to scenarios such as violent volcanic activity, or perhaps a virulent dinosaur disease. Discover the latest theories about what killed the "Terrible Lizards," an event that left the earth ripe for the rise of another amazing species...human beings.
Documental que intenta dar respuesta a la desaparición del neandertal como especie en la tierra.
En todo el mundo, muchas especies de grandes mamíferos, como mamuts, osos de las cavernas y perezosos gigantes, se extinguieron al final de la última Edad de Hielo. ¿Los humanos provocaron una extinción masiva o estos gigantes fueron víctimas del cambio climático?
En las cuevas existen pinturas rupestres y calendarios lunares y restos de cazadores prehistóricos estudiados recientemente. ¿Qué pasaría si el hombre prehistórico fuera lo suficientemente inteligente como para desarrollar un conocimiento científico profundo? Por improbable que parezca, los nuevos datos tienden a demostrar que el hombre prehistórico realmente inventó la astronomía.
Two prehistoric men are trying to survive in a hostile world when they encounter fire. Together, they will have to help each other to overcome the dangers.
A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological research.
The epic story of the life of a volcano, capable of both causing the extinction of all things and helping the evolution of species, over 60 million years.
In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most important Bronze Age burial sites: the tomb of a girl who lived around 1370 BCE. Who was that girl and what was her daily life like?