BBC Dinos 24/7 Historian Dr Michael Scott unlocks the secrets of a mysterious tomb containing over 2,000 bodies unearthed within one of the catacombs of Rome. The bodies are found to have been wrapped in elaborate plaster and cloth shrouds, liberally sprinkled with ground up amber. Working with an international team of archaeologists, Scott gathers clues to identify who these men and women were and how they died 2026-10-01 Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art and how it reflected the civilisation's religion, through thirty extraordinary masterpieces. 2026-10-01 Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun. 2026-10-01 Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the subsequent invasions by foreign rulers, from the Nubians and Alexander the Great to the Romans, produced a new hybrid ar 2026-10-01 Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors struggle onto land the monsters they face are even more deadly. 2026-10-01 Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short-lived. 2026-10-01 Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry up, the world becomes dominated by the first ever giant reptiles - the huge, sail-backed Edaphosaurus. 2026-10-01 Are sparrows and blackbirds the direct descendants of a vicious group of dinosaurs including the velociraptor? 2026-10-01 Part 1/4. David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death. 2026-10-01 Part 2/4. Could pterodactyls fly? And why did trilobites have such good eyes? David Attenborough investigates the secret lives of animals from the past, as told in the fossil record. 2026-10-01 Part 3/4. David Attenborough uncovers dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert and visits the biggest, most spectacular dinosaur displays in the world. 2026-10-01 Part 4/4. David Attenborough uncovers bizarre creatures of the earliest seas, tiny horses the size of spaniels and an animal that's half bird and half reptile - the rarest of them all. 2026-10-01 Exploring the idea of human coexistence with dinosaurs. Had the species not disappeared from the face of earth ages ago, keeping them as pets could have been a possibility. 2026-10-01 Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops. 2026-10-01 Here, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend. 2026-10-01 Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land. 2026-10-01 A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf. 2026-10-01 Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons! The only threat to an adult would have been the hyaenodon which was the size of a rhino and had jaws that could crush a rock. 2026-10-01 The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne delnotherium. 2026-10-01 Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats. 2026-10-01 Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting for them on their return journey - Neanderthals. 2026-10-01 Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard. 2026-10-01 Exploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while questioning whether they engaged in a fight against the Argentinosaurus. 2026-10-01 David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth. 2026-10-01 Chris Packham is out to determine whether the Himalayan Yeti and the Sumatran Orang Pendek exist. 2026-10-01 Chris Packham embarks on a mission to investigate the existence of the mythical giant squid. 2026-10-01 Chris Packham searches for clues related to the existence of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. He also visits Australia to learn about a giant lizard called Megalania. 2026-10-01 Chris Packham sets out in search of stories about Bigfoot, a mythical ape-like creature that has been the focus of many fiction novels, movies and documentaries over the years. 2026-10-01 Chris Packham explores the English countryside to learn about mythical big cats such as the Beast of Bodmin and Beast of Exmoor. 2026-10-01 Chris Packham investigates whether the thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, has truly gone extinct. The species lived in Australia and Tasmania. 2026-10-01 A dig hopes to excavate the 2000-year-old tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's First Emperor. 2026-10-02 The lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens. 2026-10-02 Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago. 2026-10-02 Are sparrows and blackbirds the direct descendants of a vicious group of dinosaurs including the velociraptor? 2026-10-02 Journey back 40,000 years and discover the great beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's Ice Age odyssey begins in the land of the Sabre-tooth, North America, a continent that was half-covered by ice, up to two miles thick. Yet, it also boasts the most impressive cast of Ice Age Giants in the world. 2026-10-02 Alice ventures to the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, hit the hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants, a cave bear and a cave lion. Yet Alice discovers that for woolly rhinos and woolly mammoths, the Ice Age created a bounty. 2026-10-02 Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard. 2026-10-02 Exploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while questioning whether they engaged in a fight against the Argentinosaurus. 2026-10-02 The lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens. 2026-10-02 Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago. 2026-10-02 David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth. 2026-10-02 The earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs. 2026-10-02 In 2000, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery, explaining how birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, a deeper investigation put a question mark over everything. 2026-10-02 Journey back 40,000 years and discover the great beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's Ice Age odyssey begins in the land of the Sabre-tooth, North America, a continent that was half-covered by ice, up to two miles thick. Yet, it also boasts the most impressive cast of Ice Age Giants in the world. 2026-10-02 Alice ventures to the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, hit the hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants, a cave bear and a cave lion. Yet Alice discovers that for woolly rhinos and woolly mammoths, the Ice Age created a bounty. 2026-10-02 Even after thousands of years of ice crushing the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the Ice Age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos, sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths finally became extinct. Professor Alice Roberts sets off on her last voyage back to the 2026-10-02 Fossil remains serve as clues in discovering how prehistoric flying creatures lived. 2026-10-02 Steve is going large, as he focuses on the biggest animals to have ever walked the earth. In his dino-den, he starts by meeting the Argentinosaurus, an animal so large that even its poo was deadly. But if you thought that that was the biggest dinosaur ever, then think again. 2026-10-02 The Jurassic was home to the most vicious and violent predators the world has ever seen. To survive, herbivores had to fight back! Steve Backshall goes on a mission to track down the deadliest of all dinosaur defenders. He'll meet the armoured tank that is Nodosaurus, he'll test whether an Iguanodon really has what it takes to beat a T-rex, and thanks to some mega-engineering he'll unleash an Anky 2026-10-02 Steve tries to chomp through a car like a T. rex, wield an axe like an Allosaurus and hitch a ride in Britain's biggest tank to showcase the might of a Spinosaurus. 2026-10-02 Steve gets freaky on a mission to find the weirdest dinosaur ever. He kick-starts with a Gigantoraptor, an 8-metre tall giant that laid the biggest eggs in history. 2026-10-02 Steve discovers just what it takes to be a terror from the skies. He straps himself into one of Britain's fastest wind tunnels where he goes head-to-head against Microraptor. 2026-10-02 Steve travels to new depths as he discovers just what it takes to be an aquatic terror. His quest sees him rocket through water in spectacular style, just like an Ophthalmosaurus. 2026-10-02 Steve's on a mission to find dinosaurs that have something a little special: fearsome killers, with incredible abilities! Get ready for a sensory sensation! His quest sees him race in the dark like a Troodon, track prey from miles away taking tips from the Daspletosaurus, and finally he gets his hands on a real life Caiman to show how their pressure pits are just like that of the Spinosaurus. Stra 2026-10-02 Steve goes on an undercover mission to unearth the sneakiest dinosaurs that were far deadlier than they first appeared. 2026-10-02 Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the most deadly animals to have ever walked the earth: dinosaurs. Steve goes on a mission to uncover what was deadlier than the dinosaurs, from massive monsoons and super-sized sandstorms to ballistic bacteria and gory gas. In an epic finale, Steve ends with a bang as he recreates the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact in an experiment. 2026-10-02 Steve Backshall looks back at the most awesome experiments over the series and chooses his highlights. 2026-10-02 Even after thousands of years of ice crushing the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the Ice Age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos, sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths finally became extinct. Professor Alice Roberts sets off on her last voyage back to the 2026-10-02