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In a time when monstrous creatures ruled the earth, South America was the land of the giants. Nigel Marven walks among these gigantic creatures, on a quest to witness the largest predator bringing down the largest prey.

Nigel Marven journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia to track the owner of the largest claws of all time, the Therizinosaurus. His adventure yields a series of surprising clues, a nest, footprints, dung, and more.

Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call Big Al.

This scientific detective story traces the evidence for Big Al the allosaur's existence, using clues from climate change studies, forensics, and fossil records to bring him back to life.

Animatronics, computer animation and science re-create the dinosaurs' world.

Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.

Featured species are the opthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.

Featured species are the leaellynasaura and the tyrannosaurus.

America was once home to such fierce predators as the giant short-faced bear and the saber-toothed tiger.

In Australia 65,000 years ago, the first human explorers face a land populated with giant lizards, killer rhino-like creatures and deadly birds.

When the Maori first discovered New Zealand 850 years ago, they discovered a strange landscape, inhabited by the largest bird to ever walk the Earth and the deadliest aerial predator since the time of the dinosaurs. This film tells the story of their endeavours to survive in an alien land.

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.

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.

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 hyaenadon which was the size of a rhino and had jaws that could crush a rock.

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.

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.

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.

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation in the first episode of a series that runs from the creation of the first cities in Mesopotamia some 6,000 years ago, to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Starting in Uruk, the `mother of all cities', in southern Iraq, Richard travels to Syria, Egypt, Anatolia and Greece, tracing the birth and development of techn

Richard looks at the winners and losers of the great Bronze Age collapse, and the new powers that emerged in the harder-edged Age of Iron.

Richard Miles explores the power and the paradox of the `Greek Thing' - a blossoming in art, philosophy and science that went hand-in-hand with political discord, social injustice and endless war. He paints a fascinating picture of the internal and external pressures that fuelled this unique political and social experiment, one that would pioneer many of the political systems that we still live wi

Richard Miles traces the battle-scarred career of Alexander the Great, from Greece through Turkey, Syria and Lebanon to Egypt and ultimately Pakistan, where he discovers fascinating traces of a city in which Greek west and Buddhist east were united in an intriguing new way. However it would be Alexander's successors, the Hellenistic Kings, who had to make sense of the legacy of this charismatic ad

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.

Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. The material benefits of the `good order' delivered by Roman rule provided its citizens and subjects with the security to ask profound questions about the meaning of life, questions that the Roman belief system was ill-equipped to answer. Christianity grew to fill the spiritual vacuum, and the City of Man was eclipsed the City of God.

A dig hopes to excavate the 2000-year-old tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's First Emperor.

Dr Alice Roberts visits the Arabian Desert to find clues as to how a tiny group left the African continent around 70,000 years ago.

Dr Alice Roberts' journey continues into Asia in a quest to find out how early hunter-gatherers survived in the inhospitable Arctic region of Northern Siberia. Alice meets the nomadic Evenki people.

Göbeklitepe ruins discovered in Turkey's history goes back 12,000 years. How and in what way did the descendants of the Neanderthals, the Aztecs of Europe, disappear with the arrival of Homo sapiens?

Dr Alice Roberts looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that humans reached Australia almost before anywhere else.

How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first people through.

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how earthquakes and faults have shaped human history by bringing both life and death.

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how rocks have influenced the architecture of the Mediterranean, from the pyramids of Egypt to the squares of ancient Greece.

Tracing the history of cave paintings.

Dr Iain Stewart examines how the rocks beneath our feet played a crucial role in determining the beliefs of ancient civilisations.

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how ancient civilisations learned to exploit the water around them, from the flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how salt has played a crucial role in the history of the Mediterranean, from the ice ages to the preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt.

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

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.

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.

Part 3/4. David Attenborough uncovers dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert and visits the biggest, most spectacular dinosaur displays in the world.

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.

Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, bio-mechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.

Here, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend.

Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carniverous 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.

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.

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.

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour.

This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet.

A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.

Dr Alice Roberts visits the Arabian Desert to find clues as to how a tiny group left the African continent around 70,000 years ago.

Dr Alice Roberts' journey continues into Asia in a quest to find out how early hunter-gatherers survived in the inhospitable Arctic region of Northern Siberia. Alice meets the nomadic Evenki people.

Göbeklitepe ruins discovered in Turkey's history goes back 12,000 years. How and in what way did the descendants of the Neanderthals, the Aztecs of Europe, disappear with the arrival of Homo sapiens?

Dr Alice Roberts looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that humans reached Australia almost before anywhere else.

How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first people through.