The documentary How to Grow a Planet episode 1 presents a radical reimagining of Earth’s history, positioning plants not as passive scenery but as the primary architects of our world. While geology, with its volcanoes and colliding continents, has long been credited with shaping our planet, this perspective reveals that the greatest changes were driven by a quieter, greener force.
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Digging for Britain 2025 episode 2: Alice Roberts takes viewers on an enthralling journey across central Britain in the second episode of Digging for Britain 2025, uncovering a treasure trove of archaeological wonders unearthed in 2024. This episode brims with astonishing finds that shed light on life across millennia, offering glimpses into a world both alien and familiar. In a serendipitous moment, a quarryman stumbles upon a set of massive footprints embedded in stone—silent echoes of Jurassic giants that once roamed the earth. These tracks, extraordinary in their preservation, provide a unique opportunity for palaeontologists to reconstruct the movements and behaviors of dinosaurs. Like detectives piecing together a prehistoric mystery, the team delves into these ancient clues, painting a vivid picture of creatures that once thundered across the landscape.
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Explore the depths of prehistoric seas with Sir David Attenborough in this documentary, Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster, and witness the groundbreaking discovery and excavation of a colossal pliosaur skull.
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Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs episode 2: The plot thickens. As the team uncovers the remains of fearsome Jurassic predators, they consider the possibility that the site was a dinosaur hunting ground. This time, the team tries to figure out if the Jurassic’s most vicious predator was involved in the deaths of super-sized beasts, like the iconic Diplodocus, that are buried at the site, helping to reveal why so many dinosaurs came here and what killed them in such great numbers 150 million years ago. Liz Bonnin joins an international team of palaeontologists in the remote
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Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs episode 1: Liz Bonnin joins an international team of palaeontologists in the remote badlands of Wyoming as they investigate a mysterious dinosaur graveyard. Packed with over a dozen skeletons, including predators such as the fearsome Allosaurus and iconic giants like Diplodocus, as well as fossilised plants and footprints, the site is a treasure trove that is helping to change the way we think about the Jurassic – the golden age of dinosaurs. The astonishing evidence also helps the team to answer why so many dinosaurs came here and what killed them in such great numbers
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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon: A remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil – the bones of an ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon – has been discovered on the Jurassic coast of Britain. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature’s story to life. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology and CGI, the team reconstruct the skeleton and create the most detailed animation of an ichthyosaur ever made. Along the way, the team stumble into a 200-million-year-old murder mystery – and only painstaking forensic investigation can unravel the story of this extraordinary creature’s fate. In the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, there are
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Dinosaurs: The Final Day: David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Robert DePalma has made an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard: fossilised creatures, astonishingly well preserved, that could help change our understanding of the last days of the dinosaurs. Alternative stream Evidence from his site records the day when an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest devastated our planet and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Based on brand new evidence, witness the catastrophic events of that day play out minute by minute. Dinosaurs: The Final Day
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