"May the valkyries welcome you, and lead you through Odin's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla, and know you have taken your rightful place at the table of the heavens. For a great lineage has fallen, of warriors, of foragers, of giants, of friends" - Walking With Dinosaurs fans after the impact yet again, inevitably, hits, and only the birds remain once more.
In regards to Brachiosaurus being weighed in at 70 tons and being "the largest animals to ever live" when this show was released on the Discovery Channel on the 16th of April 2000, Brachiosaurus was stated to weigh in at 50 tons and (alongside Diplodocus) will give rise to even larger sauropods like the Titanosaurs.
yeah, as paleontologists gathered more data and refined their techniques for estimating mass, often using computer models or comparing limb structures to modern animals so estimates began to increase
@@AncientWildTV Personally, I think it's also a case that Avery Brooks (the narrator for the Discovery Channel version of this show) talked in a "more educational" manner. Not that I dislike Kenneth Branagh's narration, I think that the narrative of the episodes are at times quite vague compared to what was done for the Discovery Channel version.
@@AncientWildTV That is true but having watched both versions I'd say the BBC version is more focused on the story first and education second, while the Discovery Channel version is more focused on education first and story second.
It's fascinating to see how paleontological progress is reflected in depictions of dinosaurs. In about two decades, we'll likely be discussing the potential inaccuracies of Prehistoric Planet, just as we do with Walking with Dinosaurs.
Most likely but I bet we will not talking of Prehistoric Planet with the fondness we do about Walking with Dinos. It's just the superior show in all ways.
Next to Jurassic Park, Walking with Dinosaurs is the most important piece of paleo media, it helped usher in a golden age of paleo docs & shows from 1999 to 2011, spearheaded by Impossible Pictures & Framestore with the Walking with Dinosaurs, Beasts & Monsters, the spin-offs Chased by Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters as well as Prehistoric Park & Primeval (aka my Childhood) Sure this era fizzled out by the end & we ended up in the Dark Age of Jurassic World, but WWD is still the gold standard for paleo docs & it’s influence is still being seen to this day.
@@yrooxrksvi7142it is so bad that it is mine and my husband’s favorite movie to watch ironically, laughing at the sheer stupidity. “So bad it’s good” territory
Regarding the lack of sauropod eggs in the Morrison Formation, it could also be that unlike titanosaurs, Morrison sauropods such as _Diplodocus_ laid soft-shelled eggs instead of the hard-shelled ones that are aeen in titanosaurs, especially giving hard-shelled eggs evolved independently in Dinosauria.
Not particularly likely, first in that shelled sauropod eggs are well known, and secondly that football-sized (the European type of football, not the smaller American one) would burst without some short of shell.
@@p.bckman2997 Hard-shelled sauropod eggs are presently only known from titanosaurs, and there's a large-sized soft-shell egg measuring over 11 in (27.9 cm) long and 7 in (17.8 cm) wide found in Antarctica (it was attributed to belonging to a mosasaur at publication, but with the discovery that soft-shelled eggs are an ancestral trait to dinosaurs there's now at least equal likelihood (if not more) that it's in fact a dinosaur egg that got washed out to the sea.
@@juanyusee8197 , I guess sit depends on what you mean by "hard". Eggs of Massopsondylus (a proto-sauropod) had eggs with shells, that cracked during fossilization (i.e. not leathery). I've even held a crocodile egg, and it did have a shell (a thin one, granted, but no thinner that the eggs of many non-domestic birds).
In my opinion this series has one of the most poetic depictions of the K-Pg mass extinction event. Seeing it initially from the perspective of the North American dinosaurs and later on narrating that “this is the end of the age of dinosaurs” or something like that not only emphasizes the title of the last episode “Death of a Dynasty” but also puts a fitting end bracket to the story of the dinosaurs we’ve been following since the first episode. I say bracket because at the very end of the episode it shows how birds are the one group of dinosaurs that survived to the modern day. Kinda like a bitter sweet ending. While a large majority of them died out, their story still continues to this day.
They did not make a prop for the dying horseshoe crab. As someone who’s got a viral video about them, I promise you it’s not hard to find flipped over horseshoe crabs on a beach
If you set Giant of the Skies 112 million years ago, you can have Tropeognathus and Tapejara in the right time. Deinonychus can replace Eutahraptor, Tenontosaurus replaces Iguanodon, and Sauropelta replaces Polacanthus, and set the hunt in North America.
As someone from Utah, the fact that a U.K. production randomly had a Utahraptor as one of the main characters in an episode, totally MADE my DAY. XD Fun fact, at a natural history museum near me, they have a full Utahraptor skeleton...DELIBERATELY placed in such a way that as you go up the stairs, for a second it totally looks like it's about to pounce on you. Source: I legit got spooked by it for a moment when going up the stairs for the first time. :P
A wonderful labour of love if ever I saw one. Your reviews keep getting better and better and this is no exception. Your channel too continues to be a valuable insight and wealth of knowledge on the world of palaeontology and more people should recognise it. This definitely celebrates the 25th Anniversary way better than the BBC ever would nowadays.
This is probably the very first time I have ever seen someone translate "raptor" as "seizer". It IS technically accurate but most times it is translated as "thief" or "plunderer".
Correction, ornitholestes derives its name from the fact that it was originally speculated to be a bird hunting specialist, hunting early birds due to its pouncing legs and intreating wrist shape.
Okay, this is urking me, but their's a reason certain dinos Don't have full feathering is because animating that shit in 1999 was *Actual hell...* for the animators. They didn't have the tech for that detail in Y2K.
Hope you do this for the beasts series also! I found these series so utterly captivating when i was a child, both scientifically and narratively that they occupied so much memory from my childhood brain. So when i re-found them maybe 8 years later, i was convinced each series would have 12 episodes.
Do it! Throw in "Walking with Monsters" as well (the Permian era stuff is kind of my fave, with prehistoric creatures) and I will not only be there, but be there with bells on! :) Well, actually I'd show up either way. :P
Hodge, I want to say that I'm really glad to see you improving on previous videos and adding the details I've come to love from your more recent videos into them. I hope you keep up the good work! I can't say this enough, but you've come a long way from where you were as a UA-camr 5 years ago and I'm very proud of what you've done in that time. I can't wait to see what else you do.
Excellent video. I now have even more respect for this groundbreaking documentary, and the massive amount of research that goes into your videos. Just one tip, look up the proper usage of "as such"
i'm late to the party because i wanted to set aside some time to really focus on and enjoy this video but please know i was SO SO excited to see you uploading another coverage of Walking With Dinosaurs. similarly, i have a great deal of nostalgia for the original and it's SO cool to be able to compare it with what we know now!
This video is exceptional and your narrating style is very enjoyable. I can't believe I just watched (quietly nodding along and agreeing) a 2hr review of a 25 year old documentary. It really is peerless and we are both lucky to have grown up in England when it was released
i usually put on your videos when im going to sleep or when im at work, not because theyre boring or anything but its a great way to wind down and relax. ive watched your prehistoric planet and when dinosaurs roamed america videos countless times, this will surely be added to the list
NO WAY!! I literally used to watch this and walking with monsters all the time when it was on netflix when I was younger, havent heard of it nor seen it since until now
I just rewatched it last night, it's worth pointing out how cutting edge it seemed at the time, serving as a general update, which has now been itself updated. This is a good thing.
I unfortunately didn't catch it properly at the time (except for seeing part of the episode with the sad, old pterodactyl who couldn't find a mate, on the Discovery channel one day) but I caught it for the first time (on UA-cam--it probably isn't there anymore) only several years ago, and I gotta say: It still holds up pretty well! Non-feathered dinosaurs or no, Walking with Dinosaurs and its sister serieses, Walking with Monsters, Beasts, and Cavemen, are still pretty gripping stuff. I am NOT gonna forget the story of that poor mama Dimetrodon who starved herself to keep her eggs safe through a drought, anytime soon, for example. Or the Tyrannosaurus "chicks" freaking out at a newcomer reptile--a snake! :)
And now the 2025 anniversary sequel of WWD is under filming. Can't wait and super excited. Their promise is episodes like The Ballad of Big Al and hopefully it won't be like the 2013 WWD 3D movie.
Regarding Time of the Titans, I always have found the design of Diplodocus a bit "ugly" (for lack of a better word), their heads look a bit skull-like and the neck thing always bugged me. New Blood has remained my favourite episode with Cruel sea runner up, however the intro of Giant of the skies and the same scene at the end with the haunting music always gives me goosebumps, still 25 years later. Also just love the coastal scenes with Tapejara and the waves crashing
Fantastic video mate, really loved it I was so saddened to hear about the passing of Mike and Jez though, such talented individuals who were so instrumental in creating these shows we all love so much
Forgot to mention: The (archived) WWD website confirmed that the _Diplodocus_ in the programme are "Seismosaurus" aka. _Diplodocus hallorum_ , not _D. carnegii_. Tried to post link but UA-cam deleted my comment so I'm posting the quote instead: "If there's one thing that characterises the dinosaurs of the Jurassic period it's their size. This was when land animals were at their biggest ever, and the huge vegetarian sauropods were the biggest of them all. There are a variety of species of sauropods and the one that we looked at in this programme is Diplodocus (an animal well represented in the Morrison). However, the actual sizes of our Diplodocus are based on an animal presently known as Seismosaurus (meaning 'earth-shaker') - there are some though who claim that the skeleton of Seismosaurus is just a big Diplodocus. So, following the advice of our scientific consultants, we have used the name Diplodocus. Palaeontology is a constantly moving science and one of the symptoms of that is that names can come and go."
So glad to see the WWD review(s) get a remaster and glad to hear you're doing better then you were back then Gonna make some popcorn, watch this and then go back to counting down the days till prehistoric parks 20th anniversary ❤🦕🦖
Walking With Dinosaurs was a favourite of mine as a kid, and it still is. I'm surprised the tape didnt get worn out from how much I watched it over the years lol
For "Death of a Dynasty", they could have also included Palaeosaniwa, the largest terrestrial lizard in the Mesozoic Era. It lived with T-Rex, Torosaurus, Edmontosaurus and Didelphodon in Hell Creek Montana. Perhaps a scene showing it hunting Didelphodon or raiding dinosaur nests alongside them would have been nice to see.
@JackWithAburger It was discovered in the 1903 and later named in 1928. It's poorly known with only a few fossil vertebrae and a jawbone fragment with teeth found in Alberta, Canada. If you look it up, there are many depictions of it resembling a monitor lizard or gila monster and is also now believed to be venomous.
@JackWithAburger It was discovered in 1903 and later named in 1928. Only a few fossil vertebrae and a jaw bone with teeth have been found in Alberta, Canada. It's said to measure 7 ft long and weigh 13 lbs. A lot of depictions show it looking similar to a monitor lizard or gila monster.
as a 7 year old kid this show was everything to me. i didn't realize how revolutionary it was and seeing dinos with feathers change my whole perspective since they mention they are related to birds. such a good doc!
Happy 25th anniversary Waling with dinosaurs. Can’t wait for walking with dinosaurs 2, I hope they’ll bring the Spinosaurus into the series. Can you do a review video of Planet Dinosaur 2013
The best way to make "Death of a Dynasty" work would be to have Hell Creek just having survived a wildfire, due to a drought caused by volcanic ashes, possibly.
The effort of revisiting this series, which was several years in the making, is admirable to say the least, and you did a great job at updating your own info, so congrats! There are some possible, very arguable corrections to make in regards to production, though, as the website for WWD mentions the north american Iguanodon is based on "Iguanodon ottingeri", a now dubious species hailing from the Cedar Mountain formation, ironically making it even more plausible to show it alongside Utahraptor and Gastonia. As for Steropodon, the website also doesn't mention it by name at all, and it seems to imply it's just meant to be a generic mammal. In addition, the small pterosaur from Giant of the Skies is actually a different model from the later Azhdarcho, and there is a render for it, though it looks kinda crappy, with a rather tiny head. There is some speculation that it's meant to be Ornithostoma, which lived alongside Ornithocheirus and was at the time thought to be a pteranodontid, but no confirmation of that identity exists, and the render just says "pterosaur", so it might be a false lead.
Using the tail as a broad clubbing device on a much smaller predator feels like a reasonable defense. The sonic whip however would be rather extreme as an attack.
Taylor Sheridan casting himself as a self-insert badass who looks awesome, rides horses better than everyone else, wagers millions of dollars, talks like a badass, has the coolest luxury truck money can buy, and inserts his real life ranch as the "place where REAL cowboys are made" is very telling as to who he is in real life
I showed this show to my cousin last year. The one about marine reptiles. I still got jumpscared at the beginning. It didn't even forget that part. Although she didn't seem scared, even though she's a kid and has never seen it, so maybe I'm just a wuss.
I gotta say when it comes to graphics, animation, presentation, narration of a dino-docu exists this documentary and arguably 3 years later "When Dinosaurs Roamed America", then its about 20 years of nothing, then "Prehistoric Planet". Like nothing could beat those 2 documentaries for 2 bloody decades in terms of overall quality and presentation.
I wish the aetosaurs had been better-known when the series was in production, it would've been amazing to see animals like Typothorax (which I believe is known from Chinle) in New Blood.
@@azaanimations319 I think so? The species of Typothorax that lived during the Norian would've been slightly larger than Desmatosuchus when fully grown though
Thank you for this video, pleasure to watch. The final episode may be grim but I love the 'teasers' for the world to come, in the mammal cameos here. I never considered the tiny dead mammal to be purgatorius but if it is, that's also an ironic intro to the Holocene millions of years away.
1:28:32 To be fair, megaraptoran affinities aside, given how small the Leallynasaura are, it's probably not unfeasible for a megaraptoran, like Australovenator, to be able to capture them using solely its mouth.
The best thing of Walking with Dinosaurs is The Eerie and unsettling World vibe. It transports you to a strange and unifamiliar primal World with mythical sounds and epic soundtrack equals tô Symphony If The planets... The dated features only makes It better because its more eerie, creepy and unknown as Dinosaur should always bê in docs and movies... Hard to beat this one ..
Best dinosaur documentaries still I will always live and die for this documentary matter fact, my babysitter actually recorded it on VHS on the discovery channel version at the time before I saw the BBC version without her I’ve probably wouldn’t got into walking with dinosaurs unfortunately, she passed away rip nanna
I can't wait for a Walking with Beasts video in the style of this one somewhere in the future, that one (or Chased by Sea Monsters, it's really interchangeable for me) is my absolute favorite Walking With entry
Still waiting for your Walking with Monsters reviews. Are we ever going to see your thoughts on the current final of the Walking with Series? Or is that expected in 2025 closer to the new Walking with Dinosaurs?
An alternative formation that I propose setting the episode "A Cruel Sea" in would be the Charmouth Mudstone formation. It would be a great opportunity to feature giant ichthyosaurs (Temnodontosaurus) as well as several of the most iconic marine reptiles (Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus). Perhaps the episode could also briefly touch on the evolution of armored dinosaurs, since Scelidosaurus also comes from that formation.
Such a brilliant series. I absolutely loved watching it as a kid and still do. One thing i love about it is that there is a good balance of practical effects and cgi which makes it look much more real compared to today's movies that just use cgi for everything. I'm excited for wwd 2!
The Spirit of the Ice forest is my favorite and I gotta say I don't think you can get rid of koolasuchus without severely hurting the episode. It's a relic of a time before dinosaurs
Thank you for all of the "Walking With" videos. I really enjoy them and am about to start on your playlist of the beast ones. Just wondering did you ever watch the "Walking With Monsters"? The 3rd series about the prehistoric life before the dinosaurs?
Even with the dated cgi and even with all the inaccuracies Walking with Dinosaurs will forever be one of the greatest documentaries ever created. As a man of faith I believe the magic of this show will travel through the universe for all eternity
Nice. Two weeks after I sent in my paper on Walking with dinosaurs, with all the research and source management, you step around with a video, where all the informations come together. 🙄 Damn. All the work could have been so easy...
I'm immensely butthurt, living in a constant state of deep, dark depression due to the fact that the only copies of this amazing show widely available are approximately nine pixels resolution
Impossible Pictures! They did the creature effects and CGI for the TV show Primeval too. Those two guys are basically responsible for the coolest shows of my childhood lol
What's funny is that in the Discovery Channel version they call the polar ''allosaur'' carnosaur Which I don't know why they did that and also they went back and said called it Australia
Interestingly enough, when I last looked up Allosauroidea on Wikipedia (not always a reliable source but hey at least it doesn't always skimp out on details when it IS updated) the Megaraptorans were recently considered as the last of the Carnosauria group of Theropods after the Allosauroids became extinct.
Dr. Jim Kirtland, who found the animal, he said that North America and Scandinavia were both connected to each other, so Utah raptor would’ve migrated to Scandinavia without getting his feet wet but yeah, that’s not really the case
“You’re as beautiful as the day I lost you.”
-Walking With Dinosaurs fans while rewatching the series for its 25th anniversary
"May the valkyries welcome you, and lead you through Odin's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla, and know you have taken your rightful place at the table of the heavens. For a great lineage has fallen, of warriors, of foragers, of giants, of friends"
- Walking With Dinosaurs fans after the impact yet again, inevitably, hits, and only the birds remain once more.
In regards to Brachiosaurus being weighed in at 70 tons and being "the largest animals to ever live" when this show was released on the Discovery Channel on the 16th of April 2000, Brachiosaurus was stated to weigh in at 50 tons and (alongside Diplodocus) will give rise to even larger sauropods like the Titanosaurs.
yeah, as paleontologists gathered more data and refined their techniques for estimating mass, often using computer models or comparing limb structures to modern animals so estimates began to increase
@@AncientWildTV Personally, I think it's also a case that Avery Brooks (the narrator for the Discovery Channel version of this show) talked in a "more educational" manner. Not that I dislike Kenneth Branagh's narration, I think that the narrative of the episodes are at times quite vague compared to what was done for the Discovery Channel version.
@@kylecollier7569 its like a different approach of storytelling so some of the ep is vague
@@AncientWildTV That is true but having watched both versions I'd say the BBC version is more focused on the story first and education second, while the Discovery Channel version is more focused on education first and story second.
Who are you, the Google Kid...
Peak has turned 25 years old. Happy birthday Walking With Dinosaurs.
It's fascinating to see how paleontological progress is reflected in depictions of dinosaurs. In about two decades, we'll likely be discussing the potential inaccuracies of Prehistoric Planet, just as we do with Walking with Dinosaurs.
Those queztacoatals will always be horrifying tho lol
T-rex will look like a zebra
So we should! Its important we get it right!
Most likely but I bet we will not talking of Prehistoric Planet with the fondness we do about Walking with Dinos. It's just the superior show in all ways.
Next to Jurassic Park, Walking with Dinosaurs is the most important piece of paleo media, it helped usher in a golden age of paleo docs & shows from 1999 to 2011, spearheaded by Impossible Pictures & Framestore with the Walking with Dinosaurs, Beasts & Monsters, the spin-offs Chased by Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters as well as Prehistoric Park & Primeval (aka my Childhood)
Sure this era fizzled out by the end & we ended up in the Dark Age of Jurassic World, but WWD is still the gold standard for paleo docs & it’s influence is still being seen to this day.
That's harsh. First jurassic world was great
@@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704 And the second one!
@@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704It was a mid nostalgia repackage
@@T-ZillaYTLMFAO No, Fallen Kingdom was horrible
@@yrooxrksvi7142it is so bad that it is mine and my husband’s favorite movie to watch ironically, laughing at the sheer stupidity. “So bad it’s good” territory
How wonderful of you to prepare this for the anniversary! Thank you hodge ^^
Regarding the lack of sauropod eggs in the Morrison Formation, it could also be that unlike titanosaurs, Morrison sauropods such as _Diplodocus_ laid soft-shelled eggs instead of the hard-shelled ones that are aeen in titanosaurs, especially giving hard-shelled eggs evolved independently in Dinosauria.
I had never thought about that!
Not particularly likely, first in that shelled sauropod eggs are well known, and secondly that football-sized (the European type of football, not the smaller American one) would burst without some short of shell.
@@p.bckman2997 Hard-shelled sauropod eggs are presently only known from titanosaurs, and there's a large-sized soft-shell egg measuring over 11 in (27.9 cm) long and 7 in (17.8 cm) wide found in Antarctica (it was attributed to belonging to a mosasaur at publication, but with the discovery that soft-shelled eggs are an ancestral trait to dinosaurs there's now at least equal likelihood (if not more) that it's in fact a dinosaur egg that got washed out to the sea.
@@juanyusee8197 , I guess sit depends on what you mean by "hard". Eggs of Massopsondylus (a proto-sauropod) had eggs with shells, that cracked during fossilization (i.e. not leathery). I've even held a crocodile egg, and it did have a shell (a thin one, granted, but no thinner that the eggs of many non-domestic birds).
In my opinion this series has one of the most poetic depictions of the K-Pg mass extinction event. Seeing it initially from the perspective of the North American dinosaurs and later on narrating that “this is the end of the age of dinosaurs” or something like that not only emphasizes the title of the last episode “Death of a Dynasty” but also puts a fitting end bracket to the story of the dinosaurs we’ve been following since the first episode. I say bracket because at the very end of the episode it shows how birds are the one group of dinosaurs that survived to the modern day. Kinda like a bitter sweet ending. While a large majority of them died out, their story still continues to this day.
While dinosaurs ruled the earth, their descendants rule the air
They did not make a prop for the dying horseshoe crab. As someone who’s got a viral video about them, I promise you it’s not hard to find flipped over horseshoe crabs on a beach
If you set Giant of the Skies 112 million years ago, you can have Tropeognathus and Tapejara in the right time.
Deinonychus can replace Eutahraptor, Tenontosaurus replaces Iguanodon, and Sauropelta replaces Polacanthus, and set the hunt in North America.
That's also a good alternative setting I hadn't considered!
Eutahraptor?
@@daliborjovanovic510 Europe+Utahraptor
As someone from Utah, the fact that a U.K. production randomly had a Utahraptor as one of the main characters in an episode, totally MADE my DAY. XD
Fun fact, at a natural history museum near me, they have a full Utahraptor skeleton...DELIBERATELY placed in such a way that as you go up the stairs, for a second it totally looks like it's about to pounce on you. Source: I legit got spooked by it for a moment when going up the stairs for the first time. :P
A wonderful labour of love if ever I saw one. Your reviews keep getting better and better and this is no exception. Your channel too continues to be a valuable insight and wealth of knowledge on the world of palaeontology and more people should recognise it. This definitely celebrates the 25th Anniversary way better than the BBC ever would nowadays.
This is probably the very first time I have ever seen someone translate "raptor" as "seizer". It IS technically accurate but most times it is translated as "thief" or "plunderer".
Correction, ornitholestes derives its name from the fact that it was originally speculated to be a bird hunting specialist, hunting early birds due to its pouncing legs and intreating wrist shape.
Been waiting 25 years for this review. ❤
Honestly this is the best review of WWD I’ve ever seen
Okay, this is urking me, but their's a reason certain dinos Don't have full feathering is because animating that shit in 1999 was *Actual hell...* for the animators.
They didn't have the tech for that detail in Y2K.
Hope you do this for the beasts series also! I found these series so utterly captivating when i was a child, both scientifically and narratively that they occupied so much memory from my childhood brain. So when i re-found them maybe 8 years later, i was convinced each series would have 12 episodes.
Do it! Throw in "Walking with Monsters" as well (the Permian era stuff is kind of my fave, with prehistoric creatures) and I will not only be there, but be there with bells on! :)
Well, actually I'd show up either way. :P
Hodge, I want to say that I'm really glad to see you improving on previous videos and adding the details I've come to love from your more recent videos into them. I hope you keep up the good work! I can't say this enough, but you've come a long way from where you were as a UA-camr 5 years ago and I'm very proud of what you've done in that time. I can't wait to see what else you do.
Excellent video. I now have even more respect for this groundbreaking documentary, and the massive amount of research that goes into your videos. Just one tip, look up the proper usage of "as such"
i'm late to the party because i wanted to set aside some time to really focus on and enjoy this video but please know i was SO SO excited to see you uploading another coverage of Walking With Dinosaurs. similarly, i have a great deal of nostalgia for the original and it's SO cool to be able to compare it with what we know now!
This video is exceptional and your narrating style is very enjoyable. I can't believe I just watched (quietly nodding along and agreeing) a 2hr review of a 25 year old documentary.
It really is peerless and we are both lucky to have grown up in England when it was released
i usually put on your videos when im going to sleep or when im at work, not because theyre boring or anything but its a great way to wind down and relax. ive watched your prehistoric planet and when dinosaurs roamed america videos countless times, this will surely be added to the list
NO WAY!! I literally used to watch this and walking with monsters all the time when it was on netflix when I was younger, havent heard of it nor seen it since until now
I just rewatched it last night, it's worth pointing out how cutting edge it seemed at the time, serving as a general update, which has now been itself updated. This is a good thing.
I unfortunately didn't catch it properly at the time (except for seeing part of the episode with the sad, old pterodactyl who couldn't find a mate, on the Discovery channel one day) but I caught it for the first time (on UA-cam--it probably isn't there anymore) only several years ago, and I gotta say: It still holds up pretty well! Non-feathered dinosaurs or no, Walking with Dinosaurs and its sister serieses, Walking with Monsters, Beasts, and Cavemen, are still pretty gripping stuff. I am NOT gonna forget the story of that poor mama Dimetrodon who starved herself to keep her eggs safe through a drought, anytime soon, for example. Or the Tyrannosaurus "chicks" freaking out at a newcomer reptile--a snake! :)
I had this show recorded on a completely yellow VHS tape, it's probably still somewhere in the house. Such a wonderful series
Me too haha. No video player now to see if it still works :(
Happy Birthday Walking With Dinosaurs!!
And now the 2025 anniversary sequel of WWD is under filming. Can't wait and super excited. Their promise is episodes like The Ballad of Big Al and hopefully it won't be like the 2013 WWD 3D movie.
what an awesome channel, really relit my dino obsession from over ten years ago
Still my favorite paleomedia of all time!
Happy 25th Anniversary Walking with Dinosaurs, and many thanks to the legendary crew who brought this work of art to life.
Regarding Time of the Titans, I always have found the design of Diplodocus a bit "ugly" (for lack of a better word), their heads look a bit skull-like and the neck thing always bugged me. New Blood has remained my favourite episode with Cruel sea runner up, however the intro of Giant of the skies and the same scene at the end with the haunting music always gives me goosebumps, still 25 years later. Also just love the coastal scenes with Tapejara and the waves crashing
Man I just discovered your channel, top tier video !
(+ you got an amazing voice for documentaries)
I can't wait for next year's reboot. I hope it's just as good
I can't wait for the upcoming 2025 Walking With Dinosaurs.
Fantastic video mate, really loved it
I was so saddened to hear about the passing of Mike and Jez though, such talented individuals who were so instrumental in creating these shows we all love so much
Forgot to mention:
The (archived) WWD website confirmed that the _Diplodocus_ in the programme are "Seismosaurus" aka. _Diplodocus hallorum_ , not _D. carnegii_. Tried to post link but UA-cam deleted my comment so I'm posting the quote instead:
"If there's one thing that characterises the dinosaurs of the Jurassic period it's their size. This was when land animals were at their biggest ever, and the huge vegetarian sauropods were the biggest of them all. There are a variety of species of sauropods and the one that we looked at in this programme is Diplodocus (an animal well represented in the Morrison). However, the actual sizes of our Diplodocus are based on an animal presently known as Seismosaurus (meaning 'earth-shaker') - there are some though who claim that the skeleton of Seismosaurus is just a big Diplodocus. So, following the advice of our scientific consultants, we have used the name Diplodocus. Palaeontology is a constantly moving science and one of the symptoms of that is that names can come and go."
An hour and 5 minutes in you mention Ornithochierus. In 2006 I discovered a new related genus Aetodactylus in north Texas.
Imagine WWD Remake+ updated info and dino reconstruction.
So glad to see the WWD review(s) get a remaster and glad to hear you're doing better then you were back then
Gonna make some popcorn, watch this and then go back to counting down the days till prehistoric parks 20th anniversary ❤🦕🦖
Walking With Dinosaurs was a favourite of mine as a kid, and it still is. I'm surprised the tape didnt get worn out from how much I watched it over the years lol
Looking forward to when you eventually review Walking with Monsters and Prehistoric Park. Keep up the great work, HodgePodge! 🧐
For "Death of a Dynasty", they could have also included Palaeosaniwa, the largest terrestrial lizard in the Mesozoic Era. It lived with T-Rex, Torosaurus, Edmontosaurus and Didelphodon in Hell Creek Montana. Perhaps a scene showing it hunting Didelphodon or raiding dinosaur nests alongside them would have been nice to see.
Genuinely curious as I’ve never heard of it, when was it discovered?
@JackWithAburger It was discovered in the 1903 and later named in 1928. It's poorly known with only a few fossil vertebrae and a jawbone fragment with teeth found in Alberta, Canada. If you look it up, there are many depictions of it resembling a monitor lizard or gila monster and is also now believed to be venomous.
@JackWithAburger It was discovered in 1903 and later named in 1928. Only a few fossil vertebrae and a jaw bone with teeth have been found in Alberta, Canada. It's said to measure 7 ft long and weigh 13 lbs. A lot of depictions show it looking similar to a monitor lizard or gila monster.
as a 7 year old kid this show was everything to me. i didn't realize how revolutionary it was and seeing dinos with feathers change my whole perspective since they mention they are related to birds. such a good doc!
I came for the Dino nostalgia but you had me within the first seconds of the video when I heard the Torvis Bog track. A fellow man of culture I see.
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wow, this is really well done
Happy 25th anniversary Waling with dinosaurs. Can’t wait for walking with dinosaurs 2, I hope they’ll bring the Spinosaurus into the series. Can you do a review video of Planet Dinosaur 2013
The best way to make "Death of a Dynasty" work would be to have Hell Creek just having survived a wildfire, due to a drought caused by volcanic ashes, possibly.
Awesome , THANK YOU For the
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videos like this made me love ur channel. keep it up man, you are fantastic
It's crazy how many of these animals are probably completely different guys, amazed no one has made a redo that changes the names a bit
Happy 25th anniversary to the one that started it all!
The effort of revisiting this series, which was several years in the making, is admirable to say the least, and you did a great job at updating your own info, so congrats!
There are some possible, very arguable corrections to make in regards to production, though, as the website for WWD mentions the north american Iguanodon is based on "Iguanodon ottingeri", a now dubious species hailing from the Cedar Mountain formation, ironically making it even more plausible to show it alongside Utahraptor and Gastonia. As for Steropodon, the website also doesn't mention it by name at all, and it seems to imply it's just meant to be a generic mammal. In addition, the small pterosaur from Giant of the Skies is actually a different model from the later Azhdarcho, and there is a render for it, though it looks kinda crappy, with a rather tiny head. There is some speculation that it's meant to be Ornithostoma, which lived alongside Ornithocheirus and was at the time thought to be a pteranodontid, but no confirmation of that identity exists, and the render just says "pterosaur", so it might be a false lead.
Using the tail as a broad clubbing device on a much smaller predator feels like a reasonable defense. The sonic whip however would be rather extreme as an attack.
Taylor Sheridan casting himself as a self-insert badass who looks awesome, rides horses better than everyone else, wagers millions of dollars, talks like a badass, has the coolest luxury truck money can buy, and inserts his real life ranch as the "place where REAL cowboys are made" is very telling as to who he is in real life
I binged the whole show today for the first time, it was great! Don’t have time to watch this today but seems interesting!
I showed this show to my cousin last year. The one about marine reptiles. I still got jumpscared at the beginning. It didn't even forget that part. Although she didn't seem scared, even though she's a kid and has never seen it, so maybe I'm just a wuss.
I still think the blue messa member should be where New Blood should have been set. It is close enough. Thanks for letting me know about camposaurus.
Also, it would be cool to feature Drepanosaurus
I know it’s not necessarily dinosaur focused but You should do a review on “dragons a fantasy made real” incredible fictional documentary
I gotta say when it comes to graphics, animation, presentation, narration of a dino-docu exists this documentary and arguably 3 years later "When Dinosaurs Roamed America", then its about 20 years of nothing, then "Prehistoric Planet". Like nothing could beat those 2 documentaries for 2 bloody decades in terms of overall quality and presentation.
I wish the aetosaurs had been better-known when the series was in production, it would've been amazing to see animals like Typothorax (which I believe is known from Chinle) in New Blood.
Isn’t Desmatosuchus also from Chinle?
@@azaanimations319 I think so? The species of Typothorax that lived during the Norian would've been slightly larger than Desmatosuchus when fully grown though
Good lord 25 years. A glorious program, i remember it very well
Thank you for this video, pleasure to watch. The final episode may be grim but I love the 'teasers' for the world to come, in the mammal cameos here. I never considered the tiny dead mammal to be purgatorius but if it is, that's also an ironic intro to the Holocene millions of years away.
brilliant video
1:28:32 To be fair, megaraptoran affinities aside, given how small the Leallynasaura are, it's probably not unfeasible for a megaraptoran, like Australovenator, to be able to capture them using solely its mouth.
Had to immediately like and comment to shout out the Metroid Prime ost used in the background.
The best thing of Walking with Dinosaurs is The Eerie and unsettling World vibe. It transports you to a strange and unifamiliar primal World with mythical sounds and epic soundtrack equals tô Symphony If The planets... The dated features only makes It better because its more eerie, creepy and unknown as Dinosaur should always bê in docs and movies... Hard to beat this one ..
Keep up the good work 👍
Best dinosaur documentaries still I will always live and die for this documentary matter fact, my babysitter actually recorded it on VHS on the discovery channel version at the time before I saw the BBC version without her I’ve probably wouldn’t got into walking with dinosaurs unfortunately, she passed away rip nanna
I can't wait for a Walking with Beasts video in the style of this one somewhere in the future, that one (or Chased by Sea Monsters, it's really interchangeable for me) is my absolute favorite Walking With entry
Take a shot every time he says “gracile” and/or “robust” 🍺
I enjoy your videos quite a lot, can you make a video on "Walking With Monsters" at some point? It's one of my favorites.
New Blood and Time of the Titans are 50% of this review; this is because the original CS, GotS, SotIF and DoaD reviews are already so perfect.
Absolutely
Great video 👏🏻 I still have the tie in book!
Still waiting for your Walking with Monsters reviews. Are we ever going to see your thoughts on the current final of the Walking with Series? Or is that expected in 2025 closer to the new Walking with Dinosaurs?
An alternative formation that I propose setting the episode "A Cruel Sea" in would be the Charmouth Mudstone formation. It would be a great opportunity to feature giant ichthyosaurs (Temnodontosaurus) as well as several of the most iconic marine reptiles (Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus).
Perhaps the episode could also briefly touch on the evolution of armored dinosaurs, since Scelidosaurus also comes from that formation.
Ha I get featured in the video at 1:29:30 😂
Thanks for adding it to the vid 🎉
Making me feel old!
Mind was blown when this came out.
Honestly, so good I'm watching it a second time
26:56 I'd suggest the Ischigualasto Formation if we're willing to put the time differences aside.
Still up there with OG Planet Earth as one of the greatest documentaries ever made.
Such a brilliant series. I absolutely loved watching it as a kid and still do. One thing i love about it is that there is a good balance of practical effects and cgi which makes it look much more real compared to today's movies that just use cgi for everything. I'm excited for wwd 2!
The Spirit of the Ice forest is my favorite and I gotta say I don't think you can get rid of koolasuchus without severely hurting the episode. It's a relic of a time before dinosaurs
Thank you for all of the "Walking With" videos. I really enjoy them and am about to start on your playlist of the beast ones.
Just wondering did you ever watch the "Walking With Monsters"? The 3rd series about the prehistoric life before the dinosaurs?
Even with the dated cgi and even with all the inaccuracies Walking with Dinosaurs will forever be one of the greatest documentaries ever created. As a man of faith I believe the magic of this show will travel through the universe for all eternity
Nice. Two weeks after I sent in my paper on Walking with dinosaurs, with all the research and source management, you step around with a video, where all the informations come together. 🙄 Damn. All the work could have been so easy...
I saw this daily after Christmas when I was in kindergarten (1999). I will always love it, even with it's faults
Narrator: "Life on Earth will never again be this large."
Nickocado Avocado: "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?"
2 steps ahead
This series was my childhood.
Thanks for taking the silepill ❤
I am watching a marathon of walking with dinosaurs tonight, going to be great.
cant wait for the new series with the advances in technology and knowledge
This show was ahead of its time
Walking with dinosaurs in 25 years and get new one feature lusotitan and Spinosaurus
What's lusotitan?
I'm immensely butthurt, living in a constant state of deep, dark depression due to the fact that the only copies of this amazing show widely available are approximately nine pixels resolution
Impossible Pictures! They did the creature effects and CGI for the TV show Primeval too. Those two guys are basically responsible for the coolest shows of my childhood lol
Nothing sparked an admiration and love for dinosaurs and history like walking with dinosaurs
This was worth 2 hours of my life
What's funny is that in the Discovery Channel version they call the polar ''allosaur'' carnosaur Which I don't know why they did that and also they went back and said called it Australia
Interestingly enough, when I last looked up Allosauroidea on Wikipedia (not always a reliable source but hey at least it doesn't always skimp out on details when it IS updated) the Megaraptorans were recently considered as the last of the Carnosauria group of Theropods after the Allosauroids became extinct.
@@kylecollier7569 don’t trust, Wikipedia
Well allosaurs were carnosaurs
Dr. Jim Kirtland, who found the animal, he said that North America and Scandinavia were both connected to each other, so Utah raptor would’ve migrated to Scandinavia without getting his feet wet but yeah, that’s not really the case
Will you do this with Beasts and Monsters? Maybe Chased by too
Great video btw, might be the most complete video on WWD on UA-cam