Creatures: "Walking with Beasts"

Walking with Beasts is a 2001 television documentary produced by the BBC. In North America it has been retitled Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. It recreates life in the Cenozoic by using a combination of both Computer-generated imagery and animatronics.

Creatures shown in this video (in order of appearance):

Doedicurus -- It was a prehistoric glyptodont, living during the Pleistocene until the end of the last ice age, some 11.000 years ago. This was the largest known glyptodontid, and one of the better known members of the New World Pleistocene megafauna, with a height of 1.5 meters and an overall length of around 3.6 meters. It had a huge dome, somewhat similar to that of its modern-day relative, the armadillos. Its tail was surrounded by a flexible sheath of bone and had long spikes or knobs on the end.

Deinotherium -- 3 millions years ago relative from elephants.

Indricothere (or Paraceratherium) -- a giant 7 meters tall ancestor of rhinoceros, that was the largest land mammal to have ever lived.

Moeritherium -- species that lived about 37-35 million years ago. Resembles a pygmy hippopotamuses, but this creature is in fact an ancestor of modern elephants.

Gastornis -- A human sized flightless bird that lived 49 million years ago. He ruled the world for a short time, as the most dinosaurs passed away.

Phorusrhacos (pronounced "FOR-rus-RAH-kos"- means "Rag-Bearer") -- My favourite one. It was a genus of giant flightless predatory birds, containing the single species 'Phorusrhacos longissimus'. Their closest living relatives are Seriema birds. It was much larger than the seriemas however, and looked more like an ostrich in appearance. These fierce birds lived in woodlands and grasslands. Stood around 2.5 meters tall and weighed approximately 130 kilograms. It was nicknamed the "Terror Bird" for obvious reasons: it was one of the largest carnivorous birds to have ever existed, and its rudimentary wings formed arm-like structures with claws. It ate small mammals and carrion.

Megatherium ("Great Beast") -- It was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths that lived from 2 million to 8,000 years ago.

Woolly Mammoth - is a specie of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of the elephant family and close relatives of modern elephants. They lived from the Pliocene epoch around 4.8 million years to 4,500 years ago.

From Wikipedia.

Music: Yanni -- "Reason for Rainbows" (From "With I Could tell You" Album).

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[94jg]

Man technology is kicking ass...... can't wait to see stuff like this remade 20-30 years from now.

[lemaro1977]

@94jg Sure :-) Maybe they will do a remake or "Walking with Beasts 2" (along with the others, from trilogy)!

regards,

[antifilipino]

you have no idea how many times i showed this video to my friends :D thnx man for uploading it manXD

[lemaro1977]

@antifilipino no, I thank you :-)

regards

[Starchild91]

Oh, wouldn't it be amazing if we could go back in time and see these creatures with our own eyes?

I would do anything to see them, and experience how life was back then.

Would also be interesting to see how the human/ape people would react to a modern human as well!

If we'd live long enough to find out, there is...

[adamgrogory]

@coscorolo Thats his tail!

[356butch]

Sometimes I think it's a shame these creatures are extinct but last night I hit a deer on the way home from work. The damage to my car was bad enough but if I hit one of these animals it would have tuned my car into a pile of scrap and then they'd turn around and eat what was left of me out of it. No thanks!

[coscorolo]

LOOK AT ELEFANTS DICK AT 0:39

[guruzin]

Just Google it: Prehistoric Mammals Collection by Guruzen.

[TheGreatCrow]

@Starchild91

Amen, brother.

[hogo1]

really a pity that some of these animals, not all, were driven to extinction by man. Even the ancestors to native americans who everyone thinks live in perfect harmony with nature, nonsense

[smoke701]

the best ....

[bulbaman1]

@gurgir Wrong. He doesn't sit on a cloud.

[thestrongbad]

That Ostrich looking thing looks like a chocobo...that would be awesome to ride one of those things.

[gurgir]

lol @MrPrazil yea sure it makes more sence that some 5million year old mother fucker sitting on a cloud created the earth LOLWUT xD