Creatures: "Walking with Monsters"

"Walking with Monsters" (also distributed as "Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters" or "Walking with Monsters: Life before Dinosaurs") is a BBC´s three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles. This is the prequel to "Walking with Dinosaurs" and shows nearly 300 million years of Paleozoic history, from the Cambrian Period (530 million years ago) to the Early Triassic Period (248 million years ago).

I made a video where I put together some shots of my favourite creatures. Animals shown are:

Anomalocaris ("Anomalous shrimp") an 1 meter wide creature thought to be closely related to the arthropods.

Arthropleura was a 0.3--2.6 meter (1--8.5 feet) long relative of centipedes and millipedes, native to the Upper Carboniferous (340-280 million years ago). It was the largest known land invertebrate of all time.

Brontoscorpio ("thunder scorpion") was a 1-metre long aquatic scorpion that lived during the Silurian period.

Diictodon was an herbivorous, roughly 45 cm (18 inches) long. He digs holes and hide under the ground, to scape from predators.

Dimetrodon was a predatory synapsid ('mammal-like reptile') genus that flourished during the Permian Period, living between 280-265 million years ago. It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards. Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur, despite being popularly grouped with them. It grew to up to 3 1/2 meters (11 feet) in length. The name Dimetrodon means 'two-measures of teeth', so named because it had a large skull with two different types of teeth (shearing teeth and sharp canine teeth), unlike reptiles.

Edaphosaurus ("earth lizard") was a primitive herbivorous pelycosaur. Shown in herds being watched by Dimetrodon.

Hyneria was a prehistoric predatory fish that lived during the Devonian period around 360 million years ago. It was approximately 4 meters in length and weighed as much as two tons. There is also evidence from bones that it had very strong fins and maybe could go onto land.

Meganeura was a predatory prehistoric insect of the Carboniferous period (300 million years ago), resembling and related to the present-day dragonfly. With a wingspan of more than 75 cm (2.5 feet) wide, it was the largest known flying insect species to ever appear on Earth.

Proterosuchus was the largest land reptile during the Early Triassic period, equivalent in size to today's Komodo Dragons. It looked similar to a primitive crocodile.

Pterygotus is the second-largest known sea scorpion and one of the largest arthropods of all time. It could reach a length of 2.3 m (about 7 feet). A female is shown capturing a brontoscorpio to feed her youngs.

Trilobites ("three-lobes") appeared in the Early Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era. The last of the trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago. Because of their diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton, they left an extensive fossil record with some 17,000 known species, making them a very famous fossil group.

(From Wikipedia)

Music: Yanni -- "November sky" (From "With I Could tell You" Album)

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[thiago9p]

I would love if all these species were alive!

[lemaro1977]

@thiago9p me too :-)

[jamiekenta]

is the show "walking with monsters" just a re-titled version of "Life before the dinosaurs?"

[lemaro1977]

@jamiekenta yes, eXact!!!

[BellaZendayaLover]

OMG, the Diictodon was sooo cute. it was in Primeval. xD

[GTubeStudios]

thumbs up if prehistoric animals are more awesomer than the ones in the present

[SplashLurky10]

@unibrow12345678 I'm sorry if this is so rude, but is there anything wrong w/ religion? Besides, none of these things ever explained in Bible, Koran, or any religion, right?

[SplashLurky10]

@xblackiris10x Of course, there wasn't a herbivore creatures yet, kid, we humans are sometimes vegetarian too. We don't eat our friend's flesh, unless if we're canibal.

[Dinomatrix21]

Your vids are amzing! I love all your creature vids (except for the model ones T_T) !

[unibrow12345678]

@BlackBeltOfADDICTION You pretty much described religon

[thecyanlizard]

@thecyanlizard i wish they ed still lived today though"



[thecyanlizard]

"get ur own prehistoric trilobites for only 50 dollars!"with the tank and food!

[Draeka]

I hate how prehistoric life seems to prove that Mankind is really a plague upon other life and especially this planet. If we do have a creator he's a cruel son of a bitch.

[TheMetalMissionary]

@xblackiris10x No. Humans just kill other Humans for the fun of it.

[xblackiris10x]

@xblackiris10x then again we do kill animals for food. and sometimes we kill each other so i guess we're not all to different haha