We had a good thread last time, let's see how it goes again
Discuss:Saddest moment?
>T-rex babies get orphaned
>big Al
>Indrocithere mom scares her baby away
>Pterosaur bro getting cucked to death
>the fact that we will probably never get another good season/series
>>70228178
>>big Al
Incredibly sad one.
Also from Big Al:
>when the toy Al is eaten by a crocodyle :(
>>70228230
gone but not forgotten
Not even three minutes in and the feels are in full swing
before anyone spreads misinformation, only 43 species of dinosaurs are known to have had feathers
>>70231754
somehow I think that a sauropod like diplodocus would look rather stupid when covered in a wall of feathery fluff
hehe why would they need feathers if it was hot as balls?
check m8 paleontologists
>>70232521
to look hotter for the girls, just like peacocks
also don't mind my filename dumping
OP from last thread. It was pretty gud I think
feels: the episode
>>70233267
Was my least favorite episode when I was a child but then I finally got it ;_;
Also fuck, I think I still have VHS with all the dinosaurs and beasts. Truly great to see a thread about it on /tv/
>>70228178
>We will never have a new episode of Walking With Dinosaurs
>>70233267
i havent seen this since like 2 years after it initially aired; why was he the only one who didnt get it in/? made me mad
>>70233838
why not/?
>>70233838
>>70233942
they tried with walking with monsters
It didn't work. Too much CGI I think, coupled with less personalized stories. Really the only highlight is one short with a Dimetridon mother, but that's really because she was the main focus. Many other creatures of focus were literally who's, which is sad considering some creatures in wwd and wwb even had names to attach to them
Where I can watch a good quality Walking with beasts?
>>70233942
They made that shit movie with the added voices and it was a flop. I guess studios think kids are too dumb to understand dinosaurs unless they make poop jokes.
It's a fucking shame since Walking With Dinosaurs was hugely popular with kids and it was just puppets, CG and a narrator.
>>70234145
dailymotion has the whole series, but the ads are a chore and the sound has a distinct lag
>>70234190
literally a worse disney's dinosaur. Fuck that movie, it never happened
>>70234527
that was OK/10. Littered with unnecessary human-cuts, but had cool dino-science at least
>>70233267
oh god
>>70233267
I forgot about that yikes
>>70233267
I literally haven't watched this since I was 6 years old, holy fuck the nostalgia and the feels...
Anyone else was dissapointed when they found out how much smaller Liopleurodon was in actuality?
>wwm made a poop joke
>"Dung is one thing a Dimetrodon cannot stomach"
How Keneth must've felt when he read that line is one of the great mysteries of life
>>70235289
I still wouldn't want to take a dip with one. 7 meters is still a pretty big carnivore
>>70235416
I forgot pic related. You could get lower if you tried, but thank god that's about the worst the commentary gets
What is objectively the best single episode throughout the three main series. My vote have to go to Spirts of the ice forest.
>have
Auto correct has forsaken me
>>70235734
Time of the Titans, my nig.
First time in this threads. Have you alrdy discussed how they fucked up leoplevrodon in the show?
>>70236102
Fucked or improved?
>>70231754
All theropods from as early as the Jurassic period (with the possible exception of some extremely geographically isolated species such as four fingered theropods like carnotaurus) can be extrapolated to have had feathers based on the species their ancestors and close cousins being known to have had them.
>>70232406
It's currently unknown if sauropods had them but if they did it was probably something similar to the picofiberes that pterosaurs had.
>>70232521
Feathers actually can help cool animals this is the reason that tropical and desert dwelling birds have them.
>Plays out like the gorgonopsid is in trouble
>pic related snaps at it
>quickly lets go when it realizes what it grabbed
Ok I chuckled
>>70236102
yeh. Still, he's a pretty powerful force in his screen time even with the exaggeration
>>70228178
Watching Walking With makes me want to kill myself now because of the inaccuracies
>That'sAPenisMan.gif
Now I REALLY want to know where this was shot
>>70228178
>be kid
>see liopleurodon fuck shit up
>become adult
>realise that section was complete bullshit
Can we just avoid the feathers thing and have an awesome dinosaur thread anons?
>>70228178
>T-rex babies get orphaned
This isn't sad because they got orphaned, it's sad because every dinosaur documentary ends with the meteor crashing down right on top of tyrannosaurs.
Also, please forgive me for shilling Saurian, but it looks fuckin sick https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1379624404/saurian-an-open-world-dinosaur-survival-experience?lang=en
>>70236543
I know that feel. We had fucking boss dino, that beats blue whale in size and weight, and now he's gone.
>>70236543
oh? what was bullshit about it? i loved the lieupleurodon part
>>70236761
They said it was about 25 meters long when in reality it grew to about 7. By no means a tiddler, but still quite a difference
>>70236761
They put the liopleurodon more than twice its actual size, and at least 20 feet longer than any other mosasaur, pliosaur or tylosaur.
>>70236617
>Dino
It's a reptile REEEEEEEEE
>>70236851
ah shit
reminds me of how spinosaur was discovered to be not bipedal
>>70234133
i liked the mesothelae looking for a burrow and something as unorthodox as a huge fucking spider being the hero character but it was basically pseudoscience because no giant spider ever existed
>>70235734
Land of Giants in Oligocene Mongolia is pretty goat. The first episodes of both series are also p. good because they're so hype. Ocean episodes were also p good.
>>70235734
First episode was the best
Fuck I remember this.
It looked pretty realistic given how long ago it was made desu
>>70234527
sauce?
I love you for this thread guys.
I haven't seen it for ages, still got the vhs tho
>tfw I remember the scene I made when visiting some parents friends we missed last episode of dinosaurs when it was aired at tv
>tfw stylish wooden crate with walking with beasts vhs was best birthday present ever
>tfwI'm lawyer instead of paleontologist
>>70235734
WWD ranking:
Time of the Titans
Giant of the Skies
New Blood
Spirit of the Ice Forest
Cruel Sea
Death of a Dynasty
WWB ranking:
Land of Giants
New Dawn
Mammoth Journey
Whale Killer
Sabre Tooth
Next of Kin
WWC ranking:
Blood Brothers
A Savage Family
First Ancestors
The Survivors
WWM ranking:
Clash of Titans
Reptile's Beginnings
Water Dwellers
>>70237448
>mfw parents got me walking with beasts hardback companion book packed with gorgeous photographs and genuine scientific information for christmas 2001
>>70237503
What is wwc? I think I missed it
>>70236102
how big did they say he was? I was under the impression he was about 10 metres long or some shit but it could have just been relative to everything else it was eating. 6 metres is still great white shark sized.
>>70237622
Cavemen, basically all about primitive humans. I actually didn't see it when I was a kid, but got one of the massive books >>70237621 mentioned on it, so I didn't miss out too much
>>70237218
Which one
I actually met Tim Haines in like October 2007. I was about 15 at the time. It was when he was working on Primeval and the daughter of one of the dudes he worked on it with (I think Adrian Hodges) had a daughter at my little sister's school. The school was having some careers day thing where parents of all the kids would come in and have little stalls explaining their careers to the kids, and Tim Haines had come along to help out his friend/co-worker and get the kids hyped about Primeval and dinosaurs and whatever.
I was helping out my mum and dad with their stall (they worked in advertising but had retired) and then i somehow found out the guy that created Walking with Dinosaurs, basically my childhood passion, was there. My mum had known about it and actually brought along some of the sketchbooks and journals I had filled with dinosaur drawings when I was between the ages of 6 and 9, along with my other sketchbooks which had actual illustration of animals and whatnot in them. I spoke to Tim and told him how much WWD had gotten me into palaeontology and zoology and biology as well as illustration and I showed him the sketchbooks from when I was a kid and also some of the artwork I'd done recently. He seemed genuinely touched to see how much his work had inspired me, even if I was some teenager hanging out at a school careers day.
Was p cool.
anyone remember that part where it was winter and these small dinos were eaten by this big tadpole looking creature? anyone remember it's name>(tadpole one)
>>70238152
koolasuchus nigga
>>70231754
for some reason modern scholars tend to assume that just because yuturannus had feathers that somehow means every single tyrannisauridae did.
fucking t.rex did not have them, cunts.
>>70238291
>nigga
thanks mang
>>70237787
Cavemen was pretty cool, it deviated from the main trilogy in that Kenneth Branagh didn't narrate and instead based Robert Winston acted as a physical presenter, but supposedly he was travelling back in time and encountering the hominids himself. Some goofy comedy moments where they stole his biscuits or whatever. Some of the prosthetics/make up were fucking great, even if a bit inaccurate.
>>70233267
Poor bastard
>>70236547
we can, m8
>>70228178
>No thrinaxodons made to eat their babbys
>>70233267
RIP lonely bastard ;___;
>>70238071
Nice story Anon, should have got his autograph.
>>70235416
>>70234190
Why the hell, why do they have to make everything so dumb, do they want kids to grow up dumb? Or do they just want to cater wider audience? I don't think it worked
What the hell happened with science/nature documentaries anyway?
I remember discovery channel having interesting stuff, but then Mythbusters and dozen similar pulp-documentary suddenly took the whole station over.
Or is it nostalgia?
>>70239274
yeh i did he signed my sketchbook
>>70239277
Attenborough still makes pretty good stuff to this day, despite being in his 90s
>>70239277
The only good nature documentaries being made have David Attenborough as narrator. All the BBC Earth series is excellent, as well as Life which is even more recent.
As to why it's all gone down hill is now every network has to compete with instant gratification from the internet. The way they see it the internet will kill them and so the only response is to make everything EXXXTRRREEEME
>>70239277
discovery channel/etc get shitty more and more
>>70237987
New blood
Is no one going to talk about the Sea Monsters spinoff with Nigel Marven? Seriously that Megalodon was fucking nightmare fuel!
>>70239432
>>70239487
Yeah Attenborough is good.
They used to air BBC Earth on Sundays here, always watched it with my mom when visiting
>>70239691
>Jaws BTFO
As inaccurate at wwd was, this spinoff did get Megalodon right. And it's about as terrifying as it looks
Thankyou for this thread OP.
>>70239691
Yes, I enjoyed this. Good show format by breaking it into the different periods depending on the dangers and Nigel's acting wasnt too bad. Really well done for its time.
I always preferred the sea segments in WWD/B must of stemmed from my love of the Blue Planet, which is another GOAT documentary series.
>>70239487
British documentary
>Here, in the jungles of Bhata-Tuthu, the praying mantis is in search of its prey
>3 minutes of very clean and uninterrupted footage of the pray mantis following a spider
American documentary
>guitar riff playing in the background
>YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T WANT ONE OF THESE KILLERS IN YOUR BACK YARD
>Rapid jump cuts of the praying mantis
>THE PRAYING MANTIS MIGHT LOOK LIKE A BUG IN CHURCH, BUT THIS NASTY MOTHER-SUCKER IS NOT TO BE MESSED WITH
>more flashy jump cuts
>THIS LITTLE SPIDER DOESNT KNOW WHATS WAITING FOR HIM, THE FURY OF THE MANTIS IS NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED
>more flashy jump cuts
>the mantis strikes
>strange animal growling and screeching noises are dubbed in as it attacks because silent footage is too boring for americans
>slow mo replay of the attack in black and white
>AND IT'S OVER IN A FLASH
>THAT LITTLE SPIDER
>SHOULD'VE PRAYED
>TO THE MANTIS
>Starwipe to the next clip
I get that Americans don't do subtlety, but why is it that their documentaries are edited for people who seem to have fucking ADHD?
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>>70228178
thumbs up if you also bought the book xD
>>70240198
I had the Evidence book with all their scientific research.
>>70240198
Got this + the beasts one.
Its sad they didn't actually make a new one of these i remember the hype when this first came out, my parents used to record it for me and I'd watch it on the weekend on a Saturday morning while it was airing.
The OST for these was fantastic as well.
Grand, but also chilling at times.
what did /tv/ think of the film version starring John Leguizamo and Justin Long?
>>70240198
Still got it nigga
>>70240797
Can you post some of the best pictures that weren't in the show. You's be helping a homie out
>>70240881
I would do but I'm just about to go to bed, are there not scans floating around the internet?
>>70228178
>the Postosuchus sprays precious water on the ground
What did he mean by this?
Is this still on Netflix?
I remember they had all of them on there for years.
>>70240531
We don't talk about that one.
>>70238335
It's ancestors did as did all of it's closest evolutionary cousins.
It had feathers mate.
Saw at least few episodes as a kid, remember it being quite good.
Would a lot of information on that show be really outdated if I were to go and rewatch some episodes?
>>70238071
I've been here too long. I thought this was about to be a rendition of the Ryan Gosling pasta
>>70241599
I thought the same
>>70228178
>tfw no qt Australopithecus gf
>>70237621
>tfw my mom used to read this book to me before bed
>tfw she ded
>>70242072
I was about to ask if she was the t-rex, but this thread is too comfy for that.
What happened Anon?
>>70242140
Ehh, it was cancer. I don't want to think about it.
Seeing that book in the pictures really gives me feels, I must find my copy. It was in Finnish and was the first book I read myself too :) Mom probably read it to me multiple times... Of course this was long ago, I'm a grown man now but still a dino kid.
>>70242290
Sorry to hear that anon.
How is walking with dinosaurs in fingolian?
>>70242391
It was very professionally made as I recall, the series and the book. Spirits of the Ice Forest definitely my favourite, it had such an alien atmosphere somehow.
>>70242473
>spirit of the ice forest
Mah niga. What I meant was what is the series called in Finnish though
>>70242556
Oh, right. It's called 'Matkalla dinosaurusten kanssa', or 'On a journey with dinosaurs'.
>>70242701
I love that weird song of a speech you folks have up there.
Nighty night dinoanons
>>70241599
So did I
>>70241599
>When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen T-Rex eggs in his hands without paying.
The T-Rex at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to let those hatch first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
>>70236543
Archeology isn't an exact science. It's just a bunch of adults playing in sand like kids.
>>70237621
I still have my WWD companion
>had the WWD computer game
>really just an encyclopaedia with some minigames
>one where you arrange dinosaur groups into their evolutionary trees
>if you got it wrong the announcer would say something snarky
>one line is "you'll never be a palaeontologist!"
>laugh him off because I'm the best at dinosaurs and of course I'll be a palaeontologist
>go forward fifteen years
>I'm not a palaeontologist
>probably never will be
>he was right after all
>>70240531
>PIC EXTREMELY RELATED
Had potential, but the studio came in and said it was too boring and kids wouldn't like it. So they were forced to add in VO, juvenile fart jokes, and story instead of having a nature docu.
Pisses me off more than anything ever.
>>70244993
What about the one where you can wander around and look at the dinosaurs?
>>70244993
Never give up on your dreams my boy, I'm gonna go back to school and dig up big ass dinosaurs
>>70241845
iktfb
Lucy a cute. CUTE.
Who /anomalocaris/ here?
Also Sea Monsters > Walking with Dinosaurs > Walking with Cavemen > Walking with Beasts > Chased by Dinosaurs
>>70245759
forgot pic
>>70245544
Ya it was
>>70237621
Borrowed the WWB companion from the library. Loved the shit out of it. Gorgeous book with so much educational content.
Is the dino scene on hollywood dead?
>inb4 dinosaur movie with Adam Sandler
>>70248680
>Jurassic world
>>70240179
>>70248748
One movie every 3 years is not alive.
I mean marvel tier alive.
>>70240198
>owning a rothfuss novel
lmao noooooo
>>70236611
Fuck yes, glad it made the money!
