Attenborough series sinks teeth into fruits of ‘dinosaur revolution’

The makers of a new docuseries exploring life on Earth 66 million years ago have said that adinosaurs are being discovered every week.

Sir David Attenborough narrates Prehistoric Planet, which is being aired on Apple TV on Monday.

The executive producers of the show include Jon Favreau, who has been involved in a string of Hollywood blockbusters, and Mike Gunton, who has previously worked on the Bafta-winning documentary Planet Earth II.

Gunton told the Guardian that the five-part series combines wildlife film-making, the latest discoveries in palaeontology and cutting-edge technology to recreate the dinosaurs that inhabited Earth in a one-of-a-kind immersive experience.

He said that the late Cretaceous period was an extraordinary time of life. The animals that lived during that time were complex and sophisticated. They were wonderful and amazing.

It was the right time to make a show about how dinosaurs lived, according to the show's consultant palaeontologist.

The key is that we are in the middle of a dinosaur revolution. It is more than 50 a year. No one can keep up with this.

Soft tissues on dinosaur remains have been discovered in China. He said that this and modern technology allow for new takes on the creatures.

For example, T rexes must have courted to make babies, but how did they do it?

The technique they used for the series takes into account the family tree of the animals.

It is surrounded on one side by crocodiles and alligators and on the other side by birds, which are dinosaurs. If there are similarities between those species and your extinct animal, you can see that.

He said that the more we learn about the past, the better we can understand the present and future.

Everyone involved in science is aware of the climate crisis. The world we are creating today is the result of our actions, like high CO 2 levels and less ice, which caused more water to be deposited in the atmosphere.

It was great for seagoing reptiles. All of the low coastal areas of western Europe were flooded and North America was split in two by a sea.

The fact that dinosaurs are no longer with us is sobering.

It reminds you of how fragile the planet is, because mother nature is more powerful. It reminds you of the planet's resilience. He said that as one door shuts, another opens.