A large Deinocheirus dinosaur on the show.

Think about all the dinosaur content you've ever seen: books, movies, or a Far Side cartoon. To your best understanding of how dinosaurs lived, consider how realistic each depiction was. I suggest you compare all of the dinosaurs you've seen before to Apple TV's Prehistoric Planet, which shows the true lives of dinosaurs as they were 66 million years ago.

There are lizards that need back scratches, hadrosaurs that are worried about mosquitos, and pterosaurs that are stressed out about finding a mate. Prehistoric Planet shows how similar dinosaurs are to us. It makes those depictions super-real using top-of-the-line CGI and the work of over 1,500 people, including paleoartists, CGI artists, paleontologists, cinematographers, and more.

The show's chief scientific consultant and the show's producer spoke to Gizmodo about how Prehistoric Planet came to be. You can see some of the amazing shapes of Prehistoric Planet in the form of 18 shots of computer-generated dinosaurs.