Prehistoric Planet
The trailer for the show is official.
Young tyrannosaurus rex paddle through shallow ocean water near a sandy shore, their powerful legs working hard to make up for their small arms. The long-necked sauropods are affectionate with each other. Dust clouds are raised by packs of duck-billed dinosaurs as they migrate across vast deserts. The scenes in the official trailer for "Prehistoric Planet" offer a glimpse of dinosaurs and their neighbors, much in the way a nature documentary would feature dramatic moments in the lives of modern animals.
The trailer shows stunning footage from around the world, combined with realistic computer-generated imagery, to bring an assortment of Cretaceous creatures back to life, and to challenge what viewers thought they knew about these animals.
The new five-part series introduces habits, lifestyles and behaviors of long extinct species and shows how dinosaurs interacted millions of years ago, Apple TV+ representatives said in a statement.
The trailer features diverse habitats and offers a fresh perspective on a variety of dinosaurs, from the famed Triceratops to the less-familiar, heavily armored and tanklike Nodosaurus.
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Sir David Attenborough narrates the series, and the trailer hints at some of the stories that will be told in the series. The archosaurs were not dinosaurs, but they lived alongside them during the periods of the dinosaurs.
Recent discoveries in paleontology informed how the dinosaurs and other Cretaceous animals behaved. There are two new species of tyrannosaur described in the journal Nature Communications.
According to Live Science, T. rex was slightly smaller and more slender than Qianzhousaurus. It had a long snout, which led scientists to call it Pinocchio rex.
The dinosaurs in the trailer are covered in feathers, reflecting recent discoveries about how commonly feathers appeared across the theropod. One of the most dramatic images in the trailer is an extreme close-up of the Velociraptor's enormous claw.
We will be bringing you more sneak peeks of this series in the coming weeks, please check back here at Live Science for more theropod teases and sauropod surprises!
The premiere of "Prehistoric Planet" will be on Apple TV+ on May 23.
It was originally published on Live Science.
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