This is how the intro of "Mammals" goes, what was I supposed to do?! xD

Correct

In fact, considering the iridium layer (which is how asteroid was originally discovered), I don’t think it was ever suggested to be a comet. Don’t know why WWD went down the comet route.

Especially when it starts flashing making it look white, right here if you pause 0:03

PhP in the cenozoic would be really dope.

Absolutely. I wish more people could appreciate an animal for its extraordinary adaptations and not just size.

Valid criticism. I feel like they can't help themselves whenever making something mammal focused, even if it's just an episode like in Life (2009). Still some impressive sequences in it, such as the Orca hunt.

@@PaleoEdits This is one of the cases where I wonder if Attenborough himself is the problem due to his outdated education in these areas, especially given that his Life of… series and Life on Earth has subtle nuances in that direction as well.

​@@bkjeong4302 He could very well be part of it, being the most influential nature filmmaker - the lens through which most of us get to view these wonderful animals in action. I'd say that the bias generally tends to appear through those grand evolutinary stories, with or without David. With man > other mammals > reptiles > amphibians > fishes. I can forgive Life On Earth, being the OG from 1979, and still holding up better than the Netflix remake in many aspects. But in the future, perhaps a better way to step forward through time in such a series would be to look at ecosystems rather than clades. Or perhaps by going backwards through time rather than forwards. Tracing roots instead of progressing with "technological innovation". The worst - non-evolutionary-themed - offender I can think of is "Life", a clade themed show which did reptiles dirty next to mammals. At the same time, watching "Life in the Cold Blood" I can hear nothing but praise for reptiles, even for their intelligence in the perentie segment. So removing mammals from the context might have helped to remove the bias in that case. Hopefully a potential reptiles sequel series would do the same. I will say tho, that I do think the mammal bias in particular is kind of unavoidable to a degree. They are easier for us, as mammals, to relate to and understand. Sociability is a common trait, which we find especially charsmatic. But to say, as the original description of "Mammals", that mammals have an "unrivaled intelligence" is a rather outdated way to frame it, indeed. Most mammals are planks next to corvids... Btw, out of curiosity; would you be interested in writing a short synopsis of this hypotheical "Prehistoric Mammals" series for the description? If nothing else, it'd be interesting to hear how you'd frame this series if you were given the task of telling the Cenozoic story, from the K-Pg to today.

@@PaleoEdits Yeah that’s what I think, with things like Life being rather terrible in that regard, but the bias being removed in programs like Life on Cold Blood where this idea of “superior” mammals can’t take hold because mammals aren’t ever the focus of the program. Re: sociability, it’s worth nothing that the majority of mammals aren’t that social and that plenty of nonmammals are, so even that argument is dependent on double standards. For a Prehistoric Mammals series, I’d actually have the first episode focusing on how mammals got big basically right after K-Pg (have mesonychians and pantodonts as the main stars), and then have things like Gastornis and Boverisuchus appear in the following (Eocene) ep-something that helps disprove the usual narrative (with Attenborough has implied in the companion books to Life of Birds and Life on Earth) where giant birds took over the Early Cenozoic but only until the mammals finally got big and outcompeted them. The idea is that instead of having the “mammals spread out across the world and outcompete and wipe out the “inferior” birds/crocs/sharks as their reach expands” narrative, we have the mammals have things easy AT FIRST but then face increasing competition from those other lineages as the Cenozoic progresses and both they and the other lineages diversify, which still allows you to show mammalian evolution and diversification but would prevent the “mammals are taking over because they’re better” narrative. (another good example would be to have Otodus portrayed as a serious threat and not a “dumb primitive thing that is losing out to mammals” in the Miocene episode, especially if the episode makes it clear the reign of the raptorial sperm whales would come to an end soon with the shark actually outlasting them for a bit).

Well,there are: Prehistoric predators Giant beasts

"forgotten bloodlines: agate" is in production

@@user-tt5cg9yp8l Did you mean "Ice age giants" with giant beasts?