The Scientific Accuracy of Walking With Dinosaurs - Episode 1: New Blood

20 years after it originally aired, how scientifically accurate is Walking With Dinosaurs?
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[@BenGThomas]

Episode 2 is here! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5Kzi2Z8h56Fp9k

[@hamsterlord8848]

You're probably going to be bummed when you learn Dinosaurs never actually existed. Watch the Eric Dubay documentary on the conspiracy.

[@themiller3940]

@@hamsterlord8848 lmao what

[@paintfatpurple7394]

Thank you. They should remake this series.

[@Beano_man]

don't forget the ballad of big al

[@dawnheart4436]

I had the two movie vcr version of walking with dinosaurs I remember

[@Sawrattan]

The magic wasn't just the special effects or accuracy, it was the presentation as a 'real-life documentary' with Attenborough-style narration and continuous filming (no cutaways to diagrams etc)

[@dyslexiusmaximus]

good point

[@_robustus_]

I always thought this same approach should be done for archeology. Good recreations of ancient cultures are rare. I enjoy watching good attempts in movies even though they pay for less historic consultation that I would. There are Turkestani trinkets and baubles passed off as Anatolian jewelry in Troy and southeast Asian textiles passed off Babylonian and Bactrian in Alexander. Just sayin...

[@FaolanHart]

I grew up watching nature documentaries & reading books on prehistoric life. Seeing the two combined was such a magical experience.

[@michaeld-21]

And not following the journey of a random hadrosaur called Jimmy like they do now

[@GeteMachine]

I agree, the strength of this series is that it did present the lives of dinosaurs in vary natural way like a documentary on them in the ecosystem. You rarely get dinosaur documentaries that focus on storytelling with science incorporated in it.

[@best_minicon_dad]

Scientifically accurate or not, the absolute *EFFORT* that went into this series from the practical effects to the pretty good CGI for the time has to be appreciated.

[@sephikong8323]

The fact that the CGI still looks okay 20 years later should tell a lot about the efforts the artists did

[@Marru987]

Did you guys ever watch the 2000 film "Dinosaur"? Walking With Dinosaurs CGI is quite nice, I've always loved the docu-series, but it's also fascinating to know how advanced CGI really was back then already.

[@deadplthebadass21]

@@Marru987also thanks for mentioning dinosaur... It reminded me of something Edit: I accidentally deleted my comment... I was saying another comment that the movie dinosaur is a movie... And making CGI for a TV show is much more difficult and that's why special.. I had 9 likes on that comment

[@voilvelev6775]

Honestly, Im more annoyed at the people bitching about this, despite this doing more for archeology in upbringing kids with interest in it, than anything else has ever done.

[@Anonymous38572]

@@deadplthebadass21 but that's literally ALL of the TV show is CGI. js, that's all theyneedd to pull off

[@macrussell78]

The show that got me obsessed in paleontology and science as a kid.

[@BenGThomas]

You're not the only one! 😄

[@olavikiuru]

Mac Russell Same :)

[@garypfeiffer3489]

I would watch it again and again each month

[@gridgaming387]

Mac Russell same

[@valkeakirahvi]

Mee too!

[@kaseyfreudenstein4970]

What we expect: I'm gonna rip this series apart Ben: it might have peed differently

[@MouseGoat]

yeah, seeing that bird poop had a weird impact on me. Like that one im in zoo a saw a elephant hump another elephant an cum. It's really really disgusting... but like that's a impressive amount of disgusting. I think i need to go lie down get some sleep before awake something I must deftly don't want to But yeah, awesome video, Dinos are freaking cool.

[@PsychSoldier756]

@@MouseGoat TMI my guy XD

[@Milk27]

@@MouseGoat as yes, great comment to start my morning

[@bkjeong4302]

This episode actually DESERVES to be ripped apart. The entire theme and symbolism of this episode is wrong.

[@friendlyneighborhoodkelbea7258]

​@@bkjeong4302 yeah, this episode presents non-dinosaur reptiles as antics of the past and makes it seem like Dinosaurs easily took over, but the truth is the competition was fierce and dinosaurs just got lucky cause of the triassic-jurassic extinction.

[@TheGuardianssorrow]

I really wish I followed my dream to become a paleontologist.

[@iambeavis762]

Biologist and zoologist ain't ba either

[@bbbabrock]

It's not too late (unless you have died since posting that).

[@caedenmolloy]

@@bbbabrock How late is too late?

[@bbbabrock]

@@caedenmolloy What? Isnt that my point?

[@caedenmolloy]

@@bbbabrock Oh it was more of a question to you really

[@d0ntfeedphil447]

Inaccurate or not it's still a great series to watch if you're a fan of prehistoric life

[@hedgehog3180]

For it's time you have to give it credit for being incredibly up to date and even getting some things spot on. The use of scientifically informed speculation is something I'll always applaud because it helps to bring these animals to life and can help advance the field. If you then get it wrong that's just how it is in science but better to take a risk and fail than to not. Also of course back then we used to know way less about the behavior of these animals so you had to speculate to fill in the gaps.

[@swankfiber5278]

Aaron Rodgers sucks

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

d0ntfeedphil it looks like shit

[@thedeadcannotdie]

@@JimmyJames10-k7v the real environments and close up puppet shots make it quite believable

[@Sawrattan]

@@thedeadcannotdie the real environments are still pretty unique, even recent dinosaur documentaries prefer to use CGI background which goes against the whole point.

[@Exoneos]

Cretaceous Dinosaur: I'll piss here nobody will find out. Modern Paleotologist: Hold my pickaxe !!!

[@xergiok2322]

Surely, he's going to need his pickaxe.

[@DunkinBiscuits]

xergiok lol hold my pickaxe cos i aint doin sh#t today

[@michaelcho3564]

@@DunkinBiscuits well you'll be mining some coprolites cause...

[@selenajarv8763]

He heee

[@charlescole1766]

ha ha. cloaca go psssss

[@FPSGamer48]

We need this, but with every “Walking with” Series. Monsters, Dinosaurs, Beasts, and Cavemen! Also, overall, we need MORE of these as a whole. Making a new “Walking With” series would be a great idea on BBC’s part

[@noisy_killjoy]

There's more of them? How did I not know this?

[@thegreatgoldfilms6311]

what is there left to walk with?

[@sirmagnumcat4996]

@@thegreatgoldfilms6311 joe mama

[@valentinblue1952]

@@thegreatgoldfilms6311 Walking with Boomers

[@martangelocloma6965]

Walking with dinosaurs: Back To The Original

[@-TheUnkownUser]

This series is truly amazing... and more than a classic; Is a legendary series…

[@klausschmidt982]

Confession time: Back when I was five or so and watched the series for the first time, I actually thought the animals were real as in they are presenting real, living animals somehow brought back with science or something. Dont judge I was still in kindergarten

[@Charlie-Charlot]

You’re not alone, when I was younger I genuinely thought they were real.

[@omegaforcezero5440]

Haha! I thought I was the only one how believe that

[@piotrkarp9562]

What's wrong with that? It's cool. :)

[@13thmistral]

yea, i thought something between someone like that and putting down some sort of timemachine to wrap a certain area back into time and to record it or something...

[@bthunderbolt4101]

In all fairness the tuatara in it is real and still alive

[@LeoTheYuty]

Still stands as one of the best paleodocumentaries of all time

[@InvaderGIR98]

Hiding Ceolophysis's feet behind the mud piles is such a mood. It just made me laugh because that's exactly how I used to draw dinosaurs, or literally any animal or character because I had so much trouble drawing feet, so it's amusing knowing an actual talented production company used the same trick, even if for a different reason.

[@boggybeard]

They also did that in Jurassic Park. When Rexy crashes out of the trees and catches a Gallimimus, it's big feet are cleverly obscured by Sam Neil's head and a rock.

[@PortCharmers]

I remember drawing the legs too short sometimes, so I had to add a little hill to stand on to make it all fit together.

[@adairbock83]

Please review the rest of the series. The second episode “Time of Titans,” is perhaps the most iconic episode. Personally, I like “Walking with Beast” more, and I hope it gets reviewed in depth like this episode

[@novaraptorus]

Walking with Monsters was always my favorite.

[@10gamer64]

@@novaraptorus Same

[@mouseman3203]

walking with beasts was so good i personally never saw walking with dinosaurs but i wish i did now

[@MellonVegan]

Without this series, I think I wouldn't be a palaeontologist. Love it to death despite its flaws.

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

Tobias Ommer I wanna be a paleontologist buuut working at Walmart is closer to my skill set and I get to see cashiers get yelled at by Karen’s

[@afarensis9720]

So cool! I always wanted to be a palaeontologist, and still follow my interest to this day...but unfortunately my parents would have never let me go down that path :( still, it's very interesting as a hobby

[@1337fraggzb00N]

I also fap to the feces of extinct species.

[@ninetoedlizard6650]

What all have you found?

[@archie4616]

afarensis if you still have the option to become a palaeontologist do it! Your parents have no say in what you do with YOUR life

[@RavenIsAnArtist]

I've watched the series twice, even though it's not completely accurate, it still has something in it that no other series has.

[@wesleydjodo8823]

those are rookie numbers. i watched it at least 10 times mabye even 15.

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

One Random Potato Like amazing CGI

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

wilvred djodo Bro I watched each of the walking with ____ series’s like 3 times a week when I was little

[@NichtNameee]

A remake with modern tech and new scientific knowledge would be really cool.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@NichtNameee The series had major accuracy issues even for its time.

[@dinoxels]

This show is my childhood. Gonna love this series. If you have seen the extra program on the Walking with Monsters dvd, you will know the whole “accuracies” and “just for fun” controversy.

[@BenGThomas]

I don't think I have seen that actually, is it available to watch on the internet at all?

[@dinoxels]

Ben G Thomas I think if you search “The Making of Walking with Monsters” up on KZbin you should get a few parts of the thing.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It's quite an interesting watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKfLamt6iLWBgsU

[@BenGThomas]

Nice, thanks Henry! :)

[@dinoxels]

@@BenGThomas Part 2 starts off with it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5qWkoVqZa-Wg7M

[@thdenwheja756]

It's great that someone on KZbin is finally doing this layout of an analysis, rather than just giving a blanket "not as accurate as it should be." I can't wait for the next few episodes! One thing that should have been brought up was Coelophysis' sleep schedule. The program only ever shows them in daytime, when the relative size of their scleral rings suggests they would have been more nocturnal. EDIT: I was completely wrong on that end. Coelophysis apparently had terrible night vision. Thanks to Cherry Jester for the correction.

[@Cherrywick76]

Actually, the analysis said that Coelophysis was a diurnal (daytime) animal, since they actually have poor night vision. They do have exceptional daytime vision though, having a similar eyesight as a hawk. WWD was right in that respect.

[@thdenwheja756]

@@Cherrywick76 oh, I just looked it up again, and you're right. Thanks for pointing that out. I could have sworn I saw a study showing nocturnal vision somewhere...

[@mmender1590]

Damn, I guess everyone grew up with this as a kid

[@_robustus_]

Nope I was a geezer when it came out but I still found it totally groundbreaking.

[@philipgior3312]

@@_robustus_ I also was a geezer - but it's us geezers who can truly appreciate how groundbreaking it was!

[@Killerwhale-kp2fm]

Damn. You're giving Trey the Explainer a run for his money. But then again, he wasn't gonna do a video on walking with dinosaurs anyway.

[@DinoBot65]

@Hamdon Nut Ok good. I thought I was the only one who thought he was a Feather Nazi.

[@lizardzilla]

@Hamdon Nut it's all based on theory, I agree that stegosaurs and such never had feathers but there is definite proof that most of the dromaeosaurids, troodontidae, and some tyrannosaurids had feathers

[@DinoBot65]

@Yeshvant Gill I just watched HoopsAndDinoMan's most recent video like an hour ago lol

[@General.Noodle]

I stopped watching Trey the explainer after he tried to say that scientist's studies on T. rex not having feathers were incorrect because the skin impressions were from different parts of the body than what he thought feathers were on. It seems he can't fathom the fact that not all dinosaurs had feathers all over their body

[@General.Noodle]

@Fabian MEDINA MEDINA He just comes off as close minded and not open to new ideas and studies on fossils

[@petarmilich8684]

My biggest mistake with this series was that I accidentally watched “Giant of the Skies” first. I was a toddler, ok?!

[@13thmistral]

"sad music with the slow reveal of a dead flying reptile and the narration going like : "In life he was the most magnificent beast ever to take to the wing. He ruled the skies supreme, flying far and wide over the lands of the dinosaurs. This is the story of the last great journey this giant will ever make.

[@petarmilich8684]

13thmistral yep, but remember that pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs.

[@EmmaSpAce111]

@@petarmilich8684 it didn't say he was a dinosaur, just that he ruled over the skies of the dinosaur's lands.

[@nick_a91]

@@13thmistral I cri everytime

[@chrissparks7439]

@@EmmaSpAce111 the guy edited his comment

[@beggedele]

Episode 1: "New Blood" Episode 2: "Age of the Titans" Episode 3: "Cruel Sea" Episode 4: "Giant of the Skies" Episode 5: "Lost Paradise" Episode 6: "Land of Giants" Episode 7: "The Western Interior Seaway" Episode 8: "Wonders of The Desert" Episode 9: "The Migration" Episode 10: "End and rebirth of a Dynasty" Episode 11: "Saving the Dinosaurs-Dinosaur Protection Group"

[@kizombooooo8457]

Thor Thorvald Spirits of an icy world?

[@beggedele]

LeHani Kalumbula no idea :(

[@George_E1907]

there was only 6 episodes?

[@yourdad5799]

@@George_E1907 Yes we know

[@pureone8350]

Sounds like chapters of an epic fantasy book

[@undertheburrow]

Finding this series is so awesome! I've watched Walking With Dinosaurs so many times in my life, but I always figured a lot of it was speculative or inaccurate. If ever the time is found, I'd love a series like this on the Walking with Monsters too

[@uninspired7714]

I still have this on DVD. Man, you’re hitting home with this nostalgia piece

[@BiRios]

DVD? Burned *VHS*

[@yournarrator6428]

@@BiRios damn u where poor

[@marioluigi1523]

VHS here 1998

[@valentinblue1952]

@@BiRios YES! My uncle surprised me with this back when i was really small

[@valentinblue1952]

@@yournarrator6428 Not as poor as your grammar

[@papiaudile]

I still like watching 'walking with' Documentaries.

[@BenGThomas]

Me too :D

[@dyslexiusmaximus]

same

[@cherylwalker2606]

Me to xx

[@Sawrattan]

'Dinosaurs' and 'Monsters' were the best. 'Beasts' spoilt it by giving the animals personal names, plus CGI works less well on mammals.

[@Gekiko7167]

I've just started watching them again 😄

[@TheShuckmeister]

Only 90's kids will remember

[@bentramer682]

I was born in 2001 I STILL watch this

[@azrogdoomhammer7428]

80s too

[@lasemanamayor9396]

Only 1800’s Kids will remember when such Scary Monsters roamed the Land

[@tophatdalekthetophatteddal7402]

Born 2003, still watched this

[@FoggyTheHippo]

I was born in the 2003 and this was my favourite show when I was a kid and I still have the DVD’s to this day.

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

I will never forget that series, it blew my mind as a kid. My dad would just turn it on on the beefy pc and i'd watch it over and over and over again.

[@bezimiennykronikarz]

The show that shaped my childhood is now 20. First damn, I'm old. Second, happy birthday!

[@Anna464]

As someone who adored Walking With Dinosaurs this video is an absolute treat. Such earnest way to tell facts in a easily understood and fun way.

[@2BXD]

This was legit my childhood. I remember getting it from toys r us, rewinding the vhs tape back and buying the dvd when it came out. I even went to walking with dinosaurs live play when it came into town.

[@twinzzlers]

Lol same i went to the live play too but got scared and left when the Trex arrived

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Very well made video, would be great to see more. Currently working on my review of the series, and it should hopefully be out sometime this month. :)

[@SpinozillaSaurian]

The dinosaurs when they hear another "scientific accuracy" video is made: "But these ancient creatures have had their day"

[@govardhanposina17]

Lmao,reminds me of Walking with......Al posting memes

[@1234kalmar]

New blood is such a good episode. It takes places at the end of a mass extiction, yet it's feeling is not a "End of an Era" kind of mood. It is exciting, as throughout the episode, you can feel anticipation build up. "This is the begining of something grand!"

[@bkjeong4302]

New Blood takes place well before the End-Triassic Mass Extinction, and the downfall of the rauisuchians was absolutely nothing like what is depicted here (they were actually better-adapted for hot, arid climates than dinosaurs were, and said climates were something that happened during the height of the Late Triassic, not at the end of it).

[@ThemagpieBird734]

@@bkjeong4302 how are rausuchians “better adapted” than Triassic dinosaurs? The only way I could think of is size and power.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@ThemagpieBird734 The important part is that they were better-suited for surviving harsh droughts than dinosaurs (meaning that the ENTIRE PLOT of New Blood should be the other way around). That’s why there were only smaller dinosaurs outside of high-latitude regions during the Triassic (when you take continental drift into account). The thing dinosaurs were better at was surviving very cold conditions, but this only became an advantage during the end-Triassic Mass Extinction when a worldwide volcanic winter set in; it didn’t give them an inherent advantage without said mass extinction.

[@ThemagpieBird734]

@@bkjeong4302 yes but how exactly? Did they use less water or were more energy efficient? The only way I think the dinosaurs could be hampered in arid environments was that some of them may have had feathers in the triassic period and even then modern desert birds and mammals still had filaments.

[@GunNutproductionsOG]

This came out 20 years ago? Fuck I feel old

[@Big-Chris]

I must have watched this series over hundreds of times starting at when I was a little kid. Still one of my favorites.

[@optimalhazza]

It's been a while since I watched this, I still have it on DVD, the episodes and the behind the scenes I've seen many times, I enjoyed watching the behind the scenes as I got to see how they brought these amazing creatures to life.

[@JacksonWheat]

I think I watched all of them several times when I was little too. They’re great. Please do more.

[@gofou-gogu]

We still have the DVD's of this and 'Walking With Beasts' at our home. I was scared yet fascinated by these prehistoric creatures when O was little. This is so nostalgic! Thank you!

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

This first episode generated hands down the greatest news headline in History: *Who put the Pee in the Postosuchus?*

[@Road_Rash]

I've also loved this series since it came out, but I was 30 at the time...I bought the DVD set & still watch it regularly...the DVDs still play perfectly after all this time too! This is still the best CG dinosaurs outside of a major motion picture, inaccuracies or not. I noticed a lot of the behavior problems too, but still very much enjoy the series...There was one episode that was made after the main 6 called Allosaurus. That was actually the first one I bought & watched...you should cover all the episodes...

[@MrJonnyPepper]

The writing was pretty good too. Most CGI dinosaur shows just have them running around fighting each other, they're more like real characters

[@monstrogoth]

This show is a master piece. Thanks to Tim Haines and the BBC !

[@debeshbhattacharjee3907]

You have done a great job bro...This series was the starting point of my love towards those majestic creatures...Please do the rest of them, I m waiting to see the Ornithocheirus....Thanks a lot for making it...Love from India.

[@mister3horn153]

You should absolutely continue this series. It's wonderful!!

[@dman113]

This series is super nostalgic for me and i grew up watching this series all the time.

[@fang609]

I love this show, still is one of the best prehistoric documentaries made and kick-started a boom in documentary's about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creature's, and I love how they should the animals as animals while also giving them a bit of character and showing pretty much everything that was known at the time. And of course everything else about it is amazing. Also I really like the someone drew comparisons of the original designs with more accurate one's, helped show how much more we know about these amazing animals.

[@gracielaird7208]

I used to watch documentaries like this for nap time but I would hardly ever actually sleep because I was just so in love with dinosaurs. As a 6 year old kid, my parents had dozens of dinosaur documentaries recorded, along with The Land Before Time. I really wish I had followed my dreams and became a paleontologist instead of a nurse 😅

[@RudrakshNaik_77]

Lucky 🥺

[@DangerousDaveSlater]

I want you to cover the whole series, walking with cavemen, monsters, beasts.. all of the spin offs haha cover them all!!! Awesomeness at its best 👌👍😎

[@SamO-ik2cm]

I absolutely loved this series as a kid. Brings back great memories thank you.

[@acanpc333]

Thank you so much for making this! I totally loved this documentary as a kid! It was so cool that it was like watching a show on real life; not in the past. I love any talk about dinosaurs and Walking with Dinosaurs!!

[@rahimjoseph211]

Can’t wait for Giant of the Skies’s Utahraptors in England.

[@titanofserpents4315]

9:29 That sauropod looks like it has peanut butter and jelly on its neck lol. Great video as always!

[@D.Pap_Art]

Those series were my childhood and a major inspiration for me to create paleoart . Please cover all of it , I would love to see it !

[@rameyzamora1018]

For me the greatest thing about WWD was how it enabled me to feel exactly what it would be like to stand among those creatures. The movie "Titanic" similarly was like experiencing the sinking in person. We do not know what the archaic animals of ancient times looked like, & there could have been much variation, so no quibble with the presentations in WWD.

[@CymruJedi]

Please continue this series, it's fantastic to revisit this series. Very well put together video

[@vippsmillennial6336]

There was also this awesome show on ancient mammals called 'Velvet Claw'. And it has the most awesome opening score ever😍

[@BagelBoi4000]

I was reading through the book adaptation of this series a few weeks ago (as i hadn’t read it since i was about 6) and the points you made about the sexual dimorphism and (i think) cannibalism in coelophysis where mentioned there, so i assume they knew about them but didn’t want to include them maybe? Or just didn’t realise at the time...

[@fermintenava5911]

The first one was probably done to save on cgi models. The second was probably a conscious decision, to show the animals as part of an aggressive environment and portray the mechanisms of survival.

[@DerHammerSpricht]

I was given a giant book version of the entire series as a 9 year old. It was one of my favorite books ever, so detailed and the images so lush and colorful and immersive.

[@bitchy-cryptid]

I watched Walking with Dinosaurs so many times as a kid, and i still love it to this day. Thank you for doing this series, I never really thought about the documentary being inaccurate despite how old it is

[@northernskow3443]

Its age is why it is so inaccurate today. A lot of the info given in the series was considered scientifically correct at the time.

[@patrickjack8101]

my favorite part is that intro...the rising sun over that primordial forest...still gives me chills today

[@donaldstraitiff7827]

Talk about giant of the skies and the first incel’s failed search for cloaca.

[@saisameer8771]

That ornithochierus would actually be an elderly Chad.

[@Leo-S-Ellen]

Love this mini-series that u got going on. Pls keep this going and pls do the same with the other branched off series with walking with dinosaurs

[@That1PersonTM]

When I was about 5 years old, I saw this documentary on Netflix, it was about this Allosaurs walking around in a museum, and that moment proved to me, that this was want I want to have in my life. The Balled of Big Al was the first time I saw a realistic dinosaur, I saw that doc about a hundred time, enough to the point were my parents didn't like to watch it anymore. This series helped me understand a lot about these animals, and everything else I saw on dinosaurs was only furthering this, so to the creators of Walking With Dinosaurs, thank, from me and everyone else that you helped to inspire. I might not have been around to watch the show, but the impact it had on me in 2012 was amazing. Thank you WWD, you are the best.

[@mcg1142]

the walking with series and jurassic park are what gave me my love for prehistorc life

[@DaVideoGameBeastr]

I would absolutely love to see you keep going with this series, Walking with Dinosaurs is very near and dear to my heart and I'd love to see what they got right and wrong since paleontology has advanced a lot since.

[@Spongebrain97]

I was pleased to discover that I wasn't the only one who saw this at a early age and loved it. But I was also sad when I found out years later that liopleurodon wasnt actually 80ft long after further studying by scientists

[@Tibovl]

Yeah I still have books lying around with its size being estimated at 26m or something.

[@stevieb5008]

Hey guys, love your work, thank you. My little boy who’s 4.5 years old loves this channel. He got me on to this fascinating subject. I was wondering if you could do some sort of video that explains the dinosaurs types. My little boy said a triceratops was a ceratopsian, diplodocus a sauropod and that there was lots of tyrannosaurs. Could you guys make a some sort of video that’s like a dinosaur vid for noobs and dads lol. Thank you guys, your work is phenomenal :)

[@mrcheesemunch]

Lol I watched this series so much as a kid that when we had a class project on dinosaurs in P2(making me about 6) the teacher would actually refer to me for answers about dinosaur names and whatnot, we watched the videos as part of the project but I'd probably watched every episode 20 times already. It feels like there's just been nothing like it since, it's both thrilling and educational(even if outdated) it's such a good way to relay information, you're not just sitting getting bored at them endlessly droning out details, you're roped in to the little story of whatever dinos are being focused on while you absorb everything else.

[@dianslabbert504]

The thing that always kind of peeved me about Walking with Dinosaurs is how the apex predator always got killed off or loses, but in Walking with Beasts the apex predator of each episode usually got a happy ending.

[@itsahostiletakeover]

Would love to see you do every episode eventually, including the Mammals and Beasts series. Great video!

[@simplyharkonnen]

I’ve got the DVD boxed set. Bless up.

[@BenGThomas]

I actually only have the VHS set!

[@simplyharkonnen]

Ben G Thomas oh man! The set I have came with Walking With Beasts and The Ballad of Big Al as well

[@dyslexiusmaximus]

i've got walking with dinosaurs and The Ballad of Big Al on VHS haha

[@gofou-gogu]

Me tooo!! 😃

[@Gypsygeekfreak17]

Ben G Thomas burly the dvd

[@pastapartyify]

I would love to see all episodes. This was such an amazing series

[@novustalks7525]

This series was my childhood. It made them the creatures feel more real than ever

[@angel-astanfield7939]

This was great. I’d loved to see some more episodes like this please. Thank you 🙏 💕

[@dinovangowan658]

I would love to see you cover the whole series and maybe more.

[@milu3779]

14:34 "Kenneth" XD I guess you have known him since you were a child :)

[@magiv4205]

BBC needs to continue this series! There's so much we haven't explored yet!

[@DerPlaystationZocker]

Dude i had all episodes on VHS!! I had completely forgot about it until this year and wasnt able to find it. Found this vid on accident. love to you mate

[@simonberry4357]

I was like 2 when I first watched it, the final episode made me weep, that tragic ending man

[@whtwolfgames7983]

Me: Oh boy a cool video about dinosaur biology! Ben G Thomas: So here's a bunch of birds pissing all over the place.

[@VultureCulture]

This is one of the most entertainment I've gotten off of youtube in a long time. Looking forward to seeing more 🖤

[@TheOtherNeutrino]

I grew up with a whole set, including the spectacular "Making of" segment that shows just how much effort was put into this series.

[@NecroGangster]

I love all of t he "Walking With" series and I've love to get a more scientifically accurate remake with up to date science and modern special effects. In my opinion Walking With Cavemen looks the worst, specially the australopithecines and Homo habilis which look terrible and fake. Walking With Monsters on the other hand looks the best since it is the most recent one but it still needs a remake because the Paleozoic is super underrated and under explored in popular culture with compared to the Mesozoic and because of that there's still many misconceptions about life at the time. For instance, referring to synapsids as "mammal-like reptiles" which is totally wrong and "proto-mammal" would be a way more accurate definition. And making therapsids look like reptiles when they looked more like mammals (or at least looked more like a mammal than a reptile). Walking With Beasts is the best in terms of scientific accuracy (even though it's not perfect, but not as bad as the others).

[@yrooxrksvi7142]

The first episode of Walking With Beasts is terribly inaccurate. Ambulocetus being moved from Pakistan to Germany, and Gastornis is now believed to have been a herbivore.

[@09dinodino34]

walking with dinosaurs and planet dinosaur were the two lifebloods of my childhood

[@yoboibeerus1387]

What I think is the best thing about the series even if it has some inaccuracies here and there, is that it manage to portray these creatures as animals and realistically make them behave as creatures with soul and not as hunting machines like later Documentaries show dinosaurs like. For example, the 2008 Jurassic Fight Club (even thought the show is in completely different time periods) that says repeatedly that these creatures are blood thirsty and violence.

[@cc-vidsyt]

Please do more episodes like this, I loved watching this show as a young lad and this episode was so interesting

[@pakornwattanavrangkul2550]

Potentially doing the whole walking with series are we? Time to click the red button.

[@zyq9388]

Nobody: This Video: Postosuchus urine

[@gavinmckendry996]

Please continue with the rest of the series if you aren't already. This was my favorite thing to watch when i was a kid and it's nostalgic as all hell to hear you go through everything scientifically and remember things that i had forgotten like how good the soundtrack is. it was also nice to know little facts about the production of the episode too. Thanks for this Ben.

[@menkomonty]

As a kid, the opening scene of this episode terrified me and whenever I re-watched the episode, I would fast forward the tape to avoid that scene in particular. Re-watching it after all of these years, I can't believe that I was so scared of that opening scene.

[@paleoleft]

god I was the exact same haha

[@coldsobanoodle7407]

I love the coelophysis, they are adorable, and they look like they have striped socks

[@chrisc2924]

My grandfather taped each of these episodes and the spinoffs for us when they aired when my brothers and I were kids. Over the following years we would watch them so much we wore through and destroyed the VHS tape. My favorite though was the "Walking with Cavemen" series followed by "Walking with Beasts". I was always far more partial to our own evolution and the more recent evolution of other mammals. I'm excited to see the reviews of the other episodes and hope that eventually you are able to cover much of the series', if not all of their episodes.

[@xtremeemperor]

at 9:05, one could easily mistake the image for being an image of an ostrich that is shocked at the waste it deposits.

[@spinosaurustricycloplots1346]

1999 : An awesome series *20 years later* 2019 : From A to F i rate this series a D

[@mikebarnes7441]

No, BC

[@Frogboyaidan]

It's still good and I used to watch this all the time when I was young .

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Got me obsessed with documentaries and dinosaurs as a child and I hope it gets remade someday

[@kaynebartholomew2994]

I never actually saw this a "Walking With Dinosaurs" but as "Prehistoric Planet" on Discovery Kids. It was amazing at the time and I still rewatch it for nostalgic purposes. Great review, love that others loved this show too.

[@eleanorcarpenter37]

Whenever mom would get annoyed with my constant pestering she'd tell me to find the dinosaurs in the show in my national geographic dinosaur book. I can read good now

[@occamsrayzor]

I've only discovered your channel in the past few days, but every episode I watch has been thoroughly engaging and informative. Thank you for all you do here.

[@1989eol]

"an Episode every week*" *Year This is a really great video series. I love walking with dinosaurs. And your episodes provide a great mix of nostalgia, fact checking and updating. Props any way, however long it might take for new episodes.