Likewise, here in Poland the series aired probably a little later, probably mid 90's. I still remember how impatiently I had awaited each new episode. Fond memories.

same

I had these documentaries on bootleg vhs that my mom recorded because I was a huge dinosaur kid. All 4 parts are on KZfaq, and I watch them occasionally, they never fail to fill me with nostalgia

Good times

Holy fuck I've been trying to find this forever

Me too I saw it from that magic school bus dino game

@flightlesslord2688 I would've been a toddler at the time and didn't really get interested in paleontology until high school

Sadly this came before a certain movie took the world by storm...

​@@gojizard704rugir n’à rien avoir avec le fait qu’ont soit un animal ou pas de plus rexy ne fait que rugir un peu ce nourris d’humains puis partir car elle malheureusement mal nourrir c’est pour sa qu'elle attaques tous se qu'elle peut manger m’importe te qu'elle prédateurs de sa taille ferais la même chose si il était mal nourrir donc arrête de dire que rexy est un monstre

@@laseriedeladilophosaure9246 I used a translator and I'm not saying rexy is a monster. I love Jurassic Park but the fact that most people thought of dinosaurs as blood thirsty roaring monsters was mostly their cloudy vision Jurassic park. I never thought this. I always knew they were animals caught in a bad situation. (Cept the raptors...Those were indeed science fiction.)

Which is probably more scientifically accurate than the Jurassic Park/World film series... at least as far as paleontologists say.

No, people thought of dinosaurs as monsters long before Jurassic Park. If anything Jurassic Park (and the following Walking with Dinosaurs and so on) helped mainstream the idea of dinosaurs just being animals and not just monsters of a lost era. When Megalosaurus was found it was thought of some biblical monster only existing to clean up rotten flesh.

Ceratosaurus

True

I stand corrected.

@@necrofuryan5899 No

Yeah, keep in mind while crocodiles are vicious killers... hippos are worse.

And Walking with Dinosaurs is peak storytelling (when it comes to dinosaur documentaries).

Oye güey The current reconstructions of dinosaurs are horrific and without scientific foundation and have been criticized by paleontologists themselves 🤮

I honestly miss this documentary style

for the time it was made, its actually not bad scientifically, but the animation is spectacular, better than most shown on tv today. dude, the action sequences, they were cooking.

From a scientific point of view we really dont know but from a modern point of view yeah

Before Jurassic Park, this was the best we had! I grew up on this!

I look just before JPVI it's great

Not to mention the sounds the dinosaurs make. They seem pretty accurate to what they might've sounded like in real life.

@@Mac14329 yeah, the T. rex in this documentary makes grunting noises instead of roars.

@@paleoph6168 I mean, technically it does roar. Just not like in say Jurassic Park.

And to add to your comment, I love how despite all the outdated stuff shown the dinosaurs in the animated segment are still depicted as ANIMALS, not movie monsters. That cannot be overlooked. :)

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Interesting

@@myotherchannel2469 I'm going to take that "Interesting" word as a yes. Here are the names of the other National Geographic Documentaries that have yet to be released on DVD in America. "As much as one of the PBS Documentaries including one of the NATURE Programs too, for the moment." "Australia's Improbable Animals" "Foxes of the Kalahari" "The Thunder Dragons" "Dinosaurs On Earth: Then...And Now” (The other Documentary I mentioned before that has its very own animated segments of the Dinosaurs like it's 1992 PBS Predecessor, but a little bit different.) "The Last Feast of the Crocodiles" "The Crocodiles of the Orinoco" Including "Croc Chronicles: Orinoco Loco" as a Bonus Program "The Croc Chronicles Series” Seasons 1 through 5 Dinosaur Double Feature "Dino Death Match" & "T.Rex Ultimate Survivor" "T.Rex Autopsy" "Top 10 Largest Beasts" "Earth: The making of our Planet" AKA The History Of Earth or The Story Of Earth Finally "Kangaroo Comeback" Bonus: "Rhythms of Life" (Doubtful) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNKYe6WB16nFZok.html "Hidden Congo - The Forest Primeval" AKA "Forest Primeval: Heart of Africa" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLuIrKSBzt_QYXU.html "Serengeti Diary" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdSgeruAyqiRdYE.html "Prehistoric Predators: Razor Jaws" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqqGlqdznNXQl3k.html & possibly "African Safari"

I'm here a year later cause there was another animated special(?)/documentary that focused on dinosaurs. I can't remember the name for the life of me but it was about two boys just going about their day and wondering what life would be like with dinos still present. One scene that particularly stuck out to me as a kid was they were sitting on a random park bench and one of them imagined a pteranadon flying towards them, causing him to flip the whole bench backward. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.

There is also a new documentary on Netflix coming out, after scientists believe that large theropods have lips also somewhat like that of sqaumates, such as komodo dragons.

Since 2022.

pareil !

Well, generally speaking it is outdated, but it still holds up pretty well today, and the hand-drawn animations (as featured here) are wonderful. Recommended for those who want nostalgia and a quality made documentary from a special time when we loved dinosaurs - the Dinosaur Renaissance.

We can probably thank Jurassic Park for that dino renaissance.

Les reconstitution sont précis dans les années 90s

Hoy en día, las reconstrucciones no los hacen ver como dinosaurios, sino como monstruos. Y si no fíjate en el Spinosaurus, lleno de imprecisiones. El montaje de este film los hace ver como animales. Los actuales los hacen ver como salidos de un videojuego de monstruos.

True.

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WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT THIS VIDEO??

I absolutely agree! With how much we've improved and better understand these prehistoric animals, I'd love to see a animated updated version!

Yeah, unfortunately back then we didn't have the information to know better, or if there was knowledge, it wasn't widespread enough.

It was much cooler when it had a big horn. Anyways thats what they thought it had back then

You're welcome! Thank you for watching!

Thanks for watching!

That's because the animations were done by Encyclopaedia Britannica, directed by David Alexovich. One of the animators (I assume), John Griffin, posted a video of his works here on KZfaq: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNuXoct8sdfLdKc.html

@@paleoph6168 Very cool!

It's a very unique look I was very young when I saw these specials on PBS and these designs still stick with me even though I know they aren't very accurate today. For example T-Rex is holding his arms wrong for a theropod. They still look very nice detailed but also stylish.

Sounds interesting!

BRUH

The triked to attack the trex's hatchling

@@Supersenior870 The mother Rex was stalking the herd. Then again, it was foolish for the Trike to defend its herd alone.

@@Supersenior870 It was defending its herd!

@@joeguevara1145The Trike would have won if it didn’t suddenly run away for no reason.

​@@joeguevara1145a herd has a "leader" that has to prove it's strength unless it wouldn't have the power to lead anyone that why most of the time only one fights the predator

Peter: B'(

It's like seeing artworks come to life.

@@paleoph6168 it's Great, innit?

Oh yeah that program also used clips from this documentary.

Yes those games were my childhood

These animations were also used in Microsoft Dinosaurs.

The series was screened as "Dinosaur Footprints" here, and the narrator was the late Jill Dando; as you say, there seems to be zero record of the show on IMDB or elsewhere online under that name, and the show is not listed under Dando's credits.

@@davidhowlett7567 So the woman doing the voice over for the UK/British narrated version of this series was Jill Dando? I never knew that, are you sure it's her as it doesn't sound Jill Dando to me, and rather strange she would be doing a voice over for a dinosaur TV series when she would've been busy working for the BBC at the time (probably pre Crimewatch), I think she presented an holiday series, but that was later on I think. If it is her then, like you say, it's strange there's no mention of her under name associated with this series, but I have noticed this with other presenters and TV personalities where they have done other work but there's no mention of it on IMDB, for instance, Chris Packham presented a short children's series on CITV called the Great Dinosaur Trail, but there's no mention of it on his IMDB page. Also I remember a Loch Ness doc in the mid 90s where Mark Halliley narrated it, but there's no mention of this Loch Ness documentary on his IMDB page or even on his own website under the work he's done.

Very sure - I still have it recorded on a deteriorating VHS tape somewhere in my attic, which until I realised the show had a different title in the USA and found recordings on KZfaq was my only means of re-watching it, and she was listed in the credits. When I originally watched and recorded the series, it was shown on Channel 4 (as opposed to Discovery Channel, which I never had access to) and aired immediately after the coverage of the 1994 Tour de France, so it must have been screened twice in the UK. I doubt they'd have dubbed it twice for satellite and terrestrial TV, but you never know.