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Nov 29, 2001 · Land of Giants: Directed by Jasper James, Nigel Paterson. With Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish. Mongolia, 25 million years B.C. This episode follows a young Indricotherium.
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- Jasper James, Nigel Paterson
- 2001-11-29
Nov 15, 2001 · Beasts takes place after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs 65 million years ago depicted in Walking with Dinosaurs, and recreates animals of the Cenozoic with computer-generated imagery and animatronics.
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This third instalment of Walking with Beasts goes back 25 million years ago to meet the biggest land mammals of all time - the Indricotheres. Up to 7 metres tall and weighing 15 tonnes, adults were too big to be eaten by any predator of the time. In fact it is only in the first few years of life that Indricotheres are vulnerable. This programme fol...
As a baby indricothere is being born at night, a pack of smaller Hyaenadonattack it and its mother, though the mother manages to fight them off. A herd of chalicothereemerge from the forest soon after the episode begins, and the narration describes them, and explains some facts about them. They begin to browse from the surrounding trees. The chalic...
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Land of Giants and The Giant Claw sees time-travelling zoologist Nigel Marven travel back in time to encounter and interact with prehistoric life. Marven seeks to solve palaeontological mysteries through direct observation. In The Giant Claw he searches for the obscure dinosaur Therizinosaurus.
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Walking with Beasts, marketed as Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TV Asahi.
Series 1: 3. Land of Giants. 25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the largest land mammals of all...
"Walking with Prehistoric Beasts" Land of Giants (TV Episode 2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
