May 26, 2022 06:50 PM
https://gizmodo.com/prehistoric-planet-a...1848970951
INTRO: Prehistoric Planet is a new five-part series on Apple TV+ that shows the life and times of Cretaceous-era dinosaurs and pterosaurs as never before. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat from 66 million years ago, and recreates the flora and fauna of the time in breathtaking detail, using the most up-to-date research, to accurately depict each life form. That means velociraptors with feathers, T. rex that can swim, and plesiosaurs that swallow stones whole.
The series is narrated by David Attenborough, with music by Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music. The show is filmed in the style of a traditional nature documentary, lending the footage a sense of realism independent from the quality of the computer-generated imagery.
This week, Gizmodo interviewed Darren Naish, a paleozoologist who worked as the show’s chief scientific consultant, and Tim Walker, the series’ producer and showrunner, to discuss the making of Prehistoric Planet. Below is our conversation, lightly-edited for clarity... (MORE - details, interview)
EXCERPTS: Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo: The very first scene of the show opens with a male T. rex swimming with his brood across a body of water...
[...] Darren Naish: [T. rex] appears to have been a habitat generalist and it appears to have eaten a wide variety of animal prey, so we have every reason to think that it would have exploited coastal resources the same as big modern predators do. Its anatomy shows us that it almost definitely would have been a good swimmer...
https://youtu.be/vnoNeMlNeD0
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vnoNeMlNeD0
INTRO: Prehistoric Planet is a new five-part series on Apple TV+ that shows the life and times of Cretaceous-era dinosaurs and pterosaurs as never before. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat from 66 million years ago, and recreates the flora and fauna of the time in breathtaking detail, using the most up-to-date research, to accurately depict each life form. That means velociraptors with feathers, T. rex that can swim, and plesiosaurs that swallow stones whole.
The series is narrated by David Attenborough, with music by Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music. The show is filmed in the style of a traditional nature documentary, lending the footage a sense of realism independent from the quality of the computer-generated imagery.
This week, Gizmodo interviewed Darren Naish, a paleozoologist who worked as the show’s chief scientific consultant, and Tim Walker, the series’ producer and showrunner, to discuss the making of Prehistoric Planet. Below is our conversation, lightly-edited for clarity... (MORE - details, interview)
EXCERPTS: Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo: The very first scene of the show opens with a male T. rex swimming with his brood across a body of water...
[...] Darren Naish: [T. rex] appears to have been a habitat generalist and it appears to have eaten a wide variety of animal prey, so we have every reason to think that it would have exploited coastal resources the same as big modern predators do. Its anatomy shows us that it almost definitely would have been a good swimmer...
https://youtu.be/vnoNeMlNeD0
