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Horizon

In 2000, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery, explaining how birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, a deeper investigation put a question mark over everything.

Horizon

Exploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while questioning whether they engaged in a fight against the Argentinosaurus.

Prehistoric Autopsy

Anatomist Professor Alice Roberts and biologist Dr George McGavin go on an extraordinary evolutionary journey to meet our ancient ancestors. They start with our closest prehistoric relative - a Neanderthal. To make the reconstructions as accurate as possible Alice and George have travelled the globe, gathering evidence from the world's leading scientists.

Natural World

The world's biggest beasts have always captured the imagination, but whilst being big can have its advantages, it also comes with sizeable challenges. Take the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, whose huge appetite means it must take on prey ten times its weight, or the tallest animal of them all: the giraffe.

Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives

Part 1/4. David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death.

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur

David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.

Walking with Beasts

Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons! The only threat to an adult would have been the hyaenodon which was the size of a rhino and had jaws that could crush a rock.

Walking with Beasts

The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne delnotherium.

Walking with Beasts

Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.

Walking with Beasts

Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting for them on their return journey - Neanderthals.

The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs

Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.

The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs

Here, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon got archaeologists into dangerous water.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.

Archaeology: A Secret History

Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur

David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.

Science of Walking With Beasts

This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet.

Science of Walking With Beasts

A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.

Walking with Beasts

Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land.

Walking with Beasts

A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.

Walking with Beasts

The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne delnotherium.

Walking with Beasts

Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.

Walking with Beasts

Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting for them on their return journey - Neanderthals.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites

Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites

Featured species are the ophthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites

Featured species are the Leaellynasaura and the Tyrannosaurus.

Walking with Dinosaurs

In a time when monstrous creatures ruled the earth, South America was the land of the giants. Nigel Marven walks among these gigantic creatures, on a quest to witness the largest predator bringing down the largest prey.

Walking with Dinosaurs

Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call Big Al.

Walking with Dinosaurs

This scientific detective story traces the evidence for Big Al the allosaur's existence, using clues from climate change studies, forensics, and fossil records to bring him back to life.

Walking with Dinosaurs

Nigel Marven journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia to track the owner of the largest claws of all time, the Therizinosaurus. His adventure yields a series of surprising clues, a nest, footprints, dung, and more.

How to Build a Dinosaur

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour.

The Lost World

Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs.

The Lost World

The explorers find themselves trapped on the plateau high above the Amazon jungle, surrounded by prehistoric horrors.

Horizon

Exploring the idea of human coexistence with dinosaurs. Had the species not disappeared from the face of earth ages ago, keeping them as pets could have been a possibility.

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur

David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.

How to Build a Dinosaur

Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour.

Horizon

Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard.

Iceman: Mummy From the Stone Age

The discovery of a 5,000-year-old male mummy in the Austrian Alps has enabled scientists to re-create a vanished world.

Horizon

The earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs.

The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs

Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.

Horizon

According to new evidence, the Woolly Mammoth went on roaming until about the time the Pyramids were built.

Journeys From the Centre of the Earth

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how earthquakes and faults have shaped human history by bringing both life and death.

Journeys From the Centre of the Earth

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how rocks have influenced the architecture of the Mediterranean, from the pyramids of Egypt to the squares of Ancient Greece.

Journeys From the Centre of the Earth

Tracing the history of cave paintings.

Journeys From the Centre of the Earth

Dr Iain Stewart examines how the rocks beneath our feet played a crucial role in determining the beliefs of ancient civilisations.

Journeys From the Centre of the Earth

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how ancient civilisations learned to exploit the water around them, from the flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Journeys From the Centre of the Earth

Dr Iain Stewart looks at how salt has played a crucial role in the history of the Mediterranean, from the ice ages to the preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt.

Lost Cities of The Ancients

A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place.

Lost Cities of The Ancients

In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.

Lost Cities of The Ancients

This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes - one a unique form of hieroglyphs with which we can recreate the lost world of the Hittites.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a rare tomb excavation in the Valley of the Kings which has never been seen before on television.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of `Tutmania', when the Western world went crazy for all things Egyptian.

Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy

Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'.