2001 Walking With Beasts - Ep 1 New Dawn
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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. The sequel to the 1999 miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts explores the life in the Cenozoic era, after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, particularly focusing on the rise of the mammals to dominance.
New Dawn is the first episode in the Walking with Beasts series. It depicted the Messel pits at the late Paleocene-early Eocene epochs 49 Million years ago. This episode deals with the beginning of the Cenozoic and the beginning of mammal evolution, as mammals struggle to survive alongside such early menaces as giant flightless birds and insects. The first episode is set sixteen million years after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. Birds, a surviving lineage of dinosaurs, such as the giant carnivorous Gastornis,[c] rule the world and mammals still remain very small. The episode explores the forerunners of later lineages of Cenozoic animals and centers on a family of shrew-like Leptictidium. Other animals featured include Propalaeotherium, an early forerunner of horses, and Ambulocetus, an amphibious ancestor of the whales.
New Dawn is the first episode in the Walking with Beasts series. It depicted the Messel pits at the late Paleocene-early Eocene epochs 49 Million years ago. This episode deals with the beginning of the Cenozoic and the beginning of mammal evolution, as mammals struggle to survive alongside such early menaces as giant flightless birds and insects. The first episode is set sixteen million years after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. Birds, a surviving lineage of dinosaurs, such as the giant carnivorous Gastornis,[c] rule the world and mammals still remain very small. The episode explores the forerunners of later lineages of Cenozoic animals and centers on a family of shrew-like Leptictidium. Other animals featured include Propalaeotherium, an early forerunner of horses, and Ambulocetus, an amphibious ancestor of the whales.