Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Walking With Beasts brought life to six different slices of time within the Cenozoic in a way that had never been seen before, utilising both CGI and animatronic puppetry to explore these remarkable lost worlds. A very worthy sequel series to Walking With Dinosaurs, it's now been more than 24 years since the show first aired. In that time, all kinds of new palaeontological discoveries have been made. So, what are the accuracies and inaccuracies of episode 1 - New Dawn?
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:57 - Opening scene (Late Cretaceous)
2:50 - Messel Pit age
3:33 - Leptictidium
8:57 - Gastornis / Diatryma
21:07 - Ambulocetus
30:41 - Propalaeotherium / Eurohippus
35:09 - Godinotia / Darwinius
43:14 - Giant ants (Titanomyrma)
45:30 - Eurotamandua
49:13 - Creodont (Lesmesodon)
50:46 - Messel crocodylomorph
52:25 - Messel snake
52:52 - Frog and damselflies
53:22 - The Messel Environment
57:07 - Overall thoughts
1:00:09 - Ending
Walking With Beasts brought life to six different slices of time within the Cenozoic in a way that had never been seen before, utilising both CGI and animatronic puppetry to explore these remarkable lost worlds. A very worthy sequel series to Walking With Dinosaurs, it's now been more than 24 years since the show first aired. In that time, all kinds of new palaeontological discoveries have been made. So, what are the accuracies and inaccuracies of episode 1 - New Dawn?
Thank you to Haider Jaffri for creating the Palaeoart for this video! Follow him here: instagram.com/ha1der_jaffri?igsi=MW91bHY0bWs0cm1iNg==
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Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Lll3gExzMT43zlRP0w65hoZ7_sfZkI7MssuLiiCgdcQ/edit?usp=sharing
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:57 - Opening scene (Late Cretaceous)
2:50 - Messel Pit age
3:33 - Leptictidium
8:57 - Gastornis / Diatryma
21:07 - Ambulocetus
30:41 - Propalaeotherium / Eurohippus
35:09 - Godinotia / Darwinius
43:14 - Giant ants (Titanomyrma)
45:30 - Eurotamandua
49:13 - Creodont (Lesmesodon)
50:46 - Messel crocodylomorph
52:25 - Messel snake
52:52 - Frog and damselflies
53:22 - The Messel Environment
57:07 - Overall thoughts
1:00:09 - Ending
