DEATH OF A DYNASTY! Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) | Fan Commentary

Let's Watch Walking With Dinosaurs! Moving on to The Final Episode, Episode 6: Death Of A Dynasty we'll watch, discuss and just generally have a fun communal experience. Remember to hit the like button and comment down below on the talking points from the end of the video.

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DEATH OF A DYNASTY! Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) | Fan Commentary

ABOUT WALKING WITH DINOSAURS
Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by BBC Natural History Unit. The series first aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1999 with narration by Kenneth Branagh. The programme explores ancient life of the Mesozoic Era, portraying dinosaurs and their contemporaries in the style of a traditional nature documentary.
In this series we'll watch all of the Classic Walking With Dinosaurs Series with a fan commentary and mini-review.

For Adventure!

[goodbad]

Now to Walking with monsters, Walking with Beasts, Walking with Dinosaurs: Allasaurus and Chased by Dinosaurs

[SirRichardOwen]

I have a few suggestions:


Dinosaur Planet
Prehistoric Park (and other Nigel Marvin dinosaur documentaries)
Maybe even Primeval?


Walking with monsters is also good

[sareakin]

Damn. 27 years old here and my eyes still burnt at Kenneth’s “This is the end... of the age of the Dinosaurs” *dramatic music*
Thank you for these videos man! It’s been great getting to relive my childhood like this

[hypn]

Ballad of Big Al definitely. Hoping you'll do The Giant Claw/Land of Giants too.

[persianking]

Fun Facts!:

1. It is no longer believed that female T. Rexes were bigger than the males, as the evidence for sexual dimorphism has weakened considerably. Of the recovered specimens, only one (B-rex as she is called) is definitely female, as soft tissue was preserved that is only found naturally in female birds during ovulation; for the record, SUE actually does have a chevron bone, which was thought to only happen within males. Either way, the size differences may simply be due to geographic location and age.

2. Anatotitan should be Edmontosaurus.

3. Azhdarchids, and pterosaurs in general, were actually thriving up until the K-T event. Quetzalcoatlus in particular was much more like a giraffe-sized stork than it was depicted here.

4. T.Rexes (or rather, Tyrannosaurs) may have been pack hunters! Or at least capable of communal hunting, though the evidence of this is fairly weak for the time being.

5. Of course, T.Rex should be partially feathered (not completely as it turns out!)

[JurassicClark]

Yo BiS, just wanted to say I love this series and I've been missing it when you missed weekends. I guess I'm not with the "in" crowd, but sitting on the back deck torching a couple bongpacks to your commentary while visualizing the series in my imagination has been one of the best experiences on your channel. I hope you'll continue with the commentaries for the other Walking With... series AND finish the Jurassic franchise as well. Much love and appreciation, please keep your head up!

[MaxLivingstone]

Well done on finishing the series.🙂 Thank you for these reactions. I've loved watching the series with you. And it's quite a coincidence that you released the final episode on a Monday, because that was the day that "Walking with Dinosaurs" first aired back in 1999!😀

[liekeze]

T. rex was famous long before Jurassic Park was a thing. I highly doubt that Jurassic Park did much to influence the popularity of Tyrannosaurus. However, Velociraptor was a relatively unknown animal before Jurassic Park made it an inaccurately popular.

[ethanclark]

I'm pretty sure that many scientists expect that the dinosaurs where in decline at the time of the kt mass Extinction but it was more of a depression that they would have recovered from had the asteroid not hit

[thdenwheja]

Ooh, I think you'll really enjoy the Ballad of Big Al. I think I'd call that the best WWD entry.

[cluelessclyde]

Do more of these please, I looked forward to watching each episode when you uploaded them! Would watch the new episode(s) while I eat my dinner ^~^

[SnidgetAsphodel]

I love this and can't understand how anyone would dislike it. Such nostalgia!

[lukey]

Came back to rewatch these and i forgot how much I enjoyed this simple watch along series

[hypn]

30:40 Well there's a documentary called Last Day of the Dinosaurs that shows a lot more of the post-asteroid impact

[krazyfan]

that moment when the episode starts buffering in the background and unsyncs the whole thing -_-

[timberwolfe]

How did I forget to actually watch this?? Well, I'm here now.
The coolness and the sadness! Gonna give the fave of the episode award to mama rex.
I do hope there are more movie weekends like this in the future~

[dthompson]

@bestinslot - there was a brilliant making-of documentary that’s now hard to get hold of. The interactions between the dinosaurs and their environment (dust clouds, water splashes) were made by technicians on-location, throwing objects around, pulling things on strings, or with blue morph-suits, and then they were digitally edited out and replaced with the CGI dinos. IMO. The fact so much of this was filmed on real locations (such as this episode in ash plains of Chile) with either puppets or filming shots to edit the CG dinos in later is the reason this looks so convincing compared to later shows like Planet Dinosaur.

[masteroftheassassins]

Ignore the haters. I absolutely love your videos

[Edino-trni]

I think you should probably watch the other Walking with series, but I think you should definitely watch Primeval eventually. I know you can watch it on Hulu

[persianking]

Personally, I don't think it's too far a stretch to think that T. Rex had the capacity to roar (as almost ALL large terrestrial mammals actually can and do roar). The problem is is that vocalizations are incredibly complex and arguably the fastest thing (for lack of a better term) to change and evolve over time, even if the species in question doesn't otherwise change much. And to compete for the right to mate, warn of predators, communicate with other members, and so on, each species has its own specially evolved vocal chords for doing so. It's easier to deduce what mammals sounded like millions of years ago simply because of closely related descendants occupying the same ecological niches, but it's still not completely guaranteed that Paraceratherium sounded exactly like a modern rhino.

Truth be told, I don't think there's any way we could know for certain what dinosaurs sounded like.