Imagine you could go on a safari 66 million years ago. Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, right? Well, thanks to a collaboration between filmmakers and palaeontologists (experts who study the history of life on Earth using fossils), that dream has become a reality. Mike Gunton and Tim Walker are two of the producers behind the hit Apple TV+ dinosaur documentary series Prehistoric Planet. Using groundbreaking special effects, as well as the latest scientific discoveries, this show explores the age of the dinosaurs.
Further, deeper, closer
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