I love this miniseries. Nigel is such a good actor here, and his enthusiasm for the natural world is truly infectious. The special effects are incredible for the time/budget, and some shots still look fantastic today. The soundtrack as well is amazing, Ben Bartlett really hit it out of the park as he always does. In case this essay hasn’t made it obvious, I love this program, and it really inspired a newfound appreciation in prehistoric marine life for me.

@HodgePodge7

8 ай бұрын

Exact same here. Thanks for watching!

@jurassicswine

8 ай бұрын

@@HodgePodge7 I really love your reviews. And now that you reviewed all of the Walking With series… I wonder what’s next?

@HodgePodge7

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words! I still need to do Walking with Monsters and from there, I have a few others in mind ;)

@jurassicswine

8 ай бұрын

@@HodgePodge7 I forgot about Monsters whoops

@canonbehenna612

2 ай бұрын

Hope forgotten bloodlines help him make a comeback

I saw the notification for this and had a stroke

@Abble_vs_the_world_

5 ай бұрын

R.i.p. Died of Cabbages.

I think the reason why we have saturated purple, green, and red filters for three of the seven deadly seas is to show the deadliest sea for their specific episode. Purple for the Devonian, Green for the Pliocene, and Red fittingly for the Cretaceous.

The Triassic "coelurosaur" is actually easy to explain. Haines and co were still following the outdated notion that most small theropods, including coelophysids, are coelurosaurs. The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life, which came out two years later (2005), still calls Coelophysis a coelurosaur. So yeah, this animal is just a hypothetical European coelophysid/very basal theropod.

Apparently the megalodon's fin moving backwards was such a deal that the spanish version just played the shot backwards

@fraskf6765

24 күн бұрын

Is this a joke?

To be fair, evidence of conflict between tylosaurs doesn't _necessarily_ exclude the possibility they could have behaved socially. Plenty of social animals have extensive evidence of inter-species conflict.

1:26:28 Apparently, there was actually meant to be a scene where the Xiphactinus that was circling Nigel was attacked by one of the Mosasaurs That’s probably what that scene in the intro was supposed to represent, and also why Nigel said “There’s still blood in the water”

In the gaming beaver video where he interviewed Nigel Marven at one point Nigel said "they found suture lines in the tail so they new tanystropheus could drop it tail"

If there was ever a remake of this, this would be my list: -Ordovician Winneshiek Shale (Or Trenton group) -Triassic Favret formation -Carboniferous Mammoth Cave -Jurassic Oxford Clay (unsure if this should be before or after Devonian) -Devonian Cleveland Shale -Early Permian Copacabana formation -Eocene Valley of the whales -Early Cretaceous Paja formation -Miocene Pisco formation -Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk

@richie_0740

3 ай бұрын

my list would be: 7. Silurian era waters with aecutiramus and pterygotus, maybe an appereance from brontoscorpio 6. Eocene era waters in egypt, with the many shark species and basilosauruses, particularly basilosaurus itself and cynthiacetus 5. Devonian era waters with threats from the giant lobe finned fish and dunkleosteus 4. Triassic era waters in the americas, threats included cymbospondylus youngorum, notosaurus, giant shonisaurus and shastasaurus 3. Jurassic Oxford clay, included in the threats were the (accurately downsized) liopleurodons, pliosaurus funkei, ichtyosaurus and various sharks 2. Miocene era waters in peru, threats including giant otodus sharks, various macroraptorial physeteroids like zygophyseter, and then theres the two clashing giants with megalodon on the shallower water and livyatan patrolling the open seas 1. cretacoeus era waters in the inland sea, plays out like the episode wanted it to be except that the science were updated and the appereance of both tylosaurus and mosasaurus hoffmani

@trilobite3120

3 ай бұрын

@@richie_0740 Very good list. For 7, the closest would be the Bertie group, but that doesn't have Brontoscorpio, only the significantly smaller Proscorpius (and Palaeophonus?). I also don't really know about any fossil beds with both Dunkleosteus and large sarcopterygiians, although the Milwaukee formation does contain both the large sarcopterygiian Onychodus and the decently large placoderm Eastmanosteus. The Zhuganpo Formation would probably be the closest match for your Triassic list, although the exact species would be different.

Just one interesting comment: The name "The Ancient Mariner" should come from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797-1798.

Is there ever a possibility that they'll remake this amazing nostalgic documentary with updated discoveries recently published? I'd love to see that.

Bloomin' brilliant video, up to your usual high standard of entertainment, education and in-depth analysis as always. Best BBC Sea Monsters review video on KZread. Stellar work. Need I say more? 😂 Contender for my favourite Walking With alongside Beasts. Always had so much nostalgia for it and great memories of watching it. Everything is done so perfectly. Release the UK DVD damn it!

The last name of a man whose response to being called out for inaccurately reconstructing a prehistoric animal was spending literally over a decade pursuing the petty aim of out-doing the person that ridiculed him, resulting in long-lasting damage to the field of paleontology as a whole, was "Cope"? If that happened in a work of fiction, I wouldn't called the writer a hack.

There is nothing more dangerous nor frightening than Hell's aquarium

@miquelescribanoivars5049

8 ай бұрын

*Laughs in Pacific during the Miocene*

@sangheiliwarrior86

6 ай бұрын

@@miquelescribanoivars5049 Why?

@miquelescribanoivars5049

6 ай бұрын

@@sangheiliwarrior86 Otodus megalodon, Otodus chubutensis, Livyatan melvillei, Hemipristis serra, Carcharodon hastalis/hubbeli, Alopias grandis, multiple species of Paraotodus, multiple species of Galeocerdo, Acrophyseter, Brygmophyseter, multiple species of Squalodontidae and Kentriodontidae, Pontolis, Acrophoca, Piscogavialis, Xiphichthyis... That's a list of macropredatory marine animal with weights of over 500 Kg and is probably incomplete. Still unconvinced?

@sangheiliwarrior86

6 ай бұрын

@@miquelescribanoivars5049 Didn't know megalodon and livyaran lived in the miocene

I think what the Triassic segment in Sea Monsters, but also WWD suffers from is brevity. The film is trying to explain the origination of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and certain marine reptiles in one go (namely them all originating in "THE" Triassic). They don't have the time to go to multiple Triassic ages and areas and therefore cram everything into one episode. I think it's possible that is also where 230 MYA comes from, it's both too young to be Besano FM and too old to be home to early pterosaurs and coelophysoids (Middle to Late Norian). P.S. caudal autotomy in Tanystropheus is impossible. Animals which can perform autotomy have specialized caudal centra, which Tanystropheus doesn't have. The head shape is also updated, but they couldn't know that at the time.

Can’t wait for you to wrap up the series with Walking with Monsters. Are we having to wait 2 years so it’s “20 years” after it’s airing, or will we experience it in 2024 at some point?

In Finland, the series was called Walking With Dinosaurus: Sea Monsters and on Finnish television it was shown just under the title Walking With Dinosaurus, which caused a lot of confusion with the original WWD series.

Your videos are incredibly enjoyable, I get excited every time after seeing a notification from you.

@HodgePodge7

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words! It really means a lot.

Let's goooo. Recently found your channel and the first new video is a banger

I will say I saw chased by sea monsters before walking with beasts and I'm pretty happy for it. The actual luring of the basilosaurus and everything else really was well executed when your going in blind. Plus it's light covering of basilosaurus set up whale killers more fleshed out portrayal of them.

wow. what a great video! I greatly appreciate the amount of detail you go into here especially behind the scenes. its really great to learn so much about my favorite Dino doc from my childhood. :)

I looked up ‘Ancient Realms’ and that channel has some incredible music. If that is the friend you were referring to, let him know that I was disappointed that I couldn’t find him on Spotify because I don’t really listen to music on KZread. Either way, thanks for the introduction to this channel :)

@speedracer2008

3 ай бұрын

Ancient Realms, Hodgepodge and The Arc Minister did a commentary of the 2001 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. It's a lot of fun to listen to.

Amazing review !! I'd also add the giant aquatic snakes Pterosphenus and Palaeophis, (both also known from Africa) to the Eocene segment, for their impressive lengths and peculiar ecology ! (Ps: thanks for featuring some of my work, it was a pleasant surprise!)

Took me way too long to discover your channel, wonderful review of my favourite Walking With sereis! You're very informative and relaxing to listen to.

@HodgePodge7

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I'm a big fan of your videos too!

@PaleoEdits

2 ай бұрын

​@@HodgePodge7 Thanks man, that's cool to hear! :) By the way, if you do end up doing a review of Life On Our Planet, then would you please consider picking apart some of the earth history and extinction events? Most reviewers of LOOP seem to have ignored that aspect so far, or even go so far as to claim that "at least the extinction events were good". Just to give an example with some of the issues: during the end-Ordovician extinction they attributed the global dying on literal hypothermia rather than things like changing sea levels and subsequent loss of shallow reefs. Nor was the deep sea a safe haven as the showed claimed - far, far from it. Life also bounced back to a very similar ecological state in the early Silurian, but instead they make up this silly narrative that the extinction dethroned the great cephalopod "dynasty" in favour of the fish "dynasty". I couldn't think of a worse scenario to throw in that "dinosaur-kpg-mammal" story beat. The Devonian extinction(s!) was(were) also extremely wacky in the show, but I'll spare you the ramble.

Another perfect video as always ❤

1:29:22 Not to mention that at least two species of placoderm that reached around 4 metres, those being Dunkleosteus and Gorgonichthys, are known from the Cleveland Shale, as well as the smaller but still masaive Holdenius, plus the shark cousins Cladoselache and Ctenacanthus which reached sizes comparable to humans.

Man, if they had done this show 5 years after its release, they could have featured Livyatan and O. megalodon as the dual nightmares Nigel has to deal with in the Miocene oceans.

40:10 I did wish the Devonian had a bit more build up like the Basilosaurus and Meg segments.

I'm pretty sure Chased by Sea Monsters is the reason I developed thalassophobia later in my life.

Thank you for making this, this show was such an important part of my childhood. I was obsessed

This programme literally ignited my passion for dinosaurs and specifically prehistoric sea reptiles. I love Nigel Marven so so much and he really brings this show to life. I love the liopleurodon segment so much that I have that specific liopleurodon tattooed on my arm. My absolute dream would be for them to revisit these episodes and do new ones! A brilliant vid talking about my favourite show

Frankly I have to say the Miocene and Triassic got done a major disservice here when they had more and bigger predators than anything the Late Cretaceous or the Late Jurassic had to offer.

Could saltwater crocodiles evolve into basically another "Thalattosuchus" millions of years in the future? 🤔

@canonbehenna612

5 ай бұрын

Yes if most whales and sharks go extinct

Brilliant video

Im anxious for the dinosaur planet review

To be honest, I think that Dunkleosteus would actually be more dangerous to humans than Otodus megalodon, in large part BECAUSE the former was smaller than initially estimated, not in spite of it. Dunkleosteus would be more likely to consider humans a food source than megalodon, and usual methods for repelling sharks wouldn’t work on Dunkleosteus due to its armour-plating. Even its eyes had built in armour!

I am new to your content also love dinosaurs ! You should review some dinosaur games ! Path of titans is amazing and the isle and prehistoric kingdom ect would be so fun to see

Nigel mentioned in the Gaming Beaver video that he would still get emails from kids saying "You were cruel to that Tanystropheus!", and he that he "fancied Laura Dern" from Jurassic Park for a bit.😁😁

@anthonyt219

10 күн бұрын

Laura Dean was really hot back then imo

Great video!

Still one of my all time favorite TV docos. Even though it's out of date, I still like to listen to it while I drop off to sleep at times.

45:31 the discovery channel version with Chris cook actually corrects this and clarifies that the Eocene will end with a mass extinction. In fact Cook says it several times throughout the segment.

I really do think the Walking with/Chased by series is hard carried by its soundtracks.

i love this series so much 😭 the concept of the series is so cool, the special effects are amazing, and nigel made little kid me dream about being a paleontologist

1:29:22 wasn't that a suction feeder of crustaceans or something? I can't quite remember.

Wasn't tanystropheus determined to not be a swimming animal in the strictest sense, instead acting like those storks which wait near bodies of water to feed on fish?

7:12 Has anyone tried printing that recreated time map? I personally think it would be a very cool thing to have

31:59 correct me if I’m wrong, but the tanystopheus is also oversized, no?

I believe that the mosasaur chosen was tylosaurus because for a time, the now defunct genus "hainosaurus" was believed to be 15-17m long. I believe hainosaurus is now considered to be tylosaurus.

we love a review as long as the show itself

1:25:40 Just wanna say that evidence of intra-specific combat is not evidence that an animal was not social or didn't live in a group. I mean, just look at us. Humans fight all the time, and we kill our own species by the thousands each year. And when you look at solitary animals like tigers or snow leopards, individuals primarily avoid each other and stick to themselves. But there is probably more recorded cases of lions killing each other. So evidence of inter-specific combat could be argued as a sign of social behavior. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that mosasaurs were 100% animals that lived in family structures but it is important to note that we shouldn't immediately declare an animal as solitary just because there is evidence of members fighting/killing their own kind.

Have you ever heard of ABZÛ? It's an adventure game where you take on the role of a diver in a vast ocean, filled with marine life and submerged ancient ruins. In Chapter 6, you get to explore an undersea temple inhabited by various extinct sea animals from different time periods. I think it's supposed to be a metaphor for the afterlife or something like that. 🦈

Take a drink every time Hodge mentions a prehistoric Whale that’s not in this show. 🍺🍷🥃 🍹

13:24 I think that the current consensus is that they were more closely related to arachnids than to horse shoe crabs, being a sort of in-between group between the horse shoe crabs and arachnids.

Those wrong placed dinosaurs and pterodactyl might not be in the world place since Pangea was still a single landmass during the Triassic 🤔.

1:07:40 I think the Hybodus should be referred to as Asteracanthus. It fits the body plan current reconstructions of the latter taxon use and was present in the late Jurassic waters of England.

15:08 Trilobites ate just about everything, not just detritus. Some were active carnivores, and there were even free swimming forms like Carolinites.

Anyone wish there was a mass market or collectable version of the time map made?

35:14 The largest complete D. terrelli specimen was estimated at 3.9 metres and the largest was estimated at 4.1.

25:47: I actually own that book, so, thanks for bringing it up.

Ngl the cgi was amazing at the time. I went back a rewatched it on KZread recently and I'm still kinda impressed

Any link to Ancient realms Time Map Please

39:44 I wouldn't be surprised if they were. I think it's a pretty common behaviour in fish.

First of all Walking with dinosaurs haven't feature mosasaurus and hesperornis and walking with beasts Haven't put Arsinotherium megalodon and odobenocetops on it And the ordivician and Devonian for walking with monsters seven most dangerous sea in Prehistoric times

@kylecollier7569

8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty certain he knows that... Not to sound insulting.

I used to rent this from my local library all the time loved it way more than walking with dinosaurs lol

I would have to put Modern day Earth's oceans (maybe before Human industrial or civilisation) ahead of the Ordovician, due to the fact even today in our Ocean's we got many Animals who would be considered more dangerous than those found in Ordovician. I would put the Pliocene above the Devonian due to the fact during the Devonian even the biggest predators where still only within Great White shark size for The Dunk for example. while the plate jaws are a threat, at some point the sheer Size of Megalodon, Levitan and the other super sized sharks and raptorial Whales just make the Devonian pale in comparison. So I would have to put the Pliocene above Devonian, especially since we seem to know more 'threats' that existed in the Pliocene than we do in the Devonian.

Please review giant monsters with Jeff corwin.

34:58 And a peice of the spinal column and the base of a fin.

11:46 Not exactly. Some similar looking relatives are known from then, like Limuloides, but they're still very different.

34:42 This is now under question as the paper describing it has a potentially inaccurate model of jaw movement.

Dakosaurus could have been a threat for Nigel to deal with in the Jurassic seas.

NIGEL MARVINNNNN THE GOATT

19:08 LOOP does depict it with more accurate behaviour, and the only thing the Sea Monsters version has over it is the pinhole eye (that I can tell).

nice

52:24 Recently scientist found out that megalodon have a longer length and a skinnier body form than the great white

That recon dive showed why being the camera man makes you impervious to hard.

Could it be Tyrannosaurus mcraensis?

@daliborjovanovic510

4 ай бұрын

Well, no. T. mcraensis wasn't named until 20 years after this series aired. Self-explanatory (and it's several million years younger than this segment anyway).

@SPRINK_GABY

Ай бұрын

It's a Gorgosaur for the illustration

Sea Monsters is the best spin off to the Walking with Series way better then Cavemen.

@canonbehenna612

4 ай бұрын

And the terrible movie

@dragonzilla6482

4 ай бұрын

@@canonbehenna612 You mean Walking with Dinosaurs the 3D movie

@canonbehenna612

4 ай бұрын

@@dragonzilla6482 correct that film ripped off the original trilogy

@dragonzilla6482

4 ай бұрын

@@canonbehenna612 More than ripped off, it insulted the whole series not only that but it also made Pachyrhinosaurus my least favourite Dinosaur.

I named my dog after Nigel Marven.

@piecheese1214

3 ай бұрын

Also, Nigel is a horrible time traveler in this. He just leaves behind the lifeboat in the Ordovician when it gets swarmed by the sea scorpions, and he contaminates the water there with his blood, releasing microbes from the future!

🦑🐬🐟🐳🦈🐊🐢

Its kind of hilarious that while this is meant to be educational, the whole Chased by Dinosaurs series is moslty prehistoric creatures getting jumped by Nigel Marven.

20:22 I had the same idea

I remember watching this. I thought it was fun and interesting, but did think of it as 100% scientifically accurate.

Nigel Marvin my lover

Apparently Richard Dawkins dislikes, or at least disliked, Marvin's docs.

10:10 Military police police the military, not you

44:38

Whale Killer is set in Pakistan, not Egypt

@kylecollier7569

8 ай бұрын

Even though it says it technically takes place in Pakistan, both the book and episode switch from Pakistan to Egypt in the general area of the Tethys Sea as the animals from the mangrove segments are known from the Fayum Deposits in Egypt even if it isn't described as such.

Nigel marvin..........

t rex didnt roar.