Can we just appreciate the fact that this entire series is available on CZcams in HD, without audio changes and without the video in a tiny box in the corner?
The decision to cast an actual animal show host like Nigel was a really smart move. If you watch him in his other show, (looking for real animals), he's got the exact same personality/way of talking as he does in these "mockumentaries".
I used to watch this all the time, I own this and prehistoric park on dvd, they are old, but very informative about prehistoric eras, even though they were made for an younger audience
Lots of comments about the CGI (which was definitely incredibly impressive for its time and still looks good today), but I also want to talk about the acting/commitment to believability as a "real" documentary. I was always fully convinced by his reactions as a kid that he was genuinely interacting with these creatures. Plus the conversations/interactions with the boat crew and camera men really help sell this series.
My personal favourite is when their arguing about the megalodon, feels like every documentary has that so having it here sells it as a real thing even if it’s obviously not
@@parkersaurus2205 Actually, Paleontology is dedicated to the study of dinosaurs and ancient animals, Archeology is the study of ancient humans and cultures. They can still study fossils, they’re just generally dedicated more towards humans. As such, Nigel Marvins boat would actually fall under their jurisdiction. Also, it’s a joke
The level of detail and preparation they made to ensure it was like a nature documentary with animals that act like animals is still phenomenal to this day. Nigel Marvin works perfectly as a prehistoric Steve Irwin, Anglosphere host.
@@parkersaurus2205 Indeed. Think this also did Steve proud since one of his goals was to show animals aren’t bloodthirsty monsters but just trying to survive.
The ending always made me think that they either died at sea, time travelers that were never able to share their findings, or that it was a setup for a sequel. Damn, childhood was awesome.
The ending always creeped me out to be honest. Like, they are all asleep, and the radar starts picking up a couple of Mossasaurs... Okay, no big deal... Then we see the radar again, and GOD that is terrifying. The entire radar is just covered with Mossasaurs, all aiming at the boat. And like, you understand that Nigel and the rest of the guys may not be all that save in their boat after all.
When I was a little kid this was my favourite thing on TV. Loved it so much I drew a picture of me diving with Nigel, saying I wished I could come along with him when I was grown up. He actually replied by sending me a signed photo book of Sea Monsters, saying he would love for me to come along. Still one of my most prized possessions
@@harryjfp4480 That's awesome! I remember when I was obsessed with these BBC docs, (like we all were), my mum sent Nigel a message saying something like "My child never wants you to retire" or something like that, and he thought that was very funny.
Most time travel media: *moving a chair results in seven wars and 40 major changes* Sea monsters: *rides cameroceras, tosses sea scorpion, leaves inflataboat behind, refuses to elaborate, continues to their next destination*
1:25:34 This is probably one of the most suspenseful cliffhangers in all of history, it really feels like there's no hope left after this, I really wish they had a short, fourth episode that shows their battle and escape with the Mosasaurs, otherwise the "They are doomed" argument still lives to this day.
That explains why the narrator ended with: "The worst was over...almost." I also would have liked to have seen a fourth episode to see how they got out of that terrifying situation.
I like to think that they have an emergency time travel button that would send them back to modern day and that's how they survived (and how Nigel lived to start Prehistoric Park lol)
"What does a shark over 50 feet long prey on?" "Anything it bloody wants to." I think this is great. They even simulated him getting bitten by a sea scorpion! 🤣 that is dedication. I love it. The idea should be super cheesy and awful but it works brilliantly! Nigel makes all sorts of dumb mistakes, interacts with his crew, looks like a real life documentary. 💯🦕
Can we just FOR ONE SECOND just listen to the score? The tension, the suspense, the off sounding orchestral rhythm, oml it's gorgeous. Really sets the atmosphere and tone for the encounters, especially for megalodon
21:10 Can we just appreciate the composer, Ben Bartlett for adding an *electric guitar* to this part of the soundtrack! Edit: Y’know what? Let’s appreciate the entire soundtrack, it’s *all* excellent!
This amazing electric guitar makes me wanting to play guitar!! Sorry for bad English grammar btw I'm a Dutch fan of prehistoric animals and cosplay and i idolise Nigel Marven. My favorite animals are the Mosasaurs. So Hell's Aquarium was the best part in my opinion.
God this was my childhood. and GOD, it's still fantastic. It still holds up. It's just so delightful to me that the seemingly very serious and realistic Walking With Dinosaurs franchise decided to go this route. I mean, it's just fantastic, they executed it SO well. The acting, the writing, the CGI (especially for the time) and animatronics, the awesome score, the editing, it's all fan-fucking-tastic. It's *fun,* but it's also incredibly educational and informative. It's just... such a fun premise, done extremely well. Bravo WWD. And thank YOU for posting this, I'm so glad I get to watch it again!!:)
I was fortunate enough to meet Nigel in person a few months back and he talked all about his experiences shooting this and prehistoric park and the souvenirs he’s brought home. Hes such a genuine nice guy, props to him honestly.
this is actually the best CGI ive ever seen.. not because its the best modeled or anything. But because of all the secondary techniques they use. They first show the animals at inopportune angles suggesting they dont have the best camera-shot at first. These details make this show feel extremely realistic. Honestly more real than other survival shows WITHOUT dinosaurs haha
What i love the most about these videos is the acting, you genuinely feel like they are a crew on a mission. Just the detail of them passing the re-breather around was great
Birds are dinosaurs, specifically in the group maniraptora. Maniaptora is the group of dinosaurs that includes all avian dinosaurs as well as the dromaeosaurids, oviraptorosaurs, and troodontids. Basically all the dinosaurs with pennaceous feathers and stiff caudal vertebrae were maniraptors.
@@Defenestration700 there was no such thing as a flying dinosaur or even a marine dinosaur, they were actually just reptiles that lived at the same time
DUDE this show/ water themed episode was the BEST. I remember watching this on VHS and having a fear of those sea scorpions. Man what a show this was. Too bad we won’t get a thing like this ever again
This is one of those things us kids in the early 2000's used to watch and of course should've known better this wasn't real but despite that, it's amazing that this segment in the trilogy showed us what was once living in our oceans millions and millions of years ago
I watched this in the early 2010s with my best friend a I still remember believing there were 6 time periods due to the the 6 episodes of walking with dinosaurs.
It's awesome how devoted the whole crew was making the whole thing seem so much more realistic i can't even imagine anyone else doing nearly as good of a job i would love for them to return for a remake
The liopleuredon one always freaked me out during the night feeding part. Also the music perfectly conveys the horror of coming face to face with an ancient leviathan
Omg, I found it! So when I was a kid, my mom left me at home, so I grabbed this documentary, that we had on cd, and by the end I was so scared, that when I pressed some button on the remote that turned off the video on the tv, but audio was still going, I thought these creatures were going to come out of the screen, completely forgot that we had a back door that could be open from the inside, tried the front door that was closed, and decided to SMASH THE WINDOW WITH MY FOOT, and somehow crawl through it, with the shards sticking out and on the floor, completely unharmed, must’ve been a big adrenalin rush. So I ran to look for my mom and I thought she would be upset about the tv and the window, but she was just glad that I was fine. What a wild childhood memory with this one😅
Just wanna say that this documentary, the rest of the walking with series, and Nigel Marven in particular are probably the reason I decided to pursue biology as a career and as a passion. Glad to see that this documentary is so freely available!
As a kid I’d watch this obsessively, to the point where the dvd stopped working. Clicking on this video, I just got a rush of all the memories of watching this in the portable DVD player on long car rides. It just made me feel so happy in a way I can’t really describe
Wow, nostalgic af. I had forgotten about watching movies on the back of the passenger or driver seat, sometimes even a portable DVD player with a screen included. And I remember watching this a lot!
Nigel Marven is hands-down one of the greatest people to ever exist. Just highlighting and making nature entertaining and exciting, all with a big smile on his face the entire time
The practical models and effects for the creatures in this series are simply incredible for their time. I love how they went to the extent of giving Nigel the ability to interact with physical versions of the monsters as opposed to just simply CG. So much effort was put into this production you can tell.
You should see the making of Walking with Dinosaurs. They actually made clay or rubber replicas to scale and had paleontologist consultants for behaviour information.
During the scenes where Nigel breathed the special airmix, I decided to breathe the air around me to appreciate the atmosphere today. I ended up smelling the neighbour's barbecue. 👌
Here's a bit of science update for everyone: 1. Nigel went to see the SMALL Sea Scorpions. There are ones bigger than him during this time. 2. Not only were those Nothosaurs about half the size of the bigger ones, but so is that Cymbospondylus he ran into! 3. Dunkleosteus was a bit shorter than that, but the jaws were no less impressive. 4. The Megalodon was somehow even larger than what was depicted here and was longer than just a scaled-up, stocky great white. 5. Those Leedsichthys were not the biggest fish that ever lived, that title probably belongs to Megalodon, so they were even less safe from the giant Pliosaurs roaming about, and even at that time there were still big ichthyosaurs around, so even more deadly predators than in this episode. 6. Those Mosasaurs fossils show may have been less social than shown here (which makes sense, given that they're basically just monitor lizards that adapted to live in the ocean and modern Komodo Dragons really get mean with each other), since they've been found in interspecies combat having chomped down on each others' skulls. And also they were FAST, with proper tail flukes unlike the paddles shown here, meaning if they spot you, you're dead if they think you're lunch.
My actual first experience with crippling depression: watching this as a little kid thinking that it was real, only for my parents to tell me wasn't following an argument with my third grade teacher. I cried for like ten solid minutes and refused to come out of my room for three days. Good times.
I came here because I had Prehistoric Park on DVD as a kid, so it’s super cool to learn that there’s MORE of Nigel Marven going back in time to interact with prehistoric creatures!!
Ordovicion 2:04 450 Million Years Ago Triassic 15:30 230 Million Years Ago Devonian 22:00 360 Million Years Ago Eocene 32:08 36 Million Years Ago Pliocene 44:37 4 Million Years Ago Jurassic 1:01:55 155 Million Years Ago Cretaceous 1:12:41 75 Million Years Ago
Dude you're lucky to have such a cool specialisation like that! I do earth sciences with a focus on paleontology, but we don't study much about marine vertebrates... What college do you go to?
I wish we had more series like this and "Walking with" in this day and age. Would be amazing to see them with new discoveries and hypothesis. As long as it would have the same level of quality and realism. Now a days most shows like this rely completely on CGI. From the rocks, grass and water to the animals themselves. That makes the world seem uncanny and fake. Where as these series were filmed in real time, in the real world and they supplemented with CGI.
Honestly they did a really good job in making everything look as real as possible. Used to think this was real as a kid but could never understand how that was possible 😂😂
Head canon: the cameraman from Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, Walking with Monsters, Prehistoric Park, Sea Monsters, and Primeval are the same guy. If you’re still alive and not eaten, you deserve a freaking promotion! And the world’s biggest raise!
That's interesting, but I have some other interesting headcannon ideas. Such as: Nigel in Primeval S3 is in the same universe as this and prehistoric park and he went back into the anomaly to escape the Giganotosaurus.
I had the DVD of this and watched it religiously as a kid. It cut off at the dunkleosteus though saying "to be continued", and i was always so upset I didn't get to see the rest of it. So glad I found this.
There could be a chance his arm might get pulled along with the Dunk's jaws as it pulls on the bait Dont forget it is a 30 foot beast of a leviathan with 2 inch armor for a face. *And that mf doesnt even have any teeth*
this was so incredibly well done. from the practical effects to the actor’s incredibly sellable performance to the meticulously animated creatures this show was the pinnacle of educational excellence for my entire childhood. nigel marvin is a total badass.
Absolutely adored this series growing up, along with Prehistoric Park, and I’m so glad I decided to revisit it. To this day, my mom and I still quote “Don’t go in the water...”
The fact that there isn't more time travelling to the past with a human guide, it really gives a sense of scale to everything and how big it really all is. Nigel Marven did such an amazing job with it, so if this is the only one we get than its a pretty damn good one.
You know, while fake, the production team was rather clever making the props, cage damage, ect appear, for a moment, real. Marvin sells it with the YOU IDOIT. Like something had gone wrong. Meg bits and sea scorpion were highlights to me growing up
Of the top 100 best paleo-quotes, yeet by Nigel Marven is number two. The very number one is when Nigel said 'you idiot' to a crewmember at 58:23-58:24! 😂
Its amazing to me that this tv show was made in 2003 and while the video quality is better today, those VFX are still top-notch. Really makes you feel like Nigel was an actual time traveler
i think this was one of the few (if not only) shows/movies as a kid that i fully believed was real. the practical effects even today are amazing, and the cgi still holds up decently well. they really did such a good job making this feel like a prehistoric documentary
I remember after 4:00--4:11, he said a line that went “it may not look like it, but amazingly, I’m stand on what will become New York City I half a billion years time.” I specifically remember that and it isn’t anywhere. Mandela Effect?
On the dvd version that line was actually there, I think on the blue ray they removed it. (Might be the other way round as I had both the dvd and blue ray as a kid)
Because of this documentary I was actually able to correct a museum on Mosasaurs when I was about 7 years old No I'm not joking If you want the reason, they were labeled as Mosasaurs in the museum but they were clearly skeletons of Liopluerodons. I asked this museum staff (who looked like a college student at the time) about it, while my parents are like "No its fine sweetie, don't bother the nice museum staff" The college student looked at me and then my parent's and said "yeah hes got a point"
I think that’s really cool, but there is a chance you made a mistake, because the liopleurodon in this show was quite scientifically inaccurate, especially when it came to size, so it could’ve been a mosasaur.
Nah. Having had some experience with time travel, you can't actually interact with the past, and you absolutely cannot jump 450,000,000 years at once. At most, you can only jump about 15million at a time, otherwise you end up outside the Universe like I did and then you get to watch Every universe happen and unhappen in real time forever like me.
I just remember thinking that the creatures seen throughout this video were real but of course years later when I got older I soon realized that everything was just CGI
when i was 5 years old, i used to draw dinosaurs. and i was good at it, then for my birthday my uncle got me the entire dvd with all the sets. i haven't watched it until now.
this aged like a fine wine, despite the lower quality compared to things from today. this was my childhood, and it unbelievable that it on youtube for free
Holy shit same I used to watch this then imagine sea monsters at my swim lessons when I was like 5 I ended up scaring myself thinking about a basilosaurus hahaha
I love reading the comments in this video, I was really young lad when I first saw this series and was obsessed. Still one of the things from my childhood that drove me to appreciating biology and the earth in general. Watching back now as a young adult, I can still say that the "walking with" series is one of the best ever made.
This is the BEST series they ever made! The timeline, the charts, they way they show the "periods", what existed and what did not, so comprehensive, as a research resource, this is invaluable! I reference this to people, a LOT.
This...this is just pure gold. The CGI is so good for an early 2000s BBC documentary. The soundtrack is amazing, the acting is pretty, and the creatures look awesome. I know this video is likely going to get taken down cause copyright, but at least it brought back good memories from when I was a kid watching this.
Talk about balls of steel when it comes to picking something that scary looking up and throwing it aside. I don't I would've due to my massive arachnophobia
Oh my goodness The Tylosaurus family attack was SUSPENSE AS HELL I know it's coming, I'm expecting it... but when it comes... It isn't even a jumpscare but it gives me internal thrills and CHILLS I love Nigel Marven. I hope he survived oh i forgot he did and now he's voicing Prehistoric Kingdom
This man goes looking for sea monsters while diving in full chain mail and when he finds them he turns them into Ubers. This man knows fear is just an emotion.
Can we just appreciate the fact that this entire series is available on CZcams in HD, without audio changes and without the video in a tiny box in the corner?
Thanks you !!!
@@foysollee750 👌
Sam Lee can do the dinosaur ones giant claw and land of giants? Prehistoric Park?
@@hunterhq295 I agree!
@@foysollee750 I both hate you for stealing from Nigel, and love you for allowing me to get this on download -_-
The CGI, Nigel’s acting and the score are so damn great. This series was made with a lot of love.
And lets give a kudos to the Creators of the animatronics and models
To be fair this is probably the best cgi of a Meg until the big budget The Meg came out. 15 odd years later.
The decision to cast an actual animal show host like Nigel was a really smart move. If you watch him in his other show, (looking for real animals), he's got the exact same personality/way of talking as he does in these "mockumentaries".
I used to watch this all the time, I own this and prehistoric park on dvd, they are old, but very informative about prehistoric eras, even though they were made for an younger audience
@@_t_h_o_m_a_s_ altough many details and portrayals of the animals are wrong
This has to be the most wholesome comments section of all time. The nostalgia I have for this show is on a prehistoric level
I sea what you did there 😂
@@SarahGraceBennett Water you saying lol
@@thekaijuuniverseplayer701 underrated comment here 😂
😀😂
Facts
Lots of comments about the CGI (which was definitely incredibly impressive for its time and still looks good today), but I also want to talk about the acting/commitment to believability as a "real" documentary. I was always fully convinced by his reactions as a kid that he was genuinely interacting with these creatures. Plus the conversations/interactions with the boat crew and camera men really help sell this series.
Literally same, I really thought as a kid that this guy took at time machine back in time 😂😂
Things like him offering the oxygen to the camera dude and then the crew sharing the oxygen around the campfire make this so good
My personal favourite is when their arguing about the megalodon, feels like every documentary has that so having it here sells it as a real thing even if it’s obviously not
when i was a kid i always wondered how he didnt feel any pain from the sea scorpion gash, especially in water
Can't forget about the amazing prop design and fabrication! The creatures they made for him to handle look really good!
Props to Nigel, he makes it feel so real. It still gets to me today. ITS STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT
same buddy... same
WHAT HE DOES TO HIS BODY
It was real at one time
I hear you *pats shoulder*
You gotta give it to Nigel, he's the perfect guy for these kind of nature documentaries
The archaeologists are gonna be pretty confused when they find Nigel's deflated boat fossilized millions of years ago.
I was just thinking that.
Paleontologist 1: What the-
Paleontologist 2: is that a boat?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had “what about the boats, speaker and chainmail?” In the back of my mind
*Paleontologist
Also, I don't think boats fossilize, and they did survive.
You cant carbon date a boat
@@parkersaurus2205 Actually, Paleontology is dedicated to the study of dinosaurs and ancient animals, Archeology is the study of ancient humans and cultures. They can still study fossils, they’re just generally dedicated more towards humans. As such, Nigel Marvins boat would actually fall under their jurisdiction.
Also, it’s a joke
My only issue is that I can't experience this amazing series for the 1st time again. I really wish the BBC would produce more shows like this again.
HEY THE BBC ARE REMAKING WALKING WITH DINOSAURS! If you haven't heard
Nigel is a surprisingly good actor. He genuinely looks terrified, amazed, excited etc etc; over things that literally aren't there.
Imao a Professional
Nigel: I can't dive in this water, it is too dangerous.
Nigel 2 minutes later: *Turtle? Real shit.*
mood tho
And without my smell suit.
Giant turtle in deadly water? Gotta ride that
are you saying you would not do the same?
@@wither5673 I will swim into the water to the turtle before you can blink
For being 2003, the CGI is incredible impressive. It looks like it could've been made today.
GZA It really holds up even to 2020 standards. I’m not surprised as to why so many of us thought it was real when we were kids.
The other thing is, they had a pretty small budget so extra 10 points for that
This is probably what these animals would have looked like of they were alive today.
Reddit Cool Lmao probably not due to speciation and adaptation over periods of time:
I used to think this was real when I was 8 and is why I get anxiety around water deep than my chest
This show was so well made for its time. The “real” sea Scorpion he picks up is just an example of how believable they made it!
The level of detail and preparation they made to ensure it was like a nature documentary with animals that act like animals is still phenomenal to this day. Nigel Marvin works perfectly as a prehistoric Steve Irwin, Anglosphere host.
He will always be greatly missed.
@@parkersaurus2205 Indeed. Think this also did Steve proud since one of his goals was to show animals aren’t bloodthirsty monsters but just trying to survive.
@@lufsolitaire5351 very true
@@parkersaurus2205 Nigel’s still alive
@@danielbrown8556 They're referring to Steve Irwin.
The ending always made me think that they either died at sea, time travelers that were never able to share their findings, or that it was a setup for a sequel. Damn, childhood was awesome.
I think it was probably setting up for a sequel that was cancelled before it could air. That seems most probable to me anyway
They did not die, Nigel went on after that to use the time travel to open a prehistoric zoo.
@@kirbcake which would then be breached and making the dinosaurs escape to the wilderness...
The ending always creeped me out to be honest.
Like, they are all asleep, and the radar starts picking up a couple of Mossasaurs... Okay, no big deal...
Then we see the radar again, and GOD that is terrifying. The entire radar is just covered with Mossasaurs, all aiming at the boat.
And like, you understand that Nigel and the rest of the guys may not be all that save in their boat after all.
Truly
When I was a little kid this was my favourite thing on TV. Loved it so much I drew a picture of me diving with Nigel, saying I wished I could come along with him when I was grown up. He actually replied by sending me a signed photo book of Sea Monsters, saying he would love for me to come along. Still one of my most prized possessions
Harry Fitzpatrick Cool man, you sent him the drawing right after this was created?
@@titanfootballcm2838 Yeah man, early 2000s
@@harryjfp4480 That's awesome! I remember when I was obsessed with these BBC docs, (like we all were), my mum sent Nigel a message saying something like "My child never wants you to retire" or something like that, and he thought that was very funny.
Aww that's sweet that they'd do that for a young fan
Wow man, that's awesome!
Most time travel media: *moving a chair results in seven wars and 40 major changes*
Sea monsters: *rides cameroceras, tosses sea scorpion, leaves inflataboat behind, refuses to elaborate, continues to their next destination*
I remember thinking as a kid about how modern palaeontologists probably found a random sailboat and were confused as fuck
We all know the feeling of having seen something as a kid and wanting to find it as an older person and eventually finding it is the best feeling
So true
That's one of the biggest excitement we can feel
My childhood...
My constant viewing of this as a kid is the reason I can't sop playing subnautica
Same here :)
Same lol I actually thought he timed traveled when I was little
@@typicalasianguy1805 Same
I knew quite a few creatures from Ark as a result of this.
@@lightfurya2087 same
Sweet mother of god, nostalgia just hit me like a bag of bricks.
Should really see a doctor not only did nostalgia weld a bag of bricks but nostalgia can change your world views so you should also see a therapist
Not me, wasn't born then. If I was, I'd probably still not watch it 'cause I'm not English.
i know right
Saw this and loved it but then lost the DVD’s been searching for this my whole life
sorry, lost my memory after a fucking nostalgia train slammed into me.
1:25:34
This is probably one of the most suspenseful cliffhangers in all of history, it really feels like there's no hope left after this, I really wish they had a short, fourth episode that shows their battle and escape with the Mosasaurs, otherwise the "They are doomed" argument still lives to this day.
That explains why the narrator ended with: "The worst was over...almost." I also would have liked to have seen a fourth episode to see how they got out of that terrifying situation.
Oh yes, this cliffhanger has been troubling me for the last 20 years, though I'm glad I'm not alone in my suffering ahahhahah
As a kid I was pleased to see him return in Prehistoric Park. He was alive! 😂
I like to think that they have an emergency time travel button that would send them back to modern day and that's how they survived (and how Nigel lived to start Prehistoric Park lol)
"What does a shark over 50 feet long prey on?" "Anything it bloody wants to." I think this is great. They even simulated him getting bitten by a sea scorpion! 🤣 that is dedication. I love it. The idea should be super cheesy and awful but it works brilliantly! Nigel makes all sorts of dumb mistakes, interacts with his crew, looks like a real life documentary. 💯🦕
I agree, it really does!
“Bloody” wants to. Get it? Because sharks go crazy when they smell blood?
@@lordshotgun7168 you're a genius 😂
Great Imao
The megalodon in walking with sea monsters are 52 feet (16 meters)
Props to the cameramen for sticking up with Nigel's shenanigans
GreenPrick I just got paid well mate. Hell I even asked for a raise 4 times during filming and got it for what I put up with.
@@deadinsidemcgee411 damn bro you gotta tell me, what was that "almost" about? Did y'all made it or nah?
@@ryokiritani4187 lost a foot in there, I got paid damn good for the trouble. We all got out.
@@deadinsidemcgee411 Lost a foot? What happened?
The camera man:the oldest creature alive
Sea Scorpion: *exists *
Nigel: *Y E E T*
Still love how he legitimately yeets the poor animal across the god damn beach, it's just perfect meme material.
NiiiCEEEEEE
now time it with the yell sound effect used all the time lol
@@wither5673 you mean the whilhelm yell or the yeet yell?
At least the sea scorpion got its revenge >:)
Can we just FOR ONE SECOND just listen to the score? The tension, the suspense, the off sounding orchestral rhythm, oml it's gorgeous. Really sets the atmosphere and tone for the encounters, especially for megalodon
Agreed
That’s Ben Bartlett for you
YES! I LOVE IT TOO! It adds to the magic it had when i was younger + till this day for sure!
i love how it sounds alien at some points
the Feeding Frenzy track with the liopleurodon makes it one of my favorite scenes in any documentary ever
21:10 Can we just appreciate the composer, Ben Bartlett for adding an *electric guitar* to this part of the soundtrack!
Edit: Y’know what? Let’s appreciate the entire soundtrack, it’s *all* excellent!
Factual
Agreed!!
True
What about 21:54?
This amazing electric guitar makes me wanting to play guitar!!
Sorry for bad English grammar btw
I'm a Dutch fan of prehistoric animals and cosplay and i idolise Nigel Marven.
My favorite animals are the Mosasaurs. So Hell's Aquarium was the best part in my opinion.
Anyone else use to think this was real as a kid?
Me lol
Bullshit
Yes i know i did, until i grew up, damn I miss my childhood
Me was also when I watched sea Rex
Wait this isn’t real
Aquatic creature: exists
Nigel: Imma grab it
True
*any Australian ever
@@MisterBubbaMan *not australian
@@MisterBubbaMan I was just going to say that lol
@@alo2748 nevermind, he's british.
God this was my childhood. and GOD, it's still fantastic. It still holds up. It's just so delightful to me that the seemingly very serious and realistic Walking With Dinosaurs franchise decided to go this route. I mean, it's just fantastic, they executed it SO well. The acting, the writing, the CGI (especially for the time) and animatronics, the awesome score, the editing, it's all fan-fucking-tastic. It's *fun,* but it's also incredibly educational and informative. It's just... such a fun premise, done extremely well. Bravo WWD. And thank YOU for posting this, I'm so glad I get to watch it again!!:)
Same here
I was fortunate enough to meet Nigel in person a few months back and he talked all about his experiences shooting this and prehistoric park and the souvenirs he’s brought home. Hes such a genuine nice guy, props to him honestly.
I still can't believe this is made in early 2000s. The CGI looked amazing even by today's standards
I agree
1993 movie Jurassic Park is betterment than this in CG.
@Mister Majestic i mean JP was a full on movie
@@user-xq9lw6go1u this was made for entertainment and learning
r/AgedLikeFineWine 🍷🥂
Sea scorpion: Exists
Orthocone: *So you have chosen... death.*
Lol didn’t expect memes on this video
You should always be prepared for memes, wherever you go.
Yes
Sarumonasaur
Yes! Amazing! Walking with memes :D
this is actually the best CGI ive ever seen.. not because its the best modeled or anything. But because of all the secondary techniques they use. They first show the animals at inopportune angles suggesting they dont have the best camera-shot at first. These details make this show feel extremely realistic. Honestly more real than other survival shows WITHOUT dinosaurs haha
What i love the most about these videos is the acting, you genuinely feel like they are a crew on a mission. Just the detail of them passing the re-breather around was great
Dinosaurs are extinct
Walking with trilogy: *are you sure about that*
EJB Vides ....hello?
BBC: We're gonna make a live action documentary of ancient sea predators!
Everyone else: They're extinct though...?
BBC: Did we f***ing stutter?
Birds are dinosaurs, specifically in the group maniraptora. Maniaptora is the group of dinosaurs that includes all avian dinosaurs as well as the dromaeosaurids, oviraptorosaurs, and troodontids. Basically all the dinosaurs with pennaceous feathers and stiff caudal vertebrae were maniraptors.
@@Defenestration700 there was no such thing as a flying dinosaur or even a marine dinosaur, they were actually just reptiles that lived at the same time
@@the40kboyz11 Many avian dinosaurs can fly and penguins are marine.
I am obsessed with prehistoric wildlife because of this documentary. I wished they remade this with up to date information and CGI!
That would be so cool, although I’m not sure the animation could get much better
Same that would be interesting
@@violetfantasy2537 imagine jurassic park levels of cgi, althought we wouldn't even be impressed
Can’t quite believe this series is 20 years old! What a great series it was, so well made, a timeless piece of television.
DUDE this show/ water themed episode was the BEST. I remember watching this on VHS and having a fear of those sea scorpions. Man what a show this was.
Too bad we won’t get a thing like this ever again
TRUE
Those sea scorpions had me checking the pool every time before I got in 😂
Don't be so certain. Something may even be under production right now ;)
The effects are waaaaaaay ahead of its time
Used to love all the designs here. Really epic work
This is one of those things us kids in the early 2000's used to watch and of course should've known better this wasn't real but despite that, it's amazing that this segment in the trilogy showed us what was once living in our oceans millions and millions of years ago
I watched this in the early 2010s with my best friend a I still remember believing there were 6 time periods due to the the 6 episodes of walking with dinosaurs.
Logan
Indeed!
So glad we grew up with shows this good
Man those were the days, used to watch it after school. Wish they would do something like this today
Nobody had guts to do this till now 😂
It's awesome how devoted the whole crew was making the whole thing seem so much more realistic i can't even imagine anyone else doing nearly as good of a job i would love for them to return for a remake
The liopleuredon one always freaked me out during the night feeding part. Also the music perfectly conveys the horror of coming face to face with an ancient leviathan
Omg, I found it! So when I was a kid, my mom left me at home, so I grabbed this documentary, that we had on cd, and by the end I was so scared, that when I pressed some button on the remote that turned off the video on the tv, but audio was still going, I thought these creatures were going to come out of the screen, completely forgot that we had a back door that could be open from the inside, tried the front door that was closed, and decided to SMASH THE WINDOW WITH MY FOOT, and somehow crawl through it, with the shards sticking out and on the floor, completely unharmed, must’ve been a big adrenalin rush. So I ran to look for my mom and I thought she would be upset about the tv and the window, but she was just glad that I was fine. What a wild childhood memory with this one😅
& Thanks you.
I love how Nigel just started bonding with the Pterandon.
Same!! I used to think about how awesome it would be to have a pteranodon as a pet/friend
@@LucaPalomo909 same
Just wanna say that this documentary, the rest of the walking with series, and Nigel Marven in particular are probably the reason I decided to pursue biology as a career and as a passion. Glad to see that this documentary is so freely available!
That’s awesome, how’s that coming along?
@Skwidbox Nice!
Nice. 🙂
I thought I hallucinated this entire show as a kid because I have never seen it again until now 😭 glad it exists
Yeah
Sea scorpion: tries to eat Nigel
Nigel: AARGH!
Giant orthocone: casually eats sea scorpion
Nigel: imma go for a swim with that thing
As a kid I’d watch this obsessively, to the point where the dvd stopped working. Clicking on this video, I just got a rush of all the memories of watching this in the portable DVD player on long car rides. It just made me feel so happy in a way I can’t really describe
Wow, nostalgic af. I had forgotten about watching movies on the back of the passenger or driver seat, sometimes even a portable DVD player with a screen included. And I remember watching this a lot!
ladies and gentlemen, My childhood. Nigel high key made me want to become a archaeologist
*Paleontologist
@@paleoph6168 thank you.
Paleo PH I was gonna say
I really wanted to be a paleontologist myself, when I was like seven, probably mostly because of Nigel
@@violetfantasy2537 Did you become one? That would certainly be more exciting than what people usually do.
The walking with series invokes a deep nostalgia and feeling I can’t describe. The way the cgi looks is just so unique and charming to me.
I think it’s the practical bits that sell it so well and give it that feeling
Nigel: I’m going to explore what’s in these 7 deadliest seas.
Creatures of the 7 deadliest seas:*h o o m a n*
I'd honestly find it hilarious if Nigel Marven cameod in Jurassic World Dominion
Actually I think he cameo in the series primeval and got eaten by a dinosaur hahahah
@@harrisalexakis9526 he did
That would be so damn cool
Should have had Nigel Marven instead of Chris Pratt
@@goji9892 we can hope for the next sequel to have him!
I remember coming home from school and I would watch stuff like that thinking it was real. No politics, no drama, no worries
Truth
Nigel Marven is hands-down one of the greatest people to ever exist. Just highlighting and making nature entertaining and exciting, all with a big smile on his face the entire time
The practical models and effects for the creatures in this series are simply incredible for their time. I love how they went to the extent of giving Nigel the ability to interact with physical versions of the monsters as opposed to just simply CG. So much effort was put into this production you can tell.
You should see the making of Walking with Dinosaurs. They actually made clay or rubber replicas to scale and had paleontologist consultants for behaviour information.
During the scenes where Nigel breathed the special airmix, I decided to breathe the air around me to appreciate the atmosphere today.
I ended up smelling the neighbour's barbecue. 👌
That’s a win for me
Epic
A bonus!
*breathes in noxious chemical air mix*
Nigel: I can't dive in this water, it is too dangerous.
also Nigel: POOL PARTY
Here's a bit of science update for everyone:
1.
Nigel went to see the SMALL Sea Scorpions. There are ones bigger than him during this time.
2.
Not only were those Nothosaurs about half the size of the bigger ones, but so is that Cymbospondylus he ran into!
3.
Dunkleosteus was a bit shorter than that, but the jaws were no less impressive.
4.
The Megalodon was somehow even larger than what was depicted here and was longer than just a scaled-up, stocky great white.
5.
Those Leedsichthys were not the biggest fish that ever lived, that title probably belongs to Megalodon, so they were even less safe from the giant Pliosaurs roaming about, and even at that time there were still big ichthyosaurs around, so even more deadly predators than in this episode.
6.
Those Mosasaurs fossils show may have been less social than shown here (which makes sense, given that they're basically just monitor lizards that adapted to live in the ocean and modern Komodo Dragons really get mean with each other), since they've been found in interspecies combat having chomped down on each others' skulls. And also they were FAST, with proper tail flukes unlike the paddles shown here, meaning if they spot you, you're dead if they think you're lunch.
Liopleurodon also weren’t as big as the BBC said they were. And I’m pretty sure Leedsichthys were bigger than Megalodon.
i spent 30minutes trying to find this series again man… my childhood :’) havent watched this since i was 6
You're Welcome.
Have you watched Primeval? Or do you reminder it?
Primeval was made by the same people
My actual first experience with crippling depression: watching this as a little kid thinking that it was real, only for my parents to tell me wasn't following an argument with my third grade teacher. I cried for like ten solid minutes and refused to come out of my room for three days. Good times.
We have all been there, nothing like a childhood ruined by old reality
Reality is often disappointing.
@@Dalekzilla54 True
@@Dalekzilla54 it always is
@@sanub4830 Until the future gives us time travel.
This video is both the reason I love the ocean and fear it with the burning passion of a thousand suns
I RELATE SO MUCH TO THIS COMMENT
We really need to respect the ocean.
I am married with this comment straight after reading it
Is there such a thing as a comfort documentary? It’s so tacky and I love this so so much. It’s so comforting
I came here because I had Prehistoric Park on DVD as a kid, so it’s super cool to learn that there’s MORE of Nigel Marven going back in time to interact with prehistoric creatures!!
Ordovicion 2:04 450 Million Years Ago
Triassic 15:30 230 Million Years Ago
Devonian 22:00 360 Million Years Ago
Eocene 32:08 36 Million Years Ago
Pliocene 44:37 4 Million Years Ago
Jurassic 1:01:55 155 Million Years Ago
Cretaceous 1:12:41 75 Million Years Ago
As you Say...
Jurassic Period 1:01:55 155 Million Years Ago in England of United Kingdom
This is what made me go for Paleomarine Biology today. Major in Paleontology with a focus on Marine Vertebrates, and a minor in Marine Biology!
Right on!
Dude you're lucky to have such a cool specialisation like that! I do earth sciences with a focus on paleontology, but we don't study much about marine vertebrates... What college do you go to?
CONGRATULATIONS
Wow nice
Sick AF m8 Do Great Things
I wish we had more series like this and "Walking with" in this day and age. Would be amazing to see them with new discoveries and hypothesis. As long as it would have the same level of quality and realism. Now a days most shows like this rely completely on CGI. From the rocks, grass and water to the animals themselves. That makes the world seem uncanny and fake. Where as these series were filmed in real time, in the real world and they supplemented with CGI.
I agree.
Thankfully prehistoric planet has been announced since this comment!
Good news new Walking with series is coming (:
this was my FAVOURITE as a kid, no wonder im a marine biologist now
Wow! Good job!
Neigel just broke the record of holding his breath while talking without dying for more than 1 minute
He's just built different
Honestly they did a really good job in making everything look as real as possible. Used to think this was real as a kid but could never understand how that was possible 😂😂
Head canon: the cameraman from Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, Walking with Monsters, Prehistoric Park, Sea Monsters, and Primeval are the same guy. If you’re still alive and not eaten, you deserve a freaking promotion! And the world’s biggest raise!
That's interesting, but I have some other interesting headcannon ideas. Such as: Nigel in Primeval S3 is in the same universe as this and prehistoric park and he went back into the anomaly to escape the Giganotosaurus.
@@parkersaurus2205 good Lord.
True
@@parkersaurus2205 Wow!!
For the year when this was made it was ultra realistic, modern cartoons and movies dont come close to these masterpieces
I had the DVD of this and watched it religiously as a kid. It cut off at the dunkleosteus though saying "to be continued", and i was always so upset I didn't get to see the rest of it. So glad I found this.
*Gigantic Armored fish nearly crushes the safety cage* Nigel: "He really wants this bait!"
Me: "Then f*cking give it to him!"
There could be a chance his arm might get pulled along with the Dunk's jaws as it pulls on the bait
Dont forget it is a 30 foot beast of a leviathan with 2 inch armor for a face.
*And that mf doesnt even have any teeth*
How was the CGI so good?! This stuff looks almost like it could have been made today, it's better than the stuff at least a decade ahead of them.
Bro I’m saying!!!
That’s because they use real life locations without it being computer generated
this was so incredibly well done. from the practical effects to the actor’s incredibly sellable performance to the meticulously animated creatures this show was the pinnacle of educational excellence for my entire childhood. nigel marvin is a total badass.
my childhood was obsessed with sea monsters during the dinosaur times.
That makes two of us
Makes three
Makes legit thousands probably lol
Millions
I used to think I was special
Absolutely adored this series growing up, along with Prehistoric Park, and I’m so glad I decided to revisit it. To this day, my mom and I still quote “Don’t go in the water...”
The fact that there isn't more time travelling to the past with a human guide, it really gives a sense of scale to everything and how big it really all is. Nigel Marven did such an amazing job with it, so if this is the only one we get than its a pretty damn good one.
I am so happy this has a million views, it is well deserved
You know, while fake, the production team was rather clever making the props, cage damage, ect appear, for a moment, real.
Marvin sells it with the YOU IDOIT. Like something had gone wrong.
Meg bits and sea scorpion were highlights to me growing up
15:00 “YEET!”- Nigel Marvin
Throw dat sea scorpion
“Get that Eurypterid thorax out of here”
Top 100 best paleo-quotes of all fime
Of the top 100 best paleo-quotes, yeet by Nigel Marven is number two.
The very number one is when Nigel said 'you idiot' to a crewmember at 58:23-58:24!
😂
Its amazing to me that this tv show was made in 2003 and while the video quality is better today, those VFX are still top-notch. Really makes you feel like Nigel was an actual time traveler
I loved this series when I was a kid. I love how they both use CGI and practical effects! Makes it more realistic!
forget disney! this is what i watched as a kid
Same, dude.
Ah, man of culture as well
Averege Disney fan vs Averege Trilogy of Life enjoyer
We love facts!!
*BBC dinosaur chads unite*
Sea Scorpion: Exists
Nigel: Y E E T
Nigel is an ARK player with plot armor. But seriously in my abusive childhood this was a light.
i think this was one of the few (if not only) shows/movies as a kid that i fully believed was real. the practical effects even today are amazing, and the cgi still holds up decently well. they really did such a good job making this feel like a prehistoric documentary
The puppet that they used for the sea scorpion was fantastic
That ain’t no puppet my man picked up a real sea scorpion cmon 🙄
@@dominicd5239 truth
This man above me be spittin fax
5:44 Don't forget this thing also
@@dominicd5239 thats an animatronic sea scorpion they use a mixture of cgi and animatronics to make it look real when they're making the documentary
I remember after 4:00--4:11, he said a line that went “it may not look like it, but amazingly, I’m stand on what will become New York City I half a billion years time.” I specifically remember that and it isn’t anywhere.
Mandela Effect?
At 32:50 he says a similar line but with Cairo instead of New York, if that helps
That’s why, your memories are jumbled together, creating a whole memory that actually didn’t happen
On the dvd version that line was actually there, I think on the blue ray they removed it. (Might be the other way round as I had both the dvd and blue ray as a kid)
Walibi Maniac! Thank you!
This was definitely in it when I watched it on Netflix
Because of this documentary
I was actually able to correct a museum on Mosasaurs when I was about 7 years old
No I'm not joking
If you want the reason, they were labeled as Mosasaurs in the museum but they were clearly skeletons of Liopluerodons. I asked this museum staff (who looked like a college student at the time) about it, while my parents are like "No its fine sweetie, don't bother the nice museum staff"
The college student looked at me and then my parent's and said "yeah hes got a point"
You're cool
I think that’s really cool, but there is a chance you made a mistake, because the liopleurodon in this show was quite scientifically inaccurate, especially when it came to size, so it could’ve been a mosasaur.
Wow that’s amazing
@@xrybl45tx12 Imao
You were probably mistaken. I find it hard to believe that a museum would mislabel such a famous animal.
plot twist: it's not cgi, the guy actually time travelled to the past witha a cameraman.
Nah. Having had some experience with time travel, you can't actually interact with the past, and you absolutely cannot jump 450,000,000 years at once. At most, you can only jump about 15million at a time, otherwise you end up outside the Universe like I did and then you get to watch Every universe happen and unhappen in real time forever like me.
Loved this stuff as a kid.
I just remember thinking that the creatures seen throughout this video were real but of course years later when I got older I soon realized that everything was just CGI
Same here :)
I use to think he actually time traveled
Kyoety omg same😂😂
Andrew Wells and I still do now :)
when i was 5 years old, i used to draw dinosaurs. and i was good at it, then for my birthday my uncle got me the entire dvd with all the sets. i haven't watched it until now.
Ive watched this an inhumane number of times
And ill keep watching it
Me too, Thank you.
this aged like a fine wine, despite the lower quality compared to things from today. this was my childhood, and it unbelievable that it on youtube for free
I watched this every friday night as a kid. I had saturday morning swimming practice.
Same here, before the dark times! There was also a book that I got.
So for motivation (like to imagine they were chasing you), or for fun? Or fun motivation?
Holy shit same I used to watch this then imagine sea monsters at my swim lessons when I was like 5 I ended up scaring myself thinking about a basilosaurus hahaha
@@rhysnichols8608 Same I think of them everytime I enter any body of water and it scares me sometimes.
I used to watch this on Netflix and then one day it wasn't there
Robin Kempkes same man
Same
Same bruv
Omfg same
Robin Kempkes Same, just like walking with beasts (i believe, or it was walking with monsters. I don’t remember but it was the time before the dino’s)
I love reading the comments in this video, I was really young lad when I first saw this series and was obsessed. Still one of the things from my childhood that drove me to appreciating biology and the earth in general. Watching back now as a young adult, I can still say that the "walking with" series is one of the best ever made.
This is the BEST series they ever made!
The timeline, the charts, they way they show the "periods", what existed and what did not, so comprehensive, as a research resource, this is invaluable!
I reference this to people, a LOT.
This...this is just pure gold. The CGI is so good for an early 2000s BBC documentary. The soundtrack is amazing, the acting is pretty, and the creatures look awesome. I know this video is likely going to get taken down cause copyright, but at least it brought back good memories from when I was a kid watching this.
Won't get taken down
I love how he just yeets a sea scorpion
Talk about balls of steel when it comes to picking something that scary looking up and throwing it aside. I don't I would've due to my massive arachnophobia
@@Dukesparrow1999 its not a spider?? scorpions aren't even related to arachnids.
@@redddyvistora8620 nah I feel ya man, it's just that scorpions always gave me spider vibes
Pretty sure real scorpions are arachnids they are related to spiders so I guess?
hes nigel marven after all
Oh my goodness
The Tylosaurus family attack was SUSPENSE AS HELL
I know it's coming, I'm expecting it... but when it comes... It isn't even a jumpscare but it gives me internal thrills and CHILLS
I love Nigel Marven. I hope he survived oh i forgot he did and now he's voicing Prehistoric Kingdom
This man goes looking for sea monsters while diving in full chain mail and when he finds them he turns them into Ubers. This man knows fear is just an emotion.