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1. Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (2001)
Episode: Whale Killer (2001)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Documentary

36 million years B.C., a pregnant Basilosaurus whale resorts to desperate measures to find food for herself and her unborn infant. On land, mammals are growing into enormous creatures.

Director: Nigel Paterson | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish

Votes: 163

2. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Africa Today (2014)

TV-G | Documentary, History

When the super continent Gandwana began to break up into the modern day continents, Africa separated from Europe forming the Tethys Ocean. But Africa changed it's mind. It is now traveling ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Jordane Corbeau, Francis Duranthon, Anna Flori-Lamour, Yann Klinger

Votes: 10

3. Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy (2003)
Episode: Into the Jaws of Death (2003)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure

Nigel continues to court danger in the Devonian as he teases a dunkleosteus and in the Eocene trying to hand feed an arsinoitherium. Then to the Pliocene for an counter with history's largest shark.

Director: Jasper James | Stars: Christopher Cook, Karen Hayley, Nigel Marven

Votes: 85

4. PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode: How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean (2021)

11 min | Documentary

In a whale fall a dead whale falls to the ocean floor becoming a rich habitat for bottom dwelling creatures. Whale falls are well know in shallow water but a group of scientists propose ... See full summary »

Star: Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

5. MetaBallStudios (2013– )
Episode: Dinosaurs 3D Comparison (2017)

2 min | Documentary, Animation

Dinosaurs were big. But they were also small. Here are a bunch of them all in a row.

6. Rise of the Continents (2013)
Episode: Africa (2013)

TV-PG | 61 min | Documentary

Africa is the cradle of humanity, it is land born from violent, cataclysmic events. Even today, it is still possible to find evidence, sometimes in the most unlikely places, of these events... See full summary »

Director: Peter Oxley | Stars: Iain Stewart, Richard Nashuma, Mustapha Turay, Charlie Underwood

Votes: 50

7. Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode: Paleo Profile - Andrewsarchus (2017)

6 min | Documentary, History

Andrewsarchus is an obvious predator known from a single skull that roughly resembles a very large wolf. But close inspection suggests it is an ungulate (e.g. horses, pigs etc.) most ... See full summary »

Star: Trey Swenton

8. Raptor Chatter (2018– )
Episode: Perucetus: the Largest Whale Ever? (2023)

6 min | Documentary, History

Paleontologists have discovered a partial skeleton for a whale-like basilosaur dubbed Pericetus Colossus that seems to be on par with the Blue Whale in size and mass. It though to have ... See full summary »

Star: Ezekiel O'Callaghan

9. EDGE Science (2017– )
Episode: Prehistoric Manatee Whale Was Heaviest Animal to Ever Live | Perucetus (2023)

22 min | Documentary, Animation

In 2010 Mario Urbina discovered a whale fossil in Peru which he named Perucetus. It may be heavier than the blue whale, long thought to be the largest animal to ever live. But the bones of Perucetus are bigger and denser.

10. La planète des Géants (2017)
Episode: La conquête des océans (2017)

Documentary

Follow François Sarana and his diving team as he swims with a pod of sperm whales and samples one's excrement. Then watch a mother humpback whale train her calf. A romanticized narrative ... See full summary »

Director: Guillaume Vincent | Stars: Aldo Ferrucci, René Heuzey, Sharon Mann, François Sarano