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[Wanda is levitating dishes onto a shelf. Vision walks in and a dish hits his head, breaking it into pieces.] Vision: My wife and her flying saucers. Wanda Maximoff: My husband and his indestructible head. – WandaVision Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [last lines in the series] The unique ability to stand upright, and the agility this allowed, gives the early dinosaurs a competitive edge over our four-legged mammal ancestors. Repressed by these swift killers, our ancestors are reduced to small creatures hiding in the shadows. Their time will come... [The scene cuts ahead to the Jurassic, where the dinosaurs now rule the Earth] But for the next 170 million years, the world belongs to the dinosaurs! – Walking with Monsters Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [as the Euparkaria evolves on-screen into an Allosaurus] His descendants will be known as the most notorious monsters of them all: dinosaurs! – Walking with Monsters Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: The dawn of the Triassic era and the earth has only just begun to show signs of recovery. The deserts have stopped growing and huge forests of primitive conifer start to recolonize the land. In these new forests, plant-eaters recover first. One in particular, like most of the large reptiles, they may resemble dinosaurs but lystrosaurus are more closely linked to mammals and to us. Astonishingly their vast herds make up more than half of all life on earth. Never again will a single species do so well. – Walking with Monsters Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: Over the next few million years, the Earth will suffocate under a stagnant blanket of heat, sparking a mass-extinction even greater than the one that will destroy the dinosaurs. The future belongs to a tiny group of survivors, small and adaptable enough to sit it out. – Walking with Monsters Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: Hunger drives the Gorgonopsid back to the Diictodon, and this time, she tries to dig them out. [The Gorgonopsid digs at the Diictodon's burrow, but to no avail; she eventually gives up and returns to the now dried-up water hole] But the Diictodon's hard work pays off. Their den in the sun-baked earth is deep enough to keep them safe. Instead, the Gorgonopsid's nose leads her back to the dried-up water hole. She senses things are not as lifeless as they seem. [The Gorgonopsid digs up the Rhinesuchus from before] The giant amphibian... Just before the water hole dried up, she must've burrowed into the damp mud, forming a cocoon around herself in a last-ditch attempt to sit out the drought. [The Gorgonopsid begins eating the Rheinosuchus] But in her torpid state, she's helpless, as the Gorgonopsid feasts. – Walking with Monsters Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: Meat is only a small part of the Australopithecus diet, but it will become more important in the future, for more human-like apes. An increase in meat eating will go hand in hand with an increase in brain size. Meat contains nutrients vital for big brains. Intelligent apes will develop special tools to get meat, until eventually they'll make weapons, and won't be scavengers, but predators. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: The dry season is transformed the landscape. It's as if the whole life-blood has drained out of the plains. This is what it means to be a seasonal world - it hasn’t rained for months, there is no greenery left to eat, and there is precious little to drink. Here in Mongolia, mammals have evolved to cope with even these kinds of conditions, but at this time of year they are put under the greatest stress. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about the Indricothere calf] He is never again going to have the protection of his mother. The rest of his life, he will spend alone. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: Some animals can show emotion. These unique creatures are reacting to the death of one of their group with what can only be described as grief. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: One reason that our origins begin here in Africa is that it's an ideal habitat for an upright ape. A patchwork of forest and savannah. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: This is the northern end of the Great African Rift Valley: a staggering landscape, created by fractures in the continent. This is the cradle of evolution for mankind! – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about Australopithecus] A type of ape has evolved that clearly shows the first signs of becoming more human. What makes them closer to us than other apes is not their brains, which are only one third of the size. It's not their skin, which is hairy. It's something they do that other apes just don't: something that will one day lead them to be described as a missing link. These apes walk upright! – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about Deinotherium] They are as tall as giraffes, but weigh fourteen times as much. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: Apes have a long road to travel yet. Outwardly they are almost human, but their brains are no bigger than a chimpanzee's. It will be at least another two million years, before any ape has a decent conversation. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [as the cats creep up on their prey] One false move, and they will have to start all over again. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about Neanderthal] The Neanderthals are supreme hunters, which is why they have lasted over two hundred and sixty thousand years. But they have a weakness; they do not adapt well to change. As a result of the harsher climate, the arrival of other humans, Neanderthals are fast disappearing. In another two thousand years, they'll be gone altogether. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: Smilodon were very successful predators, and survived up until as recently as ten thousand years ago, but eventually the world around them changed too much. The climate became cooler and drier. The larger prey they specialized in killing disappeared. The sabre tooth world came to an end. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about the Giant Ground Sloth] They might be herbivores, but they will eventually go for carrion to supplement their diet, and when they do, nothing gets in their way. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about the Terror Birds] South America is not the only place Terror Birds are doing well. Once the land bridge opened up to North America, they were one of the few creatures to spread north successfully. While these Terror Birds pick over Smilodon's leftovers, their cousins are running riot in Texas and Florida. They only died out just before modern humans appeared. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about Smilodon] There is no such thing as a sabre tooth tiger. The correct name for these beasts is sabre tooth cats, and there have been many different species. The largest, at over 300 kilograms, is this one - Smilodon, which means knife tooth. Originally from North America, they came to South America two million years ago. The balance of life here changed as they took over the role of top predators. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: For forty million years, the plains of South America have been ruled by an awesome group of predators. The aptly named 'Terror Birds'. [after a long pause] But recently all this has changed. A new breed of killer has arrived, one fierce enough to terrorize the Terror Birds. Smilodon, the fabled sabre tooth. The most powerful big cat of all time! – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: [about Hyaenodon] Hyaenodon's jaws have a bone-shattering force of over one thousand pounds per square inch. One bite breaks the Chalicothere's neck. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago
Narrator: The short, violent reign of the brothers is over. – Walking with Beasts Show Quote	added 7 months ago

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