Walking with Monsters (Abridged Movie Length Edition)

Many people think of the dinosaurs as the first inhabitants of the earth, but this prequel to Walking With Dinosaurs puts viewers in the midst of a host of strange creatures that inhabited the earth millions of years before the dinosaurs existed. With the help of complex computer animation and the research of hundreds of paleontologists, the BBC presents an extremely realistic picture of the Earth's earliest, most primitive inhabitants and chronicles their evolution to the precursors of man himself and the mighty dinosaurs.In this 90-minute, shortened version of the original series, discover how these ancestors of the dinosaurs developed teeth, claws, hooks and spines for defence and attack...why giant insects were destined for eventual extinction while their tiny counterparts survived... how vast coal-forests and dense swamps became home to three-foot-long dragonflies and two-foot-wide spiders...and just what made such creatures as the Dimetrodon, Gorgonosid, Euparkeria and Hyneria so formidable and successful millions of years before the dinosaur age.