Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs Gallery Guide
About Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs at Lightroom celebrates our natural world through captivating storytelling, breathtaking visuals, and groundbreaking technology, in collaboration with Apple TV+ and BBC Studios Natural History Unit.
In Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs, we’re exploring the profound idea that life is a continuous story—powerful, resilient, and ever-changing. By immersing audiences in the spectacular lives of dinosaurs, we remind ourselves that humans are not separate from nature, but part of its unbroken narrative, living on the very same planet that these magnificent creatures once inhabited. Through awe-inspiring scale, endless cycles of life and death, ingenious survival strategies, and intimate connections across deep time, we come to realise that Earth, our prehistoric planet, is a shared home—one that links us directly to the dinosaurs, bound together by the resilience, wonder and continuity of life itself.
Through this epic journey, viewers step inside some of the most beloved scenes from seasons one and two of Apple TV+’s Emmy Award-nominated series Prehistoric Planet, and encounter a vast array of dinosaurs (from ammonites to mosasaurs, Adalatherium to the Tyrannosaurus Rex) at the most pivotal moments of their lives. As escapist as it is educational, the show includes never-before-seen material, including exclusive extended CGI scenes and bespoke illustrations. Lightroom’s state-of-the-art 360 projections allow viewers to see these majestic creatures at an awe-inspiring scale and travel alongside them through dangerous deserts, soaring skies, and the deep sea.
Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs was directed and designed by 59 Studio in close collaboration with the makers of Prehistoric Planet, Apple TV+, and Executive Producer and BBC Studios Natural History Unit Creative Director Mike Gunton. The show also includes the original score by multiple Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer, Anže Rozman and Kara Talve for Bleeding Fingers Music.
Cast List
Raising the Young
This chapter explores how prehistoric creatures cared for their offspring, from nurturing behaviors to survival strategies. In this chapter you see Isisaurus mothers lay their eggs in the Deccan Trap Volcanoes, followed by their young hatchlings taking a perilous route to safety, under the threat of a Rajasaur. Next, a group of Turangisaurus protect a birthing mother from a giant underwater predator, Kaikaifilu.
Tree of Life
Tree of Life examines the evolutionary connections between species, showing how life diversified and adapted over millions of years, that all birds descended from dinosaurs, and that all life is connected. Diving into the world of the T-rex, we follow a male post-kill, navigating an encounter with a female T-rex who becomes a mate.
The Age of Giants
This chapter delves into a time when the largest animals ever to walk the Earth ruled the land. It explores how evolution responded to escalating predator size, resulting in creatures like the colossal Dreadnoughtus. A dramatic battle scene brings these giants to life, and a life-sized dinosaur display lets visitors measure themselves against them at 1:1 scale.
Monsters in the Mind
Monsters in the Mind investigates how myths, legends, and our imagination have been shaped by fossil discoveries and prehistoric creatures. It features a thrilling nighttime scene as two T-rex meticulously hunt a group of Edmontosaurs.
Unearthing the Past
This chapter reveals how scientists investigate the prehistoric world through fossils. We follow the journey from the death of an Alamosaurus on a beach, through the fossilisation process, to its eventual discovery and interpretation—demonstrating how palaeontologists piece together the story of life long gone.
Patterns in Evolution
Here we explore recurring themes in evolution, such as convergent evolution, environmental adaptation, and survival strategies—with a special focus on the evolution of flight, illustrating how different species evolved similar solutions to shared challenges. In an iconic scene from the TV series, we see Pterosaurs and Velociraptors engage in a tense cliffside hunt.