Walking with Beasts
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Walking with Beasts, marketed as Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Sc
The final episode of Walking with Beasts, Mammoth Journey, was filmed in Yukon, Canada
Maquettes of Deinotherium (left) and Australopithecus (right), used to create the computer models in Walking with Beasts
Puppet heads of various animals used for certain shots in the series
Gastornis models from the Walking with Beasts exhibition
Gastornis
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Gastornis is an extinct genus of large, flightless birds that lived during the mid-Paleocene to mid-Eocene epochs of the Paleogene period. Most fossils have been found in Europe, and some species typi
Walking with Beasts
…cut up or played backwards to create creature sounds. The noises of Leptictidium were otter noises, pitch shifted and reversed, and the sounds of Gastornis were made by a monkey and a rattlesnake, slightly edited. Megatherium was voiced through goat noises, though considerably lowered in pitch, Embolotherium…
Gastornis, a large flightless bird from the Eocene of Wyoming
Lemoine's incorrect 1881 illustration of G. edwardsii (now G. parisiensis)
Life restoration of G. steini (now G. giganteus) with outdated, ratite-like plumage, 1917
Reconstructed G. geiselensis skeleton