BBC Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs

Video presented by Paul Chambers

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BBC One's Walking With Monsters tells the forgotten story of the bizarre beasts that ruled our planet millions of years before the dinosaurs. Join the creators of the series, the same team behind Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts and Sea Monsters, as they tell us how life on Earth  began and how we owe our existence to monsters stranger than you could ever imagine.

  • Presented by: Paul Chambers
  • Date: 03 December 2005
  • Duration: 32:16

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