Behold : Exclusive footage from Prehistoric Planet , the upcoming Apple TV+ show that put up viewers some of the most scientifically accurate word picture of dinosaurs to ever grace the screen . This clip depicts the methodical hunt quotidian of Mononykus , a petite , insect - feeding theropod dinosaur placeable for its massive claw .
Narrated by David Attenborough , produced by Jon Favreau and tally by Hans Zimmer , Prehistoric Planet show is a five - instalment series ( one episode will be released every Nox come out May 23 ) that will delight viewers to five different habitats of the Late Cretaceous period , 66 million years ago , around the same time that a meteor impact wiped them all out . In instance you lack the first captivating trailer for the show , it can be foundhere .
This exclusive footage is from the episode on deserts , and features a Mononykus on the hunt . In the time , theroughly dachshund - sizeddinosaur inspects a withered sign in a desert , before rapping on the wood using a claw on one of its stubby forelimbs . Then the dinosaur stab a gob in the log , and slurp up white ant with its prodigious tongue . This depiction is in line withone possibility about Mononykus ’ ecological ecological niche : that the dinosaur hunted like New - twenty-four hour period anteaters and scaly anteater .
Prehistoric Planet is not the first endeavor to feign extinct animate being for the screen , but many of the specific reptiles the show features are being depicted on screen for the very first time .
Each animate being ’ behavior and show was produced with great point give to their actual anatomy and biomechanics , so the show depicts dinosaurs in ways you may not have opine before — and mode that scientific discipline has only lately revealed they lived . There will be footage of dinosaurs in polar regions ( a paperpublished last yeardescribed grounds of the animals nesting near the North Pole ) , and sweeping crack of massive dinosaursmoving in herds .
The show aims to depict the breadth of dinosaur biodiversity as never before — from duck’s egg - bill dinosaurs as bushy as Dr. Seuss character , to sauropods with monolithic , bubble - like accouterment lining their necks .
you may take in Mononykus , Tyrannosaurus , and many other wight of the Cretaceous when Prehistoric Planet unveiling on May 23 .
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