BBC Monsters We Met DVDrip (No Subtitle)

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The first humans left their African homeland 100,000 years ago and began an
epic journey that was to end with mankind dominating the globe. On their
voyages they encountered monster-like creatures and perilous lands that
would test their powers of survival to the very limit.

In this video we journey with them into an unknown world where no man had
set foot before. Each film is a dramatic reconstruction of personal stories
of our ancestors’ struggle for survival in a primaeval wilderness dominated
by formidable predators. A world where man was both hunter and hunted.

Three areas are primarily covered:

1: North America - 13,000 years ago
While the world was still in the grip of the last ice age, humans first
crossed Siberia and entered the New World. They encountered creatures
familiar to them from their travels, such as the woolly mammoth and the
steppe bison, but also a whole host of new marvels. The Americas was the
only continent where humans ever came face to face with sabre-toothed cats,
giant ground sloths or the massive short-faced bears. As the climate warmed
and the ice melted, all these megafaunal marvels vanished. What or who was
responsible for their demise?

2: Australia - 65,000 years ago
Humans travelled out of Africa and reached South-east Asia perhaps as early
as 90,000 years ago. Then around 65,000-68,000 years ago a momentous event
happened - someone discovered Australia. The ancestors of the Aborigines
made a daring sea voyage and set foot on a new and lonely land.

Ancient Australia was a land of drought and fire, with a unique fauna
dominated by marsupials, reptiles and giant flightless birds. The first
Australians shared their home with the two-tonne Diprotodon, the giant
short-faced kangaroo and the platypus. Emus and cassowaries were dwarfed by
the 'demon duck' Genyornis. Predators like the marsupial lion and the giant
ripper lizard, Megalania, stalked the land.

3: New Zealand - 850 years ago
New Zealand was the last major land mass to be discovered and colonised by
humans. A mere 850 years ago, Polynesian seafarers arrived in a land with no
terrestrial mammals. New Zealand was a land of birds, and its avian rulers
were giants: huge herbivorous moas were hunted by Haast's eagle - the
largest eagle the world has ever seen. But within the space of only 100-400
years, the eagle, all the moas and over 20 other species of birds were gone.
Had mankind become the monster?



Technical Specs

Video Codec: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1990 Kbits/s
Video Resolution: 640x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio BitRate: 192 kbps
Audio Channels: 2
Total RunTime: 1 Hour 29 Mins
Number Of Parts: 2
Part Size: ~ 698 MiB