#life on our planet

[cressidium]

Arandaspis in Life on Our Planet (2023)

[sarcopterygiian]

i think we need a series of documentaries for people who ALREADY know a bunch about the topic. like i 100% love the ones like “our planet” that make science accessible and interesting, but they have to take 30 minutes to explain what evolution is. i want some that ARENT afraid to be jargony, that get into the real specifics. scientific papers are great but i think we deserve some fun cinematic netflix-david-attenborough-morgan-freeman documentaries please and thank you

[etchif]

[shadesofecclescakes]

Watching Life on Our Planet and feeling very attacked by Morgan Freeman and some prehistoric (probably gay) dinos rn

[followthebluebell]

tragic! local man's ability to fully enjoy tv show ruined by narrator's inability to pronounce the word 'cephalopod'. :(

[cretaceous-kid]

friends don’t let friends watch Life On Our Planet

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

SO THIS IS A THING

[clobertina]

First Fish was a POGGER fr fr lol

PREHISTORIC POGS

[the-art-cave]

Triceratops's mouth just looks like a featherless finch with a fashionable horn

[vickysaurus]

Life on Our Planet trailer dropped!

[harpagornis]

Life On Our Planet Review

Planet review

Prehistoric Planet seems to indeed have heralded a new age of prehistoric documentaries, and some like this one take new creative insights. Rather than being something akin to a David Attenborough documentary, Life On Our Planet jumps around between different eras, explaining the various principles of evolution and even cutting to modern wildlife scenes to illustrate the point.

Unfortunately, it falls rather short on two main ways:

The animation and animal depictions just aren’t up to par. Maybe this is an unfair critique given that it probably didn’t have the budget of Prehistoric Planet, but many of the extinct taxa don’t have the same level of care put into them and either look cartoony or like outdated depictions.

It has way too many inaccuracies. The first episode, for instance, boasts that sharks are living fossils (something long understood to not be the case), that terror birds were outcompeted by sabertoothed cats (also long understood to not be the case) and that mammals “were a footnote” in the time of the dinosaurs (Repenomamus and others disagree)

That said, the series has a few redeeming moments, like the accurate orthoceratids and focus on Permian life forms. Just wish they would fully cancel the shortcomings.

[cressidium]

Gorgonopsid in Life on Our Planet (2023)

[sallysurisue]

The Smilodon using the Doedicurus as a scratching post!

[eddieintheocean]

im watching the netflix show life on our planet

how the fuck do they know how giant millipedes had sex??? how do they knoiw that t-rex males showing their necks to females is the biggest show of trust????? did they die in these positions and make fossils like it???????

[short-horse]

I am so sick of the "Herbivores are harmless" trope. I'm sitting at home watching that Netflix documentary when suddenly

Life On Our Planet Documentary: This is Maiasaura, a gentle plant eater. How the hell do you know that?

Life On Our Planet Documentary: *Also shows Maiyasauras being aggressive towards each other in a nesting colony* Yes, territorial barking at another herd member to keep them away from your nest is the very definition of gentle.

Life On Our Planet Documentary: This is Triceratops, it's not as defenseless as the Maiyasaura because it has horns. Horses can still fuck up a predator and they don't have horns. Hippopotamuses are herbivores and also do not have horns. They are extremely aggressive. Zebras are too. I don't know how to break this to you, documentary, but Maiyasaura wasn't a tiny little animal. It was 30 feet long and weighted at least as much as an African Elephant and they probably used every bit of that mass to defend themselves. They're not just gonna go "Oh darn... I've been captured may as well just lie down right here and let them eat me for I am just a humble eater of plants. I do not know how to protect myself because my food never runs away." They had mouths, they could bite. Their mouths were beaked and designed to chew up incredibly tough plant matter. Do you think getting bitten by something with a beak and mouth that large wouldn't hurt a predator or rival? Just look up photos or videos of mustangs fighting each other. Horses also don't have horns or claws. Just teeth perfect for clipping grass and they injure each other with bites and blows in fights. What if it used it's tail to swat, too? I've been whipped by an Iguana's tail and that hurts. Iguanas are not hadrosaur sized. Imagine getting smacked by the tail of an animal that massive. Not having horns or spikes doesn't make an animal defenseless. Life On Our Planet Documentary: *shows Triceratops getting attacked by a Tyrannosaurs and needing the others in its herd to be safe* I'm sorry? I thought you said that Triceratops could defend itself. Suddenly it needs safety in numbers and not just it's pointy headgear to survive an attack? Am I overreacting? Yes. But if folks get to complain about carnivores being portrayed as mindless killing machines in media then I can complain about herbivores being portrayed as dull, gentle giants because they don't (usually) eat meat.

The documentary is still very good so far and the animation alone is worth the watch. However, I haven't even made it past the first episode yet without getting salty over idiotic tropes that apply some semblance of morality to an animal based on its diet. An animal we don't know even know everything about and cannot observe today because it's extinct.

[ruthkearneydaily]

ARTHROPLEURA | Primeval (2007-2011) ; Life on our planet (2023)