The first episode shows audiences the American Serengeti that was once North America, and the unearthing of a Clovis child who came from some of the earliest settlers of Montana. The people hunt Caribou and Mammoths as they hide from the Smilodon and run from Arctodus simus - the dreaded Short-Faced Bear. The second episode is set 65,000 years ago, Australia was a forested land of many green plants and megafauna such as Diprotodon. The continent also housed territorial large birds like genyornis and the menacing giant monitor lizard Magalania. The ancient Aborigine found their way to the shores of this strange land of giant Marsupials and Reptiles. The third and final episode is set in the 1200s, and we catch a glimpse of the Maori traveling to New Zealand after their hero Kupe first discovered this magnificent world of birds and flightless bats. They develop a taste for Giant Moa just as the amazing Haast's Eagle had a new taste for man. However, the fastest extinction process wiped the Moa out, and the Haast's Eagle would follow the bird. The episode continues to show how Hawaii and (to an even more horrifying extent) Easter Island suffered the same fate in the end of the episode.—Preston
"Monsters We Met" takes audiences back in time to the early settlers of North America, Australia, and New Zealand. The series shows us how great an impact human travelers had on the animal's environments all over the world, and how we still affect them to this day. The show, like BBC's previous "Walking With..." series shows us the magnificent wildlife that unfortunately became extinct, and unlike the "Walking With..." series we see how human activities directly ran this ice menagerie to their ends. This is an amazing piece for people who are Anthropology and Paleontology enthusiasts who have much to learn. Not for the faint-of-heart as there are many hunting and mauling scenes, from Megalania, Harpagornis, and Arctodus slaying and feeding on people to hunts of Bison, Mammoths, and Moa.
This is released by BBC and Animal Planet.
