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How ‘Life on Our Planet’ Brought Extinct Creatures Back to (Terrifying) Life
Here’s how filmmakers used science to resurrect the dinosaurs and giant squids that once ruled the Earth.
BY PAUL SCHRODT
OCT. 26, 2023

A Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops battle it out, so scaly you want to reach out and touch them. A giant squidlike sea monster floats ominously in the brine, more freaky and menacing than any puny great white shark. A woolly mammoth, 12-feet tall, weighing over 7 tons, stomps through the snow. All as seemingly real as the actually real live-action shots of familiar insects and birds and mountains and rain forests that surround these long-extinct creatures and persist among us today. The new eight-episode docuseries Life on Our Planet, from the producers of Our Planet, is a nature documentary with a difference, augmenting its footage of the world around us with hyperrealistic renderings of long-extinct creatures, brought (back) to life by bleeding-edge technology.