1부 “새로운 생명”

2억 2천만년 전인 삼첩기, 지구에 ‘판게아’라는 거대한 대륙이 하나 있었다.

이 대륙은 사막이 뒤덮고 있었지만 점차 새로운 생명이 정착되고, 저지대 습지엔 ‘코엘로피시스’가 공룡시대의 서막을 연다.

Episode One: "New Blood"
220 million years ago - Late Triassic - Arizona

The episode followed a female Coelophysis as she tried to survive in the dry season. The Coelophysis was shown hunting a herd of Placerias, looking for weak members to prey upon. Early pterosaurs (specifically Peteinosaurus) were featured, depicted cooling themselves in what little water was present during the drought. A female rauisuchian (Postosuchus, one of the largest carnivores alive in the Triassic) was shown following the Placerias herd, and kills one of the members. Still searching for food, the Coelophysis are shown discovering a burrow of the small mammal-like cynodont, one youngster strays too close and is eaten, The father cynodont attempts to protect the youngster, but to no avail. At night, the pair of cynodonts are shown eating their remaining young, then moving away. The female Postosuchus is later shown to have been wounded by Placerias's tusks (the wound is on her left thigh), and is beaten out of her territory by a rival male Postosuchus. Wounded, sick and without a territory, the female dies and is eaten by a pack of Coelophysis. Finally, the wet season comes again, and the Coelophysis have survived, along with the cynodont pair. The episode ends with the arrival of a herd of the prosauropod Plateosaurus, foreshadowing the future dominance of giant sauropod dinosaurs as depicted in the second episode.

*Coelophysis
*Placerias
*Cynodont
*Peteinosaurus
*Postosuchus
*Plateosaurus


2부 “화려한 지배자”

1억 5천 2백만년 전인 쥐라기 후기, 지구상의 생물은 가장 화려한 단계로 접어 든다. 거대한 익룡이 하늘을 지배하며, 육중한 해양 파충류가 바다에서 풍부한 먹이를 찾고 있다.

Episode Two: "Time of the Titans"
152 million years ago - Late Jurassic - Colorado

This episode followed the life of a young female Diplodocus. After hatching at the forest edge, she and her siblings retreat to the safety of the denser trees. As they grow, they face many dangers, including predation by Ornitholestes and Allosaurus, and a Stegosaurus, which kills one while swinging its tail. Close to adulthood, the group of young Diplodocus are nearly all killed by a huge forest fire and fire storm that night, leaving three, then two survivors including the female. They are driven out onto the open plains, where they find a herd. The protagonist female mates, but not long afterwards is attacked by a bull Allosaurus. She is saved when another Diplodocus strikes the Allosaur with its tail.

*Diplodocus
*Ornitholestes
*Stegosaurus
*Anurognathus
*Allosaurus
*Brachiosaurus


3부 ”잔인한 바다”

1억 4천 9백만년 전, 대륙들이 분열되고 수중 화산활동으로 지각변동이 심화되었다. 바다에는 상어가 어슬렁대고 다양하고 화려한 해양파충류가 황금기를 맞이한다.
오늘날에는 그들 중에서 거북류만이 생존한다.

Episode Three: "Cruel Sea"
149 million years ago - Late Jurassic - Oxfordshire

The Ophthalmosaurus breeding ceremony is the main event of the episode, but sharks and other predators, including Liopleurodon[1] are on the hunt. The opening portrays a Liopleurodon snatching a Eustreptospondylus from the land, but there is no evidence of this ever occurring (according to the producers, they were influenced by similar attacks by Killer Whales on land creatures). A pod of Opthalmosaurus arrive from the open ocean to birth. Many of the babies slip out successfully. But when one mother has trouble giving birth, a pair of sharks go after her, but are frightened off by a bull Liopleurodon, which swallows the front half of the Opthalmosaurus, leaving the remains to sink down. Meanwhile a Eustreptospondylus swims to an island. It discovers a carcass and must fight another Eustreptospondylus for it, though the fight really consists of them roaring at each other. In the end of the episode, a typhoon kills many Rhamphorhynchus, and washes the Liopleurodon ashore and he is then suffocated by his own weight and is eaten by a pair of Eustreptospondylus. The episode however ends on a more positive note, as it shows that the juvenile Ophthalmosaurus have survived the storm, and are now off to live and breed in the open sea.

*Cryptoclidus
*Ammonite
*Ophthalmosaurus
*Rhamphorhynchus
*Hybodus
*Liopleurodon
*Eustreptospondylus