Prehistoric Predators is a 2007 National Geographic Channel program based on different predators that lived in the Cenozoic era, including Smilodon and C. megalodon. The series investigated how such beasts hunted and fought other creatures, and what drove them to extinction.
Production The producers enlisted the help of Chuck Ciampaglio, a geology professor at Wright State University–Lake Campus, to create a model illustrate a shark's jaws. Filming of the episode involving Ciampaglio took place on the university campus in 2008.
Reception Brad Newsome of The Age praised the series for its "lovely computer animations [that] bring several species of these 'terror birds' to life". The Advertiser said the series "shows amazing animations of the shark". According to The Times, in Prehistoric Predators, "Scientists—ably assisted by the prerequisite CGI—recreate some of the most fearsome predators of old", including the Megalodon and the Terror Bird.
Featured animals Pleistocene: 1.8 million-10,000 years ago North America: Smilodon fatalis, dire wolf, short-faced bear, American lion, Bison antiquus, Mexican horse, Columbian mammoth, Megalonyx, gray wolf (cameo), grizzly bear (cameo), early humans
Miocene-Pliocene: 15-3 million years ago South America, North America: Kelenken, Parapropalaehoplophorus, Homalodotherium, Titanis, Canis edwardii, Smilodon gracilis, Neohipparion
Miocene-Pleistocene: 20-2 million years ago The Atlantic: C. megalodon, Cetotherium, Squalodon, dugong, great white shark (cameo), green sea turtle (cameo)
Oligocene-Miocene: 32-19 million years ago North America: Archaeotherium, Hyaenodon, Dinictis, Mesohippus, Poebrotherium, Subhyracodon, Moropus, Merycoidodon, Daeodon, Amphicyon
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Related series When Dinosaurs Roamed America Monsters Resurrected Monsters We Met
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