BBC Dinos 24/7 Dr Alice Roberts looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that humans reached Australia almost before anywhere else. 2026-05-15 How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first people through. 2026-05-15 A dig hopes to excavate the 2000-year-old tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's First Emperor. 2026-05-15 Veteran archaeologist Ned Kelly and a team of scientists investigate the find of a mummified body in the boglands of Cashel, Ireland. 2026-05-15 Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs. 2026-05-15 The explorers find themselves trapped on the plateau high above the Amazon jungle, surrounded by prehistoric horrors. 2026-05-16 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how earthquakes and faults have shaped human history by bringing both life and death. 2026-05-16 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how rocks have influenced the architecture of the Mediterranean, from the pyramids of Egypt to the squares of Ancient Greece. 2026-05-16 Tracing the history of cave paintings. 2026-05-16 Dr Iain Stewart examines how the rocks beneath our feet played a crucial role in determining the beliefs of ancient civilisations. 2026-05-16 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how ancient civilisations learned to exploit the water around them, from the flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds to the fall of the Roman Empire. 2026-05-16 Dr Iain Stewart looks at how salt has played a crucial role in the history of the Mediterranean, from the ice ages to the preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt. 2026-05-16 America was once home to such fierce predators as the giant short-faced bear and the sabre-toothed tiger. 2026-05-16 In Australia 65,000 years ago, the first human explorers face a land populated with giant lizards, killer rhino-like creatures and deadly birds. 2026-05-16 When the Maori first discovered New Zealand 850 years ago, they discovered a strange landscape, inhabited by the largest bird to ever walk the Earth and the deadliest aerial predator since the time of the dinosaurs. This film tells the story of their endeavours to survive in an alien land. 2026-05-16 Chris Packham is out to determine whether the Himalayan Yeti and the Sumatran Orang Pendek exist. 2026-05-16 Chris Packham embarks on a mission to investigate the existence of the mythical giant squid. 2026-05-16 Chris Packham searches for clues related to the existence of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. He also visits Australia to learn about a giant lizard called Megalania. 2026-05-16 Chris Packham sets out in search of stories about Bigfoot, a mythical ape-like creature that has been the focus of many fiction novels, movies and documentaries over the years. 2026-05-16 Chris Packham explores the English countryside to learn about mythical big cats such as the Beast of Bodmin and Beast of Exmoor. 2026-05-16 Chris Packham investigates whether the thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, has truly gone extinct. The species lived in Australia and Tasmania. 2026-05-16 It is only in recent years that experts have unearthed the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived. One monster eclipsed all others, more than seven times as heavy as Diplodocus was the immense Argentinosaurus. 2026-05-16 A new generation of carnivores was about to take killing to the next level. At the end of the Cretaceous period, these new hunter killers had spread throughout the globe. 2026-05-16 A look at bizarre dinosaurs such as the curious buck-toothed Epidexipteryx, the amazing four-winged Microraptor and the pot-bellied Nothronychus. 2026-05-16 Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour. 2026-05-16 David Attenborough learns that descendants of the dinosaur age are alive and well. David explores how they survived the catastrophes that wiped out other species. 2026-05-16 Exploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while posing the question whether they engaged in a fight against the Argentinasaurus. 2026-05-16 Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops. 2026-05-16 Here, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend. 2026-05-16 Part 1/4. David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death. 2026-05-16 Part 2/4. Could pterodactyls fly? And why did trilobites have such good eyes? David Attenborough investigates the secret lives of animals from the past, as told in the fossil record. 2026-05-16 Part 3/4. David Attenborough uncovers dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert and visits the biggest, most spectacular dinosaur displays in the world. 2026-05-16