Ice Age’ Guarantees Survival, Snow—and Big Tooth

Apple TV+’s Prehistoric Planet is understood for its hyper-realistic CGI dinosaurs, however the Cretaceous interval is so final 12 months. The third season of this pure historical past docuseries leaps tens of millions of years ahead, inviting viewers to expertise the Ice Age.

Within the season trailer launched November 6, strikingly lifelike mammoths, big floor sloths, dire wolves, and different Pleistocene-era creatures struggle to outlive excessive climatic shifts. The five-episode sequence, narrated by Tom Hiddleston, is about to premiere on November 26.

Touring again in time by means of science

A part of what makes Prehistoric Planet such an immersive expertise is the present’s dedication to scientific accuracy, utilizing information gained from the most recent analysis to make bygone intervals of Earth’s historical past come alive. It took over 1,500 paleoartists, dinosaur specialists, CGI artists, and filmmakers to create the primary season.

“The large ambition of the sequence is to emulate a BBC Pure Historical past Unit wildlife documentary, the type of which we’ve been making for the final 60 years,” Tim Walker, the sequence’ producer and showrunner, told Gizmodo in 2022.

Specialists like paleozoologist Darren Naish play a key function in crafting the present. “It’s been very rewarding and thrilling for me to be embedded throughout the workforce proper from the beginning and to have contributed to, you understand, so a lot of our selections,” Naish beforehand advised Gizmodo.

“And now we have a complete workforce of different specialists that we seek the advice of with in response to their acceptable specialization,” he added.

The Ice Age comes alive

In season 3, viewers will get to expertise clashes between woolly rhinos and saber-toothed cats, delivered to life primarily based on current discoveries of fur, mushy tissues, and abdomen contents preserved in permafrost.

Along with iconic Ice Age megafauna, the sequence will showcase lesser-known species throughout 5 new habitats, from the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi)—the woolly mammoth’s warm-weather cousin—to car-sized armadillos (Doedicurus clavicaudatus).

Within the trailer, these creatures conflict with one another and the climatic extremes they’re struggling to outlive. The season will take viewers from “The Large Freeze” to “The Large Soften,” which presumably is from the Youthful Dryas—a 1,300-year-long chilly snap that occurred some 12,000 years in the past—to the fast international warming occasion that ended the final Ice Age.

Very like this era in Earth’s historical past, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age can be filled with drama. The trailer guarantees a visually gorgeous journey by means of certainly one of our planet’s most transformative eras.