Prehistoric Park - T. Rex Returns

Today on Far Future Horizons we introduce a new series featuring British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven throwing himself into the ultimate challenge: going back in time to rescue prehistoric animals from extinction and bringing them back to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary.

Catastrophe - Episode 4 - Asteroid Impact

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fourth episode of Catastrophe.

This spectacular five-part series, presented by Tony Robinson, investigates the history of natural disasters, from the planet's beginnings to the present, putting a new perspective on our existence and suggesting that we are the product of catastrophe.

Ninety-nine percent of all the creatures that have ever lived, no longer exist. They were wiped-out in a series of global catastrophes. Each disaster changed the course of evolution on earth. Without them mankind, nor any of the life we see around us, would be here today. For out of catastrophe comes rebirth. Evolution is a savage, imperfect and violent process. It's survive or perish. The earth's history of catastrophes has both molded the planet and determined evolution. For each disaster led to another leap forward on the evolutionary trail form single celled bacteria to humankind itself.

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another episode of the acclaimed BBC science documentary series Horizon that investigates the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction that annihilated the dinosaurs and several other species some Sixty Five Million years ago. Was this extinction event really triggered by the impact of an asteroid or comet?

Could one of the best known and most glamorous scientific theories be wrong? Until recently most scientists thought they knew what killed off the dinosaurs. It was a 10 km-wide meteorite which smashed into Yucatan in Mexico. It caused world-wide forest fires, tsunamis several kilometres high, and an 'impact winter' - in which dust blocked out the sun for months or years. It was thought the dinosaurs were blasted, roasted, and frozen to death, in that order.

The Last Day of the Dinosaurs

Today on Far Future Horizons we travel back 65 million years with the acclaimed documentary series National Geographic Explorer to break down the chain of events that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and changed the world forever.

Prehistoric Megastorms ~ Hypercane

Hypercane viewed from space

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of the acclaimed documentary series Prehistoric Megastorms.

Many scientists generally accept the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a ten kilometer wide asteroid, which crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula sixty five million years ago.

This celestial projectile is alleged to have been responsible for wiping out seventy-five percent of all life on earth. But was this asteroid solely responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs?

An impacting body of this size would have released a colossal amount of heat energy into the Earth’s atmosphere generating massive shock waves and winds of unprecedented speed.

Prehistoric Megastorms ~ Asteroid Apocalypse

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode from the acclaimed documentary series Prehistoric Megastorms.

This instalment of Prehistoric Megastorms explores the question of whether or not a future Asteroid impact of apocalyptic proportions is a real possibility in the light of past events in our planet’s antediluvian past.