Cenozoic: Age of the Mammals - The Updated Version

Published 2022-03-12
Over three years ago, the Age of… Trilogy was conceived - a new major trilogy of documentary shows that would take viewers on a journey through the prehistoric ages and tell the stories of some of the most awe-inspiring animals that have ever roamed the Earth. First came Mesozoic: Age of the Dinosaurs and its two spin-off shows, followed by its direct sequel, Cenozoic: Age of the Mammals. Taking viewers from mammals’ humble beginnings in the dinosaurs’ shadows to the rise of our own hominid ancestors, Cenozoic unexpectedly became by far the most popular entry in the series and ever since last year’s major updates of the Mesozoic shows, people have been dying to see it receive a remake in the same vein. And well, a lot has changed since we last visited the Cenozoic era, but the time has finally come to return to the realm of mammoths, sabre-tooth cats, upright-walking apes and whale-hunting giant sharks once again.

Music used:
Logo - Galaxy - iMovie
Channel Menu - Soulcalibur Legends
Defenders - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Exploring the Park - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Giganteus - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Preview Ambient - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Creation - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Chicken Mimics - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Primigenius - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Time (Announcement Trailer) - Prehistoric Kingdom (Byron McKay)
Bright - iMovie

Art credits go to:
Mauricio Antón
codylake
AuntSpray
Isaure Scavezzoni
Vlad Konstantinov
Margarita Kuleshova
BatmanelVisigodo
Tim Bertelink
TrefRex
William Snyder
Nobu Tamura
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HodariNundu
Julio Lacerda
Leogon
Roman Yevseyev
Christopher Chávez
Charles R. Knight
Max Bellomio
Cindy Raggo
KookaburraSurvivour / Yip Gam-hou
Alberto Gennari
Dmitry Bogdanov
Herschel Hoffmeyer
José Carlos Cortés
Joshua Knüppe
Roman Uchytel
WanderingAlbatross
Philip Edwin
Zimices
Smokeybjb
Robert Fabiani
Jose Manuel Canete
kingrexy
Mark Witton
Roman Uchytel
Science History Images
Pavel Riha
Megafauna 3D
Supercigale
Sergio De la Rosa
Peter Schouten
Hodari Nundu
Peter Trusler
Dwarf4r
Olorotitan
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Andrey Atuchin
Scott Hocknull
plxpossum
Juandertal
Daniel Eskeridge
Tim Hough
Heraldo Mussolini
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Sebastián Rozadilla
Dantheman9758
DiBgd
AnonymousLlama428
Theo de Jong
Mihin89
Scott Reid
Smokeybjb
George Edward Lodge
Paul Martinson
PalaeoSD
WillemSvdMerwe
J.G Keulemans

Animated Megalodon clip credit goes to:
Julian Johnson-Mortimer

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All Comments (12)
  • Just to clarify a few things about this idea for a show, in case there’s any newcomers here: * YELLOW lettering indicates that a creature serves as a major protagonist in the episode it appears in. * RED lettering indicates that a creature serves as a major antagonist in said episode, unless it’s from the same species as the protagonist like with the Basilosaurus and Archaeotherium. * Like Mesozoic: Age of the Dinosaurs before it, this series’ purpose is to act as a guide through the Cenozoic era, utilising the most up to date science possible to deliver the most accurate depictions of these animals possible. So it’s basically a revised version of Walking with Beasts in all but name. * Also like Mesozoic, this show takes place entirely in prehistoric times and doesn’t feature any cutaways to palaeontologists discussing anything in interviews, but it does take a break from the story to explore the creatures’ anatomies at times like Walking with Monsters. * The fourth and fifth episodes, The Hogs from Hell and Jaws Like a Guillotine, were originally the other way around, but I swapped them around after doing further research into the Oligocene timeline for this update. The same goes for the episodes The Apes Who Became Us and Terror Birds. * Two new episodes have been added since the original version, The Pouched Sabre-Tooth and The Tar Pits. This brings the number of episodes up from twelve to fourteen, the same as Mesozoic: Age of the Dinosaurs. * Brygmophyseter, Carodnia, Chalicotherium, Cynodictis, Entelodon, Granastrapotherium, Odobenocetops, Otodus auriculatus, Paleopsilopterus, Pelagiarctos, Pristichampsus, Ramoceros and Squalodon were intended to appear in this update, but we’re ultimately cut due to either difficulty finding out what their names meant, or because they didn’t fit in the time and place of the episodes I listed them in. * Borissiakia, Boverisuchus, Paraentelodon have been added as replacements for Chalicotherium, Pristichampsus and Entelodon respectively. * Acrophyseter, Aepyornis (the elephant bird), Amphicyon, Archaeolemur, Astorgosuchus, the broad-billed parrot, the cave hyena, the cave wolf, Cerrejonisuchus, Cuvieronius, Desmostylus, Diceratherium, Dorudon, Gigantophis, Glyptodon, Hesperocyon, the Madagascar dwarf hippopotamus, the Mauritius owl, the North Island piopio, Notochoerus, Palaeochiropteryx, Paracrax, Pelagornis, Pelorovis, Piscogavialis, Psilopterus, the steppe bison, Thalassocnus, Thylacines, Titanomyrma, the Waitaha penguin and Wonambi have also been added to the previous episodes since the original upload. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, I’m really not sure when or even if I’ll do an updated version of Palaeozoic: Age of the Bizarre, as I can’t get the title to look like it used to because of iMovie’s more recent updates and I feel like finding out what the creatures’ names mean would be a bit of a pain again, but never say never, as Justin Bieber said giving us one of the only positive messages one could get outta him. Maybe there’s still potential for a return to Palaeozoic, but I just haven’t figured anything out yet. We’ll just have to wait and see.
  • Tales from the ice age should include Neanderthals living with mordern humans. For the outback episode the protagonists should be Genyornis showing how a rather gentle bird could survive among giant reptiles and carnivoreus marsupial. I would also add Palorchestes the marsupial tapir to the episode
  • @alexatozer9227
    What’s the sound effect of dinictis felina? Both of them the same?
  • @hyena_fan
    so what is the plot for each episode