Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "permian"

1. Animal Armageddon (2009– )

45 min | Documentary, History

This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.

Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel

Votes: 215

2. Primeval (2007–2011)
Episode: Future Foe (2007)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Missing people at Wellington Zoo could be the work of a new creature that came from the future. Helen reappears offering to help but Lester and Claudia are suspicious of her true intentions.

Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Lucy Brown, Douglas Henshall, James Murray, Mark Wakeling

Votes: 451

3. Myron Cook (2022– )
Episode: An Ordinary Looking Nevada Mountainside Reveals Extraordinary Geology and Beauty. (2023)

30 min | Documentary

Valley of Fire State Park contains mountains of beautiful red banded sandstone. But in some cases it's covered by much older dolomite, the same dolomite the sandstone rests on three miles ... See full summary »

Star: Myron Cook

4. Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode: Paleo Profile - Prionosuchus (2015)

4 min | Documentary, History

Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian ever know to exist but it is thought to have looked and behaved more like a crocodile than modern amphibians. It was a s big as a hefty crocodile so why not?

Star: Trey Swenton

5. Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode: Paleo Profile - Dimetrodon (2015)

17 min | Documentary, History

Dimetrodon is a early synapsid. It is a genus of animals in the transition from reptiles to mammals so it is not a dinosaur. Research has overturned many misconceptions about these animals.

Star: Trey Swenton

6. Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode: What Color Were Dinosaurs? (2015)

10 min | Documentary, History

By determining the concentration or melanin in feathered dinosaur fossils and the scales of certain aquatic animals paleontologists are beginning to get an ideas of the color of these animals.

Star: Trey Swenton

7. ExtinctZoo (2022– )
Episode: What Earth Was Like Just Before the Dinosaurs? (2023)

14 min | Documentary, Animation, History

The Permian-Triassic extinction a quarter billion years ago marks the beginning of the age of dinosaurs. But it was tens of millions of year later that life could get back to normal because... See full summary »

8. PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode: Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest (2018)

10 min | Documentary

The Great Dying preceding the Traiasic period left a host of biological niches empty. That left evolution the opportunity to tryout anything and everything on the animals that survived without much competition.