Animal Armageddon

Animal Armageddon
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Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Running time	3 hours
Original release
Network	Animal Planet
Release	2001

Animal Armageddon(Animal Armageddonin English) is a television series that talks about the most dangerous mass extinctions that occurred in the history of our planet, and what creaturesThey inhabited our planet for many millions of years and which of them survived and evolved and yet which of them disappeared and became extinct during the disasters.

Episodes

1- Rays of Death

• 450/436 million years ago, Ordovician/Silurian

The first episode begins showing a planet containing the dangerous gamma which one of these comes off and crosses the galaxy through the millions of years light entering our galaxy crashing to earth and which causes the dangerous creatures that disasters live there like Nautiloids that we see them chasing the Trilobites and a group of marine fish called Astraspis that are eaten soon after by a group of marine scorpions called Euripteridea. After the rays hit the earth took place many disasters to which the creatures were put to the test and tried in every way to survive as a group Astraspis seen before trying to get away for the fact that because of the gamma rays food began to run out but by the time they and the other animals have not yet decided to leave. They are then shown the enormous glaciers from the south who have started to move and destroyed and killed many of the sea creatures that lived there as the cameroceras of which many of them are killed by water pressure while they were going down in depth surviving the dangerous glaciers. Returning then to the north we see the herd of Nautiloids that he is succeeding to get along great but the young people of these and therefore no Euripteridi if they take advantage to kill them and eat them thus causing the extinction of these cephalopods. The final scene of the episode shows how life is resumed quickly after the events caused by gamma rays which have survived the cameroceras, the Euripteride that has evolved into a new type of sea scorpion called Pterygotus that roams the seas hunting a group of fish called acanthodians that have evolved by Astraspis.

Animals appeared

• Trilobite
• Nautiloide
• Astraspis
• Euripteridea
• Cameroceras
• acanthodians
• Pterygotus

2- Hell on Earth

• 377/375 million years ago, Devonian

In this period we see that life has improved after the events caused mass extinction occurred in the previous episode. However, a volcanic plume starts to erupt signaling the start of a new extinction massa.Tra which a giant fish named Dunkleosteus and other animals begin to flee for their vita.In another area shows a group of amphibians called Tiktaalik coming out of the water to escape, to the fearsome fish called Eusthenopteron. In those same waters a group of small fish called Materpieces, trying to survive by giving in light of the small vivi.Poi in subsequent years the mass extinction caused a severe drought, which killed many of one kind of fish called bothriolepis. In these same years, the trees have dried up, indicating that the vegetation is dying die doing so most of Tiktaalik, and in turn dies Dunkleosteo that the mammoth became extinct due to lack of prey and cannibalism took place between his species and finally also the Materpieces you estinse.Poi del'episodio the final scene shows how life is resumed quickly even in the Devonian and other animals including the Pterygotus, the Trilobites and acanthodians began to thrive in this period where some of these creatures as the bothriolepis survived, but now have become the prey of a new amphibian called Ichthyostega, a distant descendant of Tiktaalik.

Animals appeared

• Dunkleosteus
• Bothriolepis
• Tiktaalik
• Eusthenopteron
• Materpieces
• Ichthyostega
• Pterygotus,Trilobites,acanthodians and cameroceras also appear in this episode.

3- The Great Dying

• 250 million years ago, Permian

In this program we will see one of the most dangerous mass extinctions called the Great Death the most catastrophic event that the earth had ever known. At the beginning of the episode the Earth was a peaceful place where you lived several species of plants and animals that swarmed. Intro of the series says: "What would be needed to kill off life on Earth. To kill every living creature that was around for the whole world in a barren desert. 250 million years ago. What happened. The result a volcanic apocalypse, unlike other eruptions ever recorded in the history of our planet. During the Permian all continents were one land mass called Pangea a wonderful place and lush, but the catastrophe has caused the destruction of this paradise in which all of us are asking? This was the worst catastrophe that has occurred on Earth, and that the world has ever endured. Who will survive the Great Death ?, all this we will see in Animal Armageddon.

Lystrosaurus, gorgonops, dicynodont and Thrinaxodon dominate the world for a long tempo.Poi mountains of Siberia that during that period were the dangerous volcanoes erupted a lava that came out of the ground and destroyed everything, has also caused a flood of lava that covered the entire Pangea in 48 ore.Poi in one scene we see the lava that kills a Listrosauro trapped on a roccia.Poi low levels of oxygen global warming has dropped and caused a global cooling spoken of, but is not shown in the episode. Then, also a acid rain that kills all plants and at that moment eruptions continue and continue.

Because of this the Pangea became so hot that the ocean currents stopped and lost the ossigeno.Poi new bacteria in the ocean have produced a deadly gas called hydrogen sulfide and choked everything around it in across the land and killing many animals including the mighty gorgonops that is struggling to survive and now has become the prey of Proterosuco (a crocodile carnivore also lived in Triassic). After many years the mass extinction ended, but many animals as gorgonops, the Dicinodote, trilobites and sea scorpions became extinct, along with most of the other creatures of which only three survive or are Listrosauro, the Trinaxodonte and managed Proterosuco to get away, along with sharks and a few other life forms that populated the Pangea for many millions of years during the Triassic until appeared around the same time other new creatures with these here populated the Pangea for a long time.

Animals appeared

• Lystrosaurus
• Gorgonops
• Thrinaxodon
• Proterosuchus
• dicynodont
• Pterygotus and Trilobites also they appear in this episode, and are extinguished.

4- The Strangled

• 200 million years ago, Triassic/Jurassic

It's been nearly 50,000 years since the largest mass extinction wiped out much of the living creatures. But now everything has changed because new creatures will thrive including Dinosaurs as Staurikosaurus and Lystrosaurus and mammals such as the Megazostrodon, but they are not the pianeta.I rulers of our real rulers are the absolute & nbsp; Arcosauridae are the ones that dominate our world like Desmatosuchus and Rutiodon. However, all this is about to change, because, Pangaea is beginning to break down, resulting in part a new mass extinction that marks the end of the Triassic period and early Giurassico.Per luck dinosaurs and primitive mammals can survive and get by through their lungs developed, but those of Arcosauridae and synapsids left (not shown nel'episodio) do not have it made because of their design of the lungs. This causes the Desmatosuchus become easy prey to kill for Staurikosauro. Several Pterosauria as the 'Eudimorphodon begin to starve, thankfully they also survive thanks to the increase of the carcasses of Arcosauridae. Later when finished disasters also ended this mass extinction that ended in a thousand years fa.Tra creatures that do not have it made as the Desmatosuchus and Rutiodon became extinct. Those survivors are the Staurikosauro, the Eudimorfodonte, the Lystrosaurus and Megazostrodon, and so ruled the Earth for many millions of years until it evolved into the giant dinosaurs of the Cretaceous like Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Animals appeared

• Desmatosuchus
• Staurikosaurus
• Megazostrodon
• Rutiodon
• Eudimorphodon
• Tyrannosaurus Rex,Triceratops,Troodon, Anatotitan,Purgatorius,Gorgonops,Lystrosaurus and Thrinaxodon;all make cameo.

5.6-Doomsday and Panic in the Sky

• 65 million years ago, Cretaceous

In several kilometers from space huge asteroid hitting the Gulf of Mexico, killing some of the most famous dinosaurs of that period. However this was nothing compared to an asteroid the size of Mount Everest terra.Gli will hit the Earth's inhabitants did not notice anything strange. A Anaedmontosaurustitan eats quiet when then is attacked by two Troodons that they jump on him and wound him, when suddenly a Tyrannosaurus Rex emerges from the trees by attacking Troodons, killing one of them while the other runs away and then kills the 'Anaedmontosaurustitan and begins to eat him, completely unaware of the danger he was incontro.Poi the next scene shows a herd of giant crocodiles called Fobosuchi basking in the sun on the coasts and seas in a Mosatyilosaurus kills a lone Ammonits with one shot of bite unaware of what is about to happen. Later shows the asteroid hitting the Yucatan Peninsula, causing the Day of Judgement which creates many disasters such as fire incinerating dinosaurs and mammals such as the Purgatorius and Insects are hidden under the ground. Within 5 minutes in Texas causing huge tsunamis that sweep in a second the Fobosuchi and Anaedmontosaurustitans doing extinguished many of loro.Da far Alaska is hit by an earthquake, strives Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Triceratops and Anaedmontosaurustitans to stand still. Subsequently the meteoric fragments fall on the ground, killing several dinosaurs and causing burns on the wings of a couple of Quetzalcoatls. Just less than 6 hours, tsunamis become larger, while drowning dinosaurs living in the coast of West America. As for the dinosaurs of Mongolia instead is quiet because the effects of the asteroid have not got there, but that caused a sandstorm that buried them alive. Meanwhile, the fire became more and more dangerous in America.Per the full year the largest mass extinction in the history of our planet caused other terrible catastrophes that did extinguish many of the dinosaurs that survived. All this we will see him in the sixth episode of panic in the sky. It's been two days since the asteroid crashed into the ground, endangering some of the most ferocious dinosaurs. After three days, a T-rex, weakened by hunger, tries to kick a Triceratops, but instead he is killed dall'erbivoro.A from 1 week, acid rain starts to pour, causing many dinosaurs very hungry. After 2 weeks the terrible acid rain, kill some of the dinosaurs Mongolia and America as the Tarbosaurus and the Alamosaurus. Then one month later, the' Darkness caused dall'asteroide begins to block the sun's rays, not allowing herbivores not see well. After four months, all the herbivorous dinosaurs, and most of the plants die, but the remaining few herbivores do it to sopravvivere.Nei next three months, our carnivorous dinosaurs protagonists sought food to eat that would herbivores were (that survived), together with their uova.The Troodons instead are lucky to see in the dark and to eat mammals, lizards and insetti.Poi for 8 months, the carcasses begin to decline for the T-rex that because of this he is forced to eat the members of its own species. Any herbivore was not would have died from 9 months and mezzo.La final scene of the episode shows that 10 months after the last T-rex (or maybe the only one) has lapsed, ending the reign of the dinosaurs that instead He went along with that of Pterosaurs and mosatylosaurs, of which only some of them became extinct forever, and then after the demise of marine reptiles the seas were dominated by Sharks, from fish and some marine animals survived the extinction, together Purgatorius. Once the clouds disappeared and disasters ended, mammals along with descendants of the dinosaurs dominated the earth for millions of years.

Animals appeared

• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Triceratops
• Tarbosaurus
• Protoceratops
• Anaedmontosaurustitan
• Troodon
• Mosatylosaurus
• Deinosuchus (called Phobosuchus)
• Alamosaurus (called Titanosaurus)
• Velociraptor
• Quetzalcoatlus
• Purgatorius
• Ammonits

7-Fire and Ice

• 74,000/10,000 years ago, Pleistocene

A herd of Elasmotheriums is framed at the beginning of the episode while grazing in the meadows of the island of Sumatra. A couple of Leopard of Sumatra begins to hunt them. However, the hunt was not favorable, because of a terrible disaster caused by the Toba Supervolcano that exploded and destroyed all the vegetation of the island. Frightened by the eruption of the Leopards and Elasmotheriums try to escape, but he is sterminati.In that day also the ancestors of humans that lived on the island saw the eruption and were now endangered because of this. Then the Supervolcano created a quantity of ash that rose up in the air and have expanded throughout the Asia also hitting the Vietnam, where a group of Gigantopithecus is trying to escape .in that moment arrives a couple of Puma Giants that attacks one of the apes, who defeated them and then was smothered to death. India also the ash cloud has expanded and destroyed much of the vegetation, and the lack of food herbivorous mammals such as Stegodon is trying to escape the ash cloud from which survives together with Cave Lion that survives thanks to their caves. After the end of the billions of years since it took place the eruption began a new era called Ice Age. Thousands of years later, the Woolly Mammoth, descendants of Stegodonts thrive in this ecosystem with wings humans who survived too.

Animals appeared

• Elasmotherium
• Leopard of Sumatra
• Gigantopithecus
• Giant Puma
• Stegodon
• Cave lion
• Woolly Mammoth
• Humans

8-The Next Extinction

• Holocene

Scientists recorded a meteor. They study its course and find that you crash into the ground, particularly in New York. People learn about it and the government starts to build underground shelters. In recent days some people go crazy and so unleashed a revolt and protesting with the strikes on New York.La meteor that destroys the human race has survived, but with a smaller population. Those who did make it were mostly people who were already used to having little access to modern technology. Some people, with a lot of technology have made it, but not so many of loro.Poi, then is framed on the streets of New York destroyed a large cockroach that is looking for food and trying to avoid larger predators as the giant rat that grabs the cockroach and kills him, but a hawk takes it in the viewfinder. The bird swoops chasing the mouse at a distance, but just as he was about to grab the largest rodent decided to leave the dead cockroach, just at that moment the hawk grabs him and uccide.Poi the final scene shows the del'episodio humans who build gadgets that could avoid such a disaster, if it happens we will use nuclear weapons to defend ourselves.

Animals appeared

• Man
• Cockroach
• Hawk
• Giant rat
• Tyrannosaurus Rex,Triceratops, Anatotitan,Troodon, Purgatorius and Megazostrodon all do a cameo.

External links

• AnimalPlanet.com