Documentaries about life before dinosaurs?

[Megalosaurus]

Hello.
I started as a dinosaur lover child, but when I grew up my interests in other prehistoric life forms grew with me.
I'd like to know your recomendations of documentaries about life before dinosaurs. I'd like to see from precambrian to the triassic. I specially enjoy to see the actual fossils, not just CGI.
And I already watched "Walking With Monsters".
May you recomend me some documentaries (or entertainment shows) about life before dinosaurs?
Thank you.

[tyrantqueen]

I'd recommend Dinosaur Revolution/Dinotasia, simply for the gorgeous CGi, but I understand it's not a series for everyone. I think it had a segment on the Triassic. It tends to stray from the documentary side of things into storytelling. And it also tends to anthropomorphise its protagonists.

[Gwangi]

You should try to find the old television series "Planet of Life". It came out in the 90's on Discovery Channel. The best episode of the bunch IMO concerned the Cambrian period and early vertebrate evolution. The entire series is on Youtube, good luck finding it elsewhere. It exists on VHS but I don't think a DVD was ever produced.

Here is the episode I was talking about, "Ancient Oceans".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvvr-BOJ9A

Also check out the David Attenborough series "First Life".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR-yMiyquG4

And if you do a Youtube search for "PaleoWorld" you'll no doubt find some episodes of that, another show from the 90's concerning prehistoric life in general.

[triceratops83]

Australia a Time Traveller's Guide is general prehistory doco but has a good chunk devoted to the paleozoic and earlier. Worth watching, the best aussie produced documentary ever.

[goodlife18]

There is this old documentary series called "Paleoworld". There is one episode that focuses on animals before dinosaurs, namely Dimetrodon. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQ3OHvLHCM

[ignite444]

Here's episode two of David Attenborough's "First Life" series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCCvKYTYZQ