Walking with Monsters (TV Mini Series)

Clash of Titans (2005)

Kenneth Branagh: Narrator

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : Welcome to the Age of Dinosaurs!

• [first lines] 

  Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : After millions of years of evolution, our distant ancestors have filled the oceans and crawled out onto land. They have survived the giant insects of the swamps, and mushroomed into massive reptiles armoured to the teeth. But now they've waged so long is now much more than a battle between predator and prey. The whole planet is entering a different kind of crisis. One that will destroy most of these monster reptiles and wipe out 90% of life on Earth.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : All the continents on Earth have now drifted together to create one giant land mass called Pangaea. And at its center lies the largest desert the world has ever seen.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : The wet season arrives, but there's no rain. With life under such pressure, species are dying out at a rate that won't be matched until humans evolve in two hundred and fifty million years' time.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : [about the water hole]  Within a few days they have drunk it dry.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : The global drought is now obliterating millions of years of evolution. Life everywhere is on the brink.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : As millions of years go by, the climate shifts again, and the reptiles are among the first to recover and repopulate the empty Earth.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : These tough forerunners of mammals seemed poised to seize control for good, but they are in fact set to play out their final scene.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : [about Lystrosaurus]  Astonishingly, their vast herds make up more than half of all life on Earth. Never again will a single species do so well.

• Kenneth Branagh - Narrator : The dominance of these strange, mammal-like reptiles is short-lived. As the planet recovers, so does competition. The brief glory days of Lystrosaurus will soon be gone. This is followed by a decline in all mammal-like reptiles, confining our ancestors to the shadows for millions of years.