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AFTER ALMOST FOUR YEARS OF WAITING...#SurvivingEarth HAS FINALLY COME!
Created by Impossible Pictures and TIM HAINES, i.e., the masters behind the Walking With series, will SE be yet another glorious success? MOST LIKELY YES!
TRAILER BREAKDOWN...BEGINS NOW! (1/?) Image
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Our first shot is a tree being struck by lightning. This is a scene that may remind you of the Dimetrodon segment in Walking with Monsters, and as you'll see later, this indeed is most likely from a Permian sequence...Though probably not the one Dimetrodon will appear in. (2/?) Image
Carboniferous forests burning...
This forest is a mixture of photoreal VFX and live action elements from a PRACTICAL FX FOREST the team built for the series! (3/?) Image
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A small amniote helplessly watches as its world is turned upside down...(4/?) Image
Yes, the aforementioned first shot is most likely a shot from the episode centred on THE BIG DYING--THE PERMIAN EXTINCTION! (5/?) Image
Some sort of toxodon, most likely Mixotoxodon...(6/?) Image
A HUGE HERD OF SCUTOSAURUS! (7/?) Image
Triassic period? Some sort of giant ichthyosaur, attacking a...What is this thing? Some sort of dinosauromorph...? Or something more closely related to pterosaur side of the archosaur family tree? (8/?) Image
Fighting Gorgonopsids! (9/?) Image
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Some early dinosaur...Zupaysaurus, maybe? (10/?) Image
DIMETRODON! A VIVID, BEAUTIFUL CREATURE! (11/?) Image
A moist, misty forest. Rain pouring down. (12/?) Image
Two Saurosuchus cornered a herd of Ischigualastia...But a flood swallowed them all! Even a mighty pseudosuchian like Saurosuchus cannot survive the relentless forces of nature....(13/?) Image
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THE GREAT DYING...HELL ON EARTH...(14/?) Image
A new iteration of K-Pg...(15/?) Image
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NANUQSAURUS..(16/?) Image
SPINOSAURUS...helpless in the face of an oncoming tsunami...(17/?) Image
One of the greatest predatory dinosaurs of all time is not going to survive Earth, apparently. (18/?) Image
Arctodus footprint...? (19/?) Image
Is this Meganeura?...Insects frozen in a flash....(20/?) Image
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Cold forests, frozen mountains...(21/?) Image
Wilson, L. et. al,. (2025). Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous. Science (New York, N.Y.), 388(6750), 974–978.
Yes, I'VE SEEN THIS BIRD IN THIS ARTWORK BY GABRIEL UGUETO, WHO HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE ARTISTS WHO WORKED ON SE!
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Fighting gorgonopsids. Gorgonopsid has fallen out of the map...(23/?) Image
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THIS SHOT!
The pliosaur Brachauchenius has been brutally thrown onto the shore by the tsunami...(24/?) Image
Cotylorhynchus!!! (25/?) Image
We've seen this shot before...Ischigualastia hatchling...(26/?) Image
Based on the patterns, this may not be an Ischigualastia hatchling. Some Permian dicynodont, perhaps? (27/?) Image
When life refuses to end. (28/?) Image
An artwork by Dr. Mark Witton coming to life...A prehistoric shark (likely Cretoxyrhina) grabbing a Pteranodon sternbergi...
WE ALSO SEE THE PRACTICAL FX NODOSAUR MADE BY MANGOSTONE (the studio that also made the dead Ankylosaurus in The Dinosaurs)! (29/?) Image
A family of gorgonopsids! (30/?) Image
Brachauchenius mother and calf! (31/?) Image
Some kind of early sauropodomorph...(32/?) Image
Ichthyornis and Spinosaurus...(33/?) Image
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Hello, who are you? Why the weird face?
Honestly I don't know what this thing is. Somebody help me in the comments, please.
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We see the baby speens from the still revealed a few days ago, and then...THIS!!!
GIANT, BIOLUMINESCENT ORTHOCONES INTERACTING!
This age of paleo media makes cephalopods look insanely cool. (35/?) Image
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Cute baby Cuvieronius! (36/?) Image
Arctodus mother and calf. Another instance of Arctodus that...actually looks like a bear and feels authentic. (37/?) Image
Early mammals crossing a river. But the water holds dangers. As we know based on BTS photos, Kosmodraco lurks below...(38/?) Image
Baby Cyamodus!
See them in all their wonderful detail HERE!

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Cuvieronius journey...(40/?) Image
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Smilodon lurking in the undergrowth...(41/?) Image
What...are these? Some said these are Coryphodon, but I'm not sure...(42/?) Image
Dimetrodon Attacking! (43/?) Image
HADROSAUR POWER MOMENT! NANUQSAURUS BEING BRUTALLY TRAMPLED AND THROWN ABOUT BY STAMPEDING EDMONTOSAURUS! (44/?) Image
Don't mess with Cuvieronius. (45/?) Image
With a beautiful shot of Cuvieronius feasting on meadows alongside Eremotherium and Mixotoxodon, we come to the end of this trailer...and the end of this thread.
ONTO JUNE 11, THEN!
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