Darren Naish

Behold the newest snarling, scurrying, foraging, and feasting dinosaurs and other extinct creatures of Prehistoric Planet.The show’s second season begins May 22 on Apple TV+, featuring over two dozen new species from various branches of the tree of life as it existed some 66 million years ago, give or take a few million (well, don’t take more than a couple.)I spoke with showrunner Tim Walker and Darren Naish, a paleozoologist and the series’s chief scientific consultant, to learn what to expect from the new season and,…

Prehistoric Planet showcases dinosaurs as the itchy, curious, clumsy, and vocal animals they were in life. Apple TV+ today released the teaser trailer for the scientific dinosaur show’s second season, which is set to debut on May 22.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesLast year, for the first time, nature lovers were able to enjoy Sir David Attenborough’s dulcet tones describing planet Earth as no human ever saw it: during the age of the dinosaurs, over66 million years…

The huge Deinocheirus in Prehistoric Planet.Image: AppleThink about all the dinosaur content you’ve ever consumed: books, movies, perhaps a Far Side cartoon. Consider how realistic each dinosaurian depiction was, to your best understanding of how dinosaurs lived. Now, I suggest you compare all that you’ve seen about dinosaurs before to Apple TV+’s newest five-part series, Prehistoric Planet, which shows the true lives of dinosaurs as they were 66 million years ago, to our best current understanding.There are reptiles that…