Episode 42 (insert Hitchhiker’s Guide reference here) sees Marc, Natee and Gemma team up with Andrew Stück, the one and only Dino Dad, as we tackle surely one of the most divisive topics we have ever discussed on this show: the 2025 revival of Walking With Dinosaurs. Will it be a beloved classic like the original 1999 series, an embarassing turkey like the 2013 movie, or something in between? Are we as blown away as we were when we saw our first Diplodocus? Are we as menaced as we were by Liopleurodon? Are our heartstrings tugged as they were when we saw the last journey of Ornithocheirus? Are we as endeared as we were by Leallynasaura? What place is there for a Walking With Dinosaurs in this post-Prehistoric Planet world? Who skipped through the segments of modern-day palaeontology? Can Jim Kirkland save the day? And, most crucially of all: what did Andrew’s children think? It’s all here in today’s action packed episode.
In the News
- Andrew made it to Permian Fest at the Whiteside Museum in Texas!
- Gemma has been to another natural history museum… in Madrid! (I still have to write the review, sorry! Link here once it’s finished – GH)
- Tickets for Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs at the Lightroom in London can be found here!
- Enigmacursor is the new mounted dinosaur at London’s NHM!
- Andrew’s blog, Dino Dad Reviews, can be found here!
Walking With Dinosaurs 2025
Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-episode TV miniseries which aired on BBC One in 2025. Marketed as a “reinvention” (not a remake) relative the original 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs BBC miniseries, the 2025 series combines CGI stories from the Mesozoic era with a greater emphasis on human endeavors to recover and reconstruct fossils. The new series is produced by the BBC Studios Science Unit and PBS, and co-produced by ZDF and France Télévisions.
Clockwise from center: Albertosaurus, Spinosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Utahraptor, azhdarchid pterosaurs
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus
Spinosaurus
Gastonia
Albertosaurus
Pachyrhinosaurus
Lusotitan
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4 Comments
llewelly
July 9, 2025 at 3:24 pmGreat to hear another episode. So sorry you are suffering yet another inferno in this age of ever-repeating infernos … *sigh*
Grant Harding
August 6, 2025 at 9:29 pmFull disclosure, I haven’t seen the new WWD (I have two small children and not a lot of time). But it’s very strange to me that the original WWD is being held up as some kind of untouchable classic, because all I can remember from when it came out was endless MOANING from people like you and me. Too much speculative behaviour, no explanation of what we do and don’t know for sure, dodgy animatronics, ugly T rex heads, not enough feathers, and on and on. And now 25 years later, it’s a classic?
Marc Vincent
August 7, 2025 at 3:41 pmDon’t know if you’ve read this article I wrote in 2019 – does address some of your points. From my personal point of view, anyway (I can’t speak for the other two). https://chasmosaurs.com/2019/10/11/walking-with-dinosaurs-20-years-on/
Grant Harding
August 11, 2025 at 10:36 pmThanks, I think I missed this the first time around.