# Prehistoric Planet: a new Attenborough documentary about dinosaurs by Apple TV and the BBC

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There’s a related full-length Attenborough documentary called _Dinosaurs: The Final Day_ that is separate from this series. It’s about the amazing fossil field in North Dakota that seems to contain a snapshot record of the events immediately following the asteroid impact. A review of the documentary here:

> **[Dinosaurs: The Final Day With David Attenborough review – a thrilling slice...](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/15/dinosaurs-the-final-day-with-david-attenborough-review-a-thrilling-slice-of-time-travelling-detective-work)**
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> The awe-inspiring broadcaster vividly brings dinosaurs’ last terrifying minutes to life in this slick, gripping and elegiac feature-length documentary

A thread about it here:

> [@The KT impact: deaths on the day found in Dakota](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kt-impact-deaths-on-the-day-found-in-dakota/831757):
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> BBC story [here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47755275). Scientists have found creatures that were killed on the day of the impact and were immediately covered by mud and thus preserved as fossils. Amazing.

Personally I was delighted to see an actual high-quality documentary about this amazing discovery that had previously only been discussed in a scientific paper and a couple of magazine articles.

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