The BBC's landmark, award-winningWalking with... paleo-trilogy concludes with this revelatory three-part prequel that tells "life’s forgotten story," beginning with the origins of life hundreds of millions of years before the advent of dinosaurs. As in Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, state-of-the-art digital technology brings you face to face with bizarre and unknown creatures engaged in mortal combat for control of the earth, among them, the Anomalocaris, earth’s first super-predator; Haikouichthys, the first-ever fish; giant swamp insects; the Siberian Scrutosaurus, a distant ancestor of the turtle; and the Gorgonapsid, the most fearsome pre-dinosaur predator. Walking with Monsters spans the Cambrian, the Carboniferous, and Permian periods, during which life forms emerged from the seas and continued their development on land. In the final episode, harsh climatic events devastate up to 90 percent of all living creatures, leaving a tiny reptile, the Euparkeria, as the spawn seed for the monsters yet to come -- dinosaurs. Naturally (or perhaps spiritually), those inclined to dispute Darwinism will dismiss the program’s evolutionary bias. But there’s no denying the imaginative lure of the presentation. Kenneth Branagh’s narration makes this formidable subject accessible, while the fantastic creatures will engage the imaginations of budding paleontologists.