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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BLACKDIRGE" data-source="post: 2702984" data-attributes="member: 1953">I for one, was giddy with excitement when I heard about Before the Dinosaurs. Paleontology has always been a hobby of mine, and while I enjoyed Walking With Dinosaurs and When Dinosaurs Roamed America, I am quite pleased that The Discovery Channel is brave enough to produce shows that focus on more obscure ages in prehistory. I have always found the Paleozoic era to be utterly fascinating, and to see the Cambrian and Silurian seas presented in such a vivid and life-like way was a real treat. In fact, I would prefer an entire show just on the Cambrian, Silurian, and Ordovician, but it was still fun to see the emergence af the tetrapods in the Devonian and Carboniferous and the gorgonopsids and therapsids doing their thing in the Permian.I have really enjoyed this entire series from Walking with Dinosaurs to Before the Dinosaurs, and I think the they have done a bang up job extrapolating prehistoric animal behavior from modern day counterparts. Although there is no way to be certain with regards to the behavior of extinct species, I think its not a huge jump to expect that an animal like Dimetrodon would build a nest and guard it the way modern aligators do, or that a gorgonopsid would lie in wait for prey around a watering hole like lions do today.Anyway, yeah, I loved it, and I hope the Discovery Channel will do more shows in the same vein.Blackdirge</blockquote>