The Best Prehistoric Seas & First Life Documentaries

Dinosaurs & Prehistory - 13 free documentaries about prehistoric seas & first life.

Start with What On Earth Were The Conodonts? (22 min, Ben G Thomas), then What Did Megalodon Actually Look Like? (21 min, Ben G Thomas). All 13 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on prehistoric seas & first life is Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould.

• What On Earth Were The Conodonts? (22 min, Ben G Thomas)
• What Did Megalodon Actually Look Like? (21 min, Ben G Thomas)
• Could You Survive The Devonian Period? (with Hank Green!) (55 min, PBS Eons)
• Could You Survive The Cambrian Explosion? (44 min, PBS Eons)
• When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas (10 min, PBS Eons)
• From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying (12 min, PBS Eons)
• Could You Survive The Carboniferous Period? (54 min, PBS Eons)
• Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct (11 min, PBS Eons)
• How Big Was Megalodon Really? (20 min, Ben G Thomas)
• New Spinosaur Discoveries & Giant Pliosaurs | PaleoRewind 2023: May (18 min, Ben G Thomas)
• When Prehistoric Marine Reptiles Ruled the Waves | BoneHeads (39 min, Ben G Thomas)
• An Animal To Rival Megalodon? - The Giant Killer Sperm Whale Livyatan (15 min, Ben G Thomas)
• The Not Quite Turtles of Prehistoric Oceania - Animal of the Week (13 min, Ben G Thomas)

Top-Rated Books About Prehistoric Seas & First Life

1. Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould - View on Amazon
2. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
3. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday - View on Amazon
4. The Crucible of Creation by Simon Conway-Morris - View on Amazon
5. Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey - View on Amazon