How to watch David Attenborough's Prehistoric Planet season 2 FREE

Sir David Attenborough is rightly a legend in broadcasting around the world thanks to his legacy of highly informative, beautifully shot, dramatically thrilling nature documentaries.

Last year he gave his narration talents to Prehistoric Planet, a five-episode series that ran on Apple TV+, and now he's back again for season two, which can be watched for free by signing up for a seven-day free trial.

Sir David? Not at the BBC? Well, yes and no. He's worked with other broadcasters before, but in this instance, the fictionalised documentary series is co-produced by the BBC Natural History unit and MPC, one of the best special-effects houses in the business. Fictionalised because real-life footage of dinosaurs is just a trifle too hard to shoot.

Watch Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV+

FINALLY someone acknowledged that many dinosaurs had feathers in the first round of episodes. Opening with a shot of a Tyrannosaurus going for a swim, the eye-opening visuals and accompanying narration just keep on coming, featuring Pterosaurs staggering around on their wrist bones (or is it elbows?), Alcione hatchlings battling to survive a predatory attack by a 9-foot Phosphatodraco ('dragon of the phosphate beds'), and a Tuarangisaurus and its 10-foot newborn babies who literally eat rocks to help mash up their food.

Prehistoric Planet 2 has five more episodes with a focus on islands, the badlands, swamps, oceans and North America, which brings a first look at the Quetzalcoatlus, a giraffe-sized giant reptile that can stand up to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Furthermore it's co-produced by none other than Jon Favreau, who, while best known as Happy Hogan in the Spider-Man films, is also the director of the likes of Iron Man and The Jungle Book.

Acclaimed musician Hanz Zimmer also provides the soundtrack over the breathtaking visuals as we travel over 66 million years back in time to see all-new species of dinosaurs never seen on screen before.

Prehistoric Planet has 10 episodes available to view on Apple TV+, home of Ted Lasso, Severance and Slow Horses.

Subscriptions cost £4.99 or $4.99 per month, but there's a seven-day free trial offer. You get the first seven days free and can cancel any time – so if you decide after gorging on dinos that the service isn't for you, then you can opt out.

You can also get three months free with the purchase of eligible Apple products. So if you were thinking of getting a new iPhone…

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