Lost Beasts

At a dig site in America, palaeontologists want to find out how the Tyrannosaurus Rex became the king of the mighty primeval lizards.

Tasmanian tigers, also known as thylacines, lived in Australia for a long time. Their population suddenly fell sharply in the 1920s, leading to their extinction. The last known animal died in September 1936 in a zoo in Tasmania.

Archaeological digs shed light on the extinct beasts of old, from the Tyrannosaurus Rex to the Tasmanian tiger, sabre-toothed tiger, and the woolly mammoth, and look at the legends and myths surrounding them.