BBC Dinos 24/7
United States
BBC Dinos 24/7 is a cable channel available in the United States that focuses entirely on prehistoric life. Its programming consists of documentary series and specials about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the geological eras in which these animals lived. Content draws heavily from the BBC’s natural history library, including programs originally produced for BBC Earth and other factual strands. Episodes typically examine dinosaur behavior, fossil discoveries, and the science behind extinction events. The channel does not carry news, sports, or entertainment programming; its schedule is built around long-form factual content aimed at viewers interested in natural history and earth sciences.
Viewers can access BBC Dinos 24/7 through most major cable and satellite providers in the United States. The channel also offers a live stream through select online TV services that carry the full linear feed. TV guide listings for the channel are published by local providers and typically repeat episodes across different time slots to accommodate various viewing schedules. No on-demand library or companion app is currently associated with the channel.
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00:53 - 01:27
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors...
LIVE 01:27 - 02:04
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Reptile's Beginnings
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile...
02:04 - 02:40
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry...
02:40 - 03:15
Walking with Dinosaurs
New Blood
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History, Documentary, Science
The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.
03:15 - 03:52
Walking with Dinosaurs
Time of the Titans
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
This programme travels 152 million years into the past to a planet dominated by mighty, long-necked sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the earth. There were no birds, flowers or grass, and the land was carpeted by fern prairies and coniferous forests.
03:52 - 04:28
Walking with Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs, Cruel Sea
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
A look at the world as it was 149 million years ago - in the late Jurassic Period. The old continents have broken up and much of the land is under water. Huge shallow seas have supported a revolution in marine life.
04:28 - 05:02
Walking with Dinosaurs
Giant of the Skies
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
A mind-expanding trip back through time to look at how the skies of 127 million years ago were dominated by huge flying reptiles, some as large as aeroplanes. The programme also follows the extraordinary journey of the pterosaur, which flew for thousands of miles in order to...
05:02 - 05:37
Walking with Dinosaurs
Spirits of the Ice Forest
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
This programme looks at the Cretaceous period, 106 million years ago. Volcanic activity forces the continents apart, and dinosaurs diversify into a range of species to cope with environmental extremes. The landmass that will become Australia and Antarctica is in sunlight for...
05:37 - 06:13
Walking with Dinosaurs
Death of a Dynasty
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
Looking at the closing chapters of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, when the world is poisoned by massive volcanic activity. Among the fields of burning ash, the dinosaurs struggle for survival, oblivious to the Earth's impending collision with a giant comet.
06:13 - 06:48
Walking with Beasts
New Dawn
Series, Documentary, Science
Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land.
06:48 - 07:22
Walking with Beasts
Whale Killer
Series, Documentary, Science
A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.
07:22 - 08:00
Walking with Beasts
Land of Giants
Series, Documentary, Science
Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons! The only threat to an adult would have been the hyaenodon which was the size of a rhino and had jaws that could crush...
08:00 - 08:36
Walking with Beasts
Next of Kin
Series, Documentary, Science
The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne...
08:36 - 09:11
Walking with Beasts
Sabre Tooth
Series, Documentary, Science, Docudrama, Animals, Nature
Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.
09:11 - 09:48
Walking with Beasts
Mammoth Journey
Series, Documentary, Science, Docudrama, Animals, Nature
Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting...
09:48 - 10:48
Science of Walking With Beasts
Triumph of the Beast
Series, Science
This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet.
10:48 - 11:48
Science of Walking With Beasts
The Beast Within Us
Series, Science
A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.
11:48 - 12:47
Walking With Cavemen
First Ancestors
Series, Documentary, History, Science, Miniseries
The lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens.
12:47 - 13:47
Walking With Cavemen
Blood Brothers
Series, Documentary, History, Science, Miniseries
Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago.
13:47 - 14:23
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors...
14:23 - 14:57
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Reptile's Beginnings
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile...
14:57 - 15:32
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry...
15:32 - 16:08
Walking with Dinosaurs
New Blood
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History, Documentary, Science
The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.
16:08 - 16:42
Walking with Dinosaurs
Time of the Titans
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
This programme travels 152 million years into the past to a planet dominated by mighty, long-necked sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the earth. There were no birds, flowers or grass, and the land was carpeted by fern prairies and coniferous forests.
16:42 - 17:16
Walking with Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs, Cruel Sea
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
A look at the world as it was 149 million years ago - in the late Jurassic Period. The old continents have broken up and much of the land is under water. Huge shallow seas have supported a revolution in marine life.
17:16 - 17:53
Walking with Dinosaurs
Giant of the Skies
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
A mind-expanding trip back through time to look at how the skies of 127 million years ago were dominated by huge flying reptiles, some as large as aeroplanes. The programme also follows the extraordinary journey of the pterosaur, which flew for thousands of miles in order to...
17:53 - 18:30
Walking with Dinosaurs
Spirits of the Ice Forest
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
This programme looks at the Cretaceous period, 106 million years ago. Volcanic activity forces the continents apart, and dinosaurs diversify into a range of species to cope with environmental extremes. The landmass that will become Australia and Antarctica is in sunlight for...
18:30 - 19:05
Walking with Dinosaurs
Death of a Dynasty
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
Looking at the closing chapters of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, when the world is poisoned by massive volcanic activity. Among the fields of burning ash, the dinosaurs struggle for survival, oblivious to the Earth's impending collision with a giant comet.
19:05 - 19:42
Walking with Beasts
New Dawn
Series, Documentary, Science
Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land.
19:42 - 20:19
Walking with Beasts
Whale Killer
Series, Documentary, Science
A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.
20:19 - 20:53
Walking with Beasts
Land of Giants
Series, Documentary, Science
Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons! The only threat to an adult would have been the hyaenodon which was the size of a rhino and had jaws that could crush...
20:53 - 21:28
Walking with Beasts
Next of Kin
Series, Documentary, Science
The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne...
21:28 - 22:05
Walking with Beasts
Sabre Tooth
Series, Documentary, Science, Docudrama, Animals, Nature
Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.
22:05 - 22:39
Walking with Beasts
Mammoth Journey
Series, Documentary, Science, Docudrama, Animals, Nature
Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting...
22:39 - 23:38
Science of Walking With Beasts
Triumph of the Beast
Series, Science
This episode explains how the 120-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when mammals became the fastest and fiercest creatures on the planet.
23:38 - 00:38
Science of Walking With Beasts
The Beast Within Us
Series, Science
A look at the science that has proved Darwin's idea that intelligent, sophisticated humans have an ancestral connection with the ape.