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.
Schedule
00:18 - 00:53
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...
00:53 - 01:52
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.
01:52 - 02:52
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.
02:52 - 03:51
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.
03:51 - 04:51
Walking With Cavemen
Blood Brothers
Series, Documentary, History, Science, Miniseries
Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago.
04:51 - 05:49
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a...
05:49 - 06:46
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of...
06:46 - 07:45
Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John...
07:45 - 08:47
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
The Birth of Art
Series, Art, History, Documentary, Miniseries
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art and how it reflected the civilisation's religion, through thirty extraordinary masterpieces.
08:47 - 09:49
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
The Golden Age
Series, Art, History, Documentary, Miniseries
Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun.
09:49 - 10:50
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
A New Dawn
Series, Art, History, Documentary, Miniseries
Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the...
10:50 - 11:52
Secrets of the Pyramids
Episode 1
Series, History, Documentary
Exploring fresh archaeological excavations that shed new light on the lives of those who worked tirelessly on the pyramids.
11:52 - 12:26
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.
12:26 - 13:01
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.
13:01 - 13:38
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...
13:38 - 14:15
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...
14:15 - 15:17
How to Build a Dinosaur
Special, Documentary, Educational
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in...
15:17 - 16:41
The Lost World
The Lost World
Series, Adventure, Fantasy, Miniseries
Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs.
16:41 - 17:40
Horizon
My Pet Dinosaur
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
Exploring the idea of human coexistence with dinosaurs. Had the species not disappeared from the face of earth ages ago, keeping them as pets could have been a possibility.
17:40 - 18:43
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Special, Documentary, Nature
David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as...
18:43 - 19:44
How to Build a Dinosaur
Special, Documentary, Educational
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in...
19:44 - 20:44
Horizon
Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard.
20:44 - 21:43
Iceman: Mummy From the Stone Age
Special, Documentary, History, Science
The discovery of a 5,000-year-old male mummy in the Austrian Alps has enabled scientists to re-create a vanished world.
21:43 - 22:43
Horizon
The Day the Earth Melted
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
The earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs.
22:43 - 23:52
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
Killer Dinosaurs
Series, Science
Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.
23:52 - 00:51
Horizon
The Last Mammoth
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
According to new evidence, the Woolly Mammoth went on roaming until about the time the Pyramids were built.