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Dinophiles, you are in for a treat because Netflix did not just wake up and decide to drop a dinosaur documentary and move on with its day. This announcement has intention written all over it. Time to wake up, people, because something big is coming. The Dinosaurs is a new four-episode documentary series, and the moment the trailer dropped, it became very clear that this is another one of those serious Netflix docs. This is Netflix saying, Shut up and watch how this planet was shaped long before humans showed up.

The series comes from Amblin Entertainment, with Steven Spielberg on board as executive producer, and it is created in collaboration with the team behind Our Planet. And when we’re familiar with Spielberg’s love (obsession) for dinosaurs. Netflix has confirmed that all four episodes will arrive together on March 6, which already tells you how they want this experience. One stretch. No pauses in between.

What really gets you is how far back the series goes. We are talking about around 235 million years ago, on the supercontinent Pangaea. No towering monsters or iconic silhouettes yet. The story opens with Marasuchus, a small proto-dinosaur that barely looks capable of changing anything. Watching the series build from that point is wild because you can see how everything that comes later grows from something so unassuming. This is about origins, not instant spectacle.

As the episodes move forward, the world keeps opening up. Tyrannosaurus rex shows up, obviously, but it does not dominate the narrative by itself. Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus appear inside environments. Plateosaurus and Mamenchisaurus get space too, and that matters, because it stops the series from turning into a highlight reel of famous names.

Then the story takes you further into the oceans. Pliosaurus and Mosasaurus take over the frame, and suddenly, land does not feel central anymore. Spinosaurus moves between land and water, tearing down the idea that dinosaurs lived in neat categories. Early feathered dinosaurs such as Anchiornis and Longipteryx appear later on, connecting prehistoric life to the birds you still see today without spelling it out for you. Oh dinophiles, you are going to love this.

Visually, The Dinosaurs reunites Amblin Entertainment with Silverback Films and Industrial Light & Magic after their earlier collaboration on Life on Our Planet. Netflix says the series is built on current fossil research, with visual effects used to recreate whole prehistoric worlds rather than pulling out individual dinosaurs for show. You are watching environments react to biology, not dinosaurs performing for a camera.

And here comes another stunning part: it will be narrated by Morgan Freeman, whose voice already anchors Netflix’s major nature documentaries. If you have watched Life on Our Planet or Our Universe, you know what that does.

What The Dinosaurs keeps pushing in front of you is a simple truth that hasn’t and never will get comfortable. Power never meant safety. Survival was always conditional. Even the creatures that shaped the planet were responding to forces far bigger than them.