The first humans left their African homeland 100,000 years ago and began an epic journey that would put an end to mankind over the world. In his travels he met monster-like creatures and perilous lands that would test their survival skills to the limit. In this series that travels with them in an unknown world where no man had set foot before. Each film is a dramatic reconstruction of the personal stories of the struggle of our ancestors to survive in a primitive wilderness dominated by formidable predators. A world where the man was both hunter and hunted.

While the world was still in the grip of the last ice age, humans first crossed Siberia and entered the New World. They encountered creatures familiar to them from his travels, such as the woolly mammoth and steppe bison, but also a whole host of new wonders. The Americas is the only continent where humans never met face to face with saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths or the massive short-faced bears. As the climate warmed and melted the ice, all these wonders megafauna disappeared. What or who was responsible for her disappearance?

Humans traveled out of Africa and Southeast Asia reached perhaps as early as 90,000 years ago. Then, about 65.000 to 68.000 years, an event happened – someone discovered Australia. The ancestors of the Aborigines made a daring sea voyage and set foot in a new land and lonely. Ancient Australia was a land of drought and fire, with a unique fauna dominated by marsupials, reptiles and flightless giant birds. The first Australians shared their home with the Diprotodon two tons, the giant short-faced kangaroo and the platypus. Emus and cassowaries were dwarfed by Genyornis the ‘demon duck’. Predators like the marsupial lion and giant ripper lizard, Megalania, stalked the land.

New Zealand was the last major land mass to be discovered and colonized by humans. Just 850 years ago, Polynesian seafarers arrived in a land without land mammals. New Zealand is a land of birds, and their rulers avian giants: huge herbivorous moas were hunted by Haast’s eagle – the largest eagle in the world has ever seen. But in the space of only 100 to 400 years, the eagle, all the moas and over 20 species of birds were gone. Had mankind become the monster?

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