[1] The film premiered on BBC Four on 14 September 2011,[2] and is presented and written by popular historian Tom Holland.

[1] In the spirit of Adrienne Mayor's ground-breaking studies of 2000 and 2005,[3] the documentary explores how fossils may have influenced the mythologies of different cultures, including the Native Americans and the ancient Greeks.

The Greeks, unfamiliar with living elephants, could have misinterpreted the skull's nose cavity as a single eye socket.

[6] Jonathan Wright of The Guardian praised the programme, calling it "precisely the kind of off-kilter but insightful documentary that explains why we need BBC Four.

[4] She enjoyed the segment on Native American mythology, which she found "fascinating," but was more critical of the segment on Greek mythology, writing that "my appetite for TV historians droning on about Homer.... is, I must admit, increasingly limited."