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[00:00:04]A young Gorgonopsian on a mission to irritate his brother.

[00:00:27]Oh, well.

[00:00:28]How about a sneak attack on his [music] mother?

[00:00:33]These Gorgons are early distant [music] relatives of mammals.

[00:00:42]And long as leader of this family, he has fathered [music] generations of young Gorgons with this group of three different mothers.

[00:01:03]For the right to mate, the old alpha shows any signs of weakness.

[00:01:29]It's a good performance if he could just hold on.

[00:01:46]>> [screaming] >> But with creatures this size, he could easily be crushed.

[00:02:03]As long as they remain calm, our little guy should be safe.

[00:02:12]None of which is good news for our youngster.

[00:02:17]Caught in the middle is our young Gorgon.

[00:02:21]One wrong step.

[00:02:30]Our mother succeeded in protecting [music] her little one.

[00:02:36]But in doing so, she made the ultimate sacrifice.

[00:02:44]He doesn't want to leave her side, away from the panicked herd.

[00:03:01]The rising [music] heat is driving our alpha to keep migrating higher.

[00:03:07]For every 1,000 [music] ft higher he leads his family, the temperature drops almost 4°.

[00:03:15]Our Gorgon father continues to lead his starving family higher in search of cooler [music] air.

[00:03:21]Dropping.

[00:03:22]And although it's getting cooler as they climb, lack of oxygen means they are exhausted.

[00:03:26][music] Blood.

[00:03:32]Gorgons have long skulls with huge >> [music] >> He leads his [music] family on.