If Georges St-Pierre was on the hunt for an opponent he couldn’t defeat, his latest venture is a tremendous success.

The former UFC welterweight champion, who stepped away from the Octagon more than two years ago, is searching for the biggest and baddest predator to ever live in his new show “The Boneyard with Georges St-Pierre”,  on the History channel.

GSP has long been a prehistoric life fanatic, admitting he “never read fiction books and things like that [as a child]. I always read about palaeontology … and history,” and with his extended time away from mixed martial arts the 34-year-old Canadian decided it was right to focus his attention on other passions.

“I’m not going to be able to fight for the rest of my life so I tried to explore a different opportunity and I really enjoyed it,” he told TSN.ca.

The show, which will be aired in two half hour specials, features St-Pierre traveling to “the badlands of South Dakota, to the swamps of Alabama, to Argentina’s dinosaur graveyard, Patagonia, in order to reveal the truth about prehistoric life.”

“We’ve been to some great places, in Patagonia, for example, we went to a place where the biggest animal to ever walk the planet lived,” he said. “They are almost the size of a blue whale, but on land … There is nothing today that looks like it.”

The dinosaur - titanosaur sauropod, to be more exact - he’s referring to is the Argentinosaurus, a long-necked herbivore whose bones were discovered by a ranger in Argentina in 1987.

From sitting on the back of an alligator, “I’m riding a dinosaur,” St-Pierre says, to gasping at the site of the skull of a Giganotosaurus (similar to Tyrannosaurus Rex but larger), to eating dirt with a group of scientists, GSP doesn’t shy away from his childlike wonder for the subject matter.

But with an athlete of his stature, every move is scrutinized under a microscope.

What does the show mean for his future? Will we ever seen one of the greatest UFC fighters of our generation in the Octagon ever again? 

St-Pierre isn’t giving out any hints, but he did say he is not ready to close the door on his fighting career.

“I miss it, but everything is possible,” he said. “We’re still talking to the UFC. We’re on good terms, but nothing has changed.”

Speculation of GSP’s return to the UFC has ramped up in 2016, culminating with his attendance at UFC 196 at the beginning of March. Sitting cage side for the event headline by Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz, it was believed the UFC was using one of its biggest events to date as a precursor to announce the return of one of its biggest names.

It’s a reality St-Pierre admits he can’t control.

“It is what it is. That’s how the world works,” he said. “I never changed my statement.”

In his absence, the torch has been passed to B.C. native and one of GSP’s training partners Rory MacDonald. The 26-year-old Canadian is gearing up to fight American Stephen Thompson in the main event at UFC Fight Night 89 in the organization’s debut show in Ottawa, Ontario.

MacDonald has not fought since July 2015 after a devastating fifth-round TKO loss at the hands of welterweight champion Robbie Lawler. It was MacDonald’s first title fight, but St-Pierre believes it won’t be his last.

“He can bounce [back] and become stronger from that. It’s not how you win, it’s how you come back from a defeat that defines you,” he said. “I’m friends with both of them, Rory and Stephen Thompson, and I’m going to watch the fight. It’s going to be hard to watch but I just hope nobody gets hurt seriously and the best man wins.”