David Attenborough's 'First Life'

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

If you haven’t seen this before, it’s worth watching.
Part 1
Part 2
Probably while this doc was in post-production in 2010, the news broke that a possible multicellular life form, an almost certain evolutionary dead end, from 2 billion years ago was discovered, so some of the info might be a little dated. But such is science.

[Frylock]

Let’s have a synopsis. Go on, don’t be shy.

[GuanoLad]

@Frylock

Let’s have a synopsis.

The very earliest beginnings of life and how it evolved into each stage, gaining digestion, sight, limbs, etc.

[Darth_Panda]

From Wiki:

First Life sees Attenborough tackle the subject of the origin of life on Earth. He investigates the evidence from the earliest fossils, which suggest that complex animals first appeared in the oceans around 500 million years ago, an event known as the Cambrian Explosion. Trace fossils of multicellular organisms from an even earlier period, the Ediacaran biota, are also examined. The naturalist travels to Canada, Morocco and Australia, using some of the latest fossil discoveries and their nearest equivalents amongst living species to reveal what life may have been like at that time. Visual effects and computer animation are used to reconstruct and animate the extinct life forms.

First Life (TV series)

Looks cool and I love Attenborough, so I’ll defnitely be checking it out. Thanks for the link Snake.

[MrDibble]

Love it - I have to book, too. Trilobites and Burgess weirdnesses are all much more interesting than boring old dinosaurs, IMO, so I love when they get the full CGI treatment.

[Anaamika]

boomarking to watch at home.

[maggenpye]

Me too. Crossing fingers it’ll be available in this region.

Thanks for sharing.