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Jayce and Viktor risk it all for their research. An epic showdown between old rivals results in a fateful moment for Zaun. "Exclusive: Attenborough, Atlantic teaming up for second "First Life "". ^ "Television Craft Awards Winners in 2011".The oldest known fossil of an air-breathing arthropod is the 428 million-year-old Pneumodesmus, a millipede. A very similar land animal, the velvet worm, still lives in the tropics including the rainforest in Queensland, Australia. Aysheaia is thought to be the ancestor of the first land animal. Some of the biggest were the Eurypterids, or sea scorpions, such as Pterygotus, of which a large fossil exists in the vaults of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. One of the most successful arthropod groups were the Trilobites. Professor Justin Marshall shows mantis shrimp, which are similar to Anomalocaris. Its prey probably included animals such as Opabinia, Wiwaxia, Hallucigenia. One of the first big predators was Anomalocaris, found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. In Switzerland Attenborough visits a very large synchrotron which is used by Professor Philip Donoghue to take microscopic 3-dimensional pictures of the interior of fossilized embryos, including Markuelia an animal which lived 20 million years after the animals of Ediacara and one of the first to have a gut.Ĭharnwood Forest fossils Charnia Mistaken Point fossils Charnia Pizza disks Fractofusus Ediacara Hills fossils Dickinsonia Kimberella Spriggina Funisia Southern China fossils Markuelia In the same hills palaeontologist Dr Mary Droser shows Funisia the first animal for which there is evidence of sexual reproduction. These animals are the first to have been mobile and have bilateral symmetry, Spriggina being the first to clearly have a head and a tail. In the same place there are also fossils of Kimberella, a slug-like animal and Spriggina. In the Ediacara Hills Attenborough is shown by palaeontologist Dr Jim Gehling fossils of Dickinsonia. With the palaeontologist Dr Guy Narbonne, Attenborough visits Mistaken Point where there are hundreds of fossils of Charnia and other animals of which the most common is Fractofusus (thousands of specimens). Stromatolites, which still live in Western Australia are also shown. The first ancient living being mentioned in the episode is Charnia, an Ediacaran lifeform whose fossil was first found in Charnwood Forest.
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The series was nominated for its photography and editing at the BAFTA Craft Awards earlier the same year. During production, it had the working title The First Animals.Īt the News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2011, First Life won in all three categories it was nominated in, for writing, graphic design and art direction and nature programming. It was produced in association with the BBC, the Discovery Channel and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series was directed by freelance film-maker Martin Williams and series produced by Anthony Geffen, CEO and Executive Producer of Atlantic Productions, with whom Attenborough has collaborated on a number of 3D documentaries for the satellite broadcaster Sky.
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First Life is a 2010 British nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, also known by the expanded titles David Attenborough's First Life (UK) and First Life with David Attenborough (USA).