DC Planet of Life (1995) Part 2 Ancient Oceans

Earthquakes, volcanoes, ice ages, landslides, floods, life evolution, plate motions—all of these phenomena have interacted over the vast expanses of deep time to sculpt the dynamic planet that we live on today. This Emmy award-winning Discovery Channel series traces the four-billion-year evolutionary history of the world covering the origin and evolution of life on Earth. Each episode covers a separate chapter in the biography of the world, the geological, physical and chemical conditions in which life might arise. Examine the birth, development, and destiny of earth. Series is narrated by Stacy Keach, and produced in conjunction with NHK network.

Part 2: Ancient Oceans

Imagine a five-eyed lobsterlike creature hovering above the ocean floor, bringing food to its mouth through a long, wormlike trunk tipped with spines. Is this on Mars? No, it's an Opabinia regalis, an ancient creature whose discovery originally caused paleobiologists to laugh, and just one of dozens of 3-D computer-animation and life-size models in the series. This episode examines the history of oceans, which are thought to be the cradle of life on earth. Descend into the deep of Earth's Ancient Oceans to witness the explosion of life preserved today in the British Columbia's Burgess Shale as bizarre Cambrian fossils and their fascinating reconstructions , and how life may have moved from water to land.

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