Triumph of the Vertebrates (2013)

Original title

David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates

Directed by

David Lee

Genre

documentary television film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h

Rated

6

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

David Attenborough narrates this documentary about how vertebrates evolved. The film moves from early sea creatures to the rise of mammals, using a computer-generated timetree to show millions of years of change.

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What happens

Triumph of the Vertebrates is a 2013 British documentary film by David Attenborough. It is about the evolution of vertebrates. The first part is From the Seas to the Skies, while the second is Dawn of the Mammals. The film uses a circular timetree of life generated by scientists S. Blair Hedges and Sudhir Kumar, from their TimeTree database, as a temporal framework for the production. The timetree was created using animated computer-generated imagery in scenes every 10 minutes during the 2-hour movie. The circular timetree was published by Hedges and Kumar in 2009 and Hedges was consulted during the production of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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