Underplayed Gems

Triumph of the Vertebrates (2013)

Triumph of the Vertebrates poster
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
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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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