Life on Earth: The Greatest Story Ever Told

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Join Life on Earth to appreciate the all of it's beauties and the importance of us humans urgently making a different to protect such precious creatures on our planet. all kinds of things can now be deduced – the relationship between individual species, the date in its evolutionary history at which any particular characteristic appeared, and even the precise way in which it did so. One of these LPs found its way into the hands of Jonny Trunk, owner of independent label Trunk Records, who negotiated the licence from the BBC. Maybe, thousands of years ago, birds and reptiles from continental South America had reached the Galapagos, unintentional passengers on the rafts of vegetation that float down the rivers and out to sea.

I have used familiar English names rather than scientific Latin ones so that when an animal makes its appearance in this history, it is quickly recognised for what it is. This technique, which requires extremely sophisticated methods of analysis, will always remain the province of the specialist. These represent times when the land rose, the seas drained away and the seabed became dry so that the deposits that had accumulated on it were eroded away. Overall a very good quality service from this seller and I would not hesitate to recommend this seller.

Here Darwin’s questions about the creation of species recurred, for in these islands he found fresh variety. This text tells how life has evolved from the simple molecules of the primaeval soup into the complex plants and animals that now inhabit the Earth's lands and seas. Perhaps the most dramatic have been those made in China of small dinosaurs with the clearly identifiable remains of feathers covering many parts of their bodies.

Initially, the films we made tried to document the lives of particular animals showing how each found its food, defended itself and courted, and the ways in which it fitted into the community of animals and plants around it. The coelacanth is shown as a fish with bony fins that could have developed into legs, and the lungfish is able to absorb gaseous oxygen. There were cormorants, black, long-necked diving birds like those that fly low along Brazilian rivers, but here in the Galapagos, their wings were so small and with such stunted feathers that they had lost the power of flight. He states, "The placenta and the womb between them provide a degree of safety and a continuity of sustenance which is unparalleled in the animal world.Since this is an exceptional fate for most of them, we are never likely to know from fossil evidence anything approaching the complete range of land-living animals and plants that has existed in the past. It made possible all sorts of marvellous explorations of new sounds which could then be made into music. Stepping out of the plane and into the muggy, perfumed air of West Africa was like walking into a steam laundry.

I know Attenborough saw this video, and I hope he knows that the continuity of his work is transgenerational. Edward Williams' avant-garde score matched the innovative production techniques of the television series.They include the orangutan, the gibbon, the chimpanzee and the primate with whom Attenborough has arguably his most famous encounter, the mountain gorilla. Examples of primitive mammals that are still alive today include the treeshrew, the desman and the star-nosed mole. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.