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

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

David Attenborough embarks on a remarkable 500 million-year journey revealing the extraordinary group of animals that dominate our world, and how their evolution defines our human bodies.

Cast:David Attenborough


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ From the Seas to the Skies

Fri, Sep 20, 2013

This episode describes the essential evolutionary developments that created the major groups of invertebrates beginning with notochords to fish, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs and ultimately birds.

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S1.E2 ∙ Dawn of the Mammals

Fri, Sep 27, 2013

The ancient origins of the first vertebrates, including how they transitioned from water to land.