Watch The CBC broadcast of
First Animals on ‘Nature of Things’
Friday October 25th at 9:00 pm ET
(also on CBC GEM free streaming service)
A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THE EARTH’S EARLIEST LIFEFORMS
“There was an explosion of life in the Cambrian Period…ancient bizarre animals. If it wasn’t for them there wouldn’t be us”
DR. MAYDIANNE ANDRADE
University of Toronto
For most
of its existence, Planet Earth has been a brutal, inhospitable, toxic nightmare, until a half billion years ago when – KABOOM! – life suddenly appeared. THE FIRST ANIMALS, a new documentary from Toronto’s Red Trillium Films, takes you back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us about our origins.
Renowned evolutionary biologist Professor Maydianne Andrade is our guide, showing us how complex – and dangerous – life among THE FIRST ANIMALS really was.
THE FIRST ANIMALS will introduce you to cast of bizarre creatures, including Yawunik, a predator with a deadly, whip-like head-mounted combo of claws and antennae; Metaspriginna, a little fish-like creature with the very first signs of a backbone – making it our earliest ancestor; and a mystery beast nicknamed “Spaceship,” whose identity is brand new to science – and the centre of the film’s detective story.
MORE ON THEIR WEBSITE…
Show Host Reece Alan interviews FIRST ANIMALS Director/Producer Andrew Gregg