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'{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2012}} {{Infobox television | show_name = First Life | show_name_2 = ''David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates'' | genre = [[Television documentary|Documentary]] | narrated = [[David Attenborough]] | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_series = <!-- 1 miniseries: can omit--> | num_episodes = 2 | runtime = 60 minutes | first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|2010|11|5}} | last_aired = {{end date|df=yes|2010|11|12}} | website = http://firstlifeseries.com/ }} '''''First Life''''' and '''''David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates''''' is a 2010 and 2013 British [[nature documentary]] series written and presented by [[David Attenborough]], also known by the expanded titles '''''David Attenborough's First Life''''' (UK) and '''''First Life with David Attenborough''''' (USA). It was first broadcast in the USA as a two-hour special on the [[Discovery Channel]] on 24 October 2010. In the United Kingdom it was broadcast as a two-part series on [[BBC Two]] on 5 November 2010. ''First Life'' sees Attenborough tackle the subject of the [[timeline of evolution|origin of life]] on Earth. He investigates the evidence from the earliest [[fossil]]s, which suggest that complex animals first appeared in the oceans around 540 million years ago, an event known as the [[Cambrian Explosion]]. Trace fossils of multicellular organisms from an even earlier period, the [[Ediacaran biota]], are also examined. Attenborough travels to [[Canada]], [[Morocco]] and [[Australia]], using some of the latest fossil discoveries and their nearest equivalents amongst living species to reveal what life may have been like at that time. Visual effects and computer animation are used to reconstruct and animate the extinct life forms. ''[[Attenborough's Journey]]'', a documentary film profiling the presenter as he journeyed around the globe filming ''First Life'', was shown on BBC Two on 24 October 2010. A hardback book to accompany the series, authored by Matt Kaplan with a foreword by Attenborough, was published in September 2010. ==Production== The series was directed by freelance film-maker Martin Williams and series produced by Anthony Geffen, CEO and Executive Producer of [[Atlantic Productions]], with whom Attenborough has collaborated on a number of 3D documentaries for the satellite broadcaster [[British Sky Broadcasting|Sky]]. It was produced in association with the [[BBC]], the Discovery Channel and the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]. During production, it had the working title ''The First Animals''. ==Reception== At the [[News & Documentary Emmy Award]]s in 2011, ''First Life'' won in all three categories it was nominated in, for writing, graphic design and art direction and nature programming.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rosser|first=Michael|title=Attenborough doc wins Emmy hat-trick|url=http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/indies/attenborough-doc-wins-emmy-hat-trick/5032569.article|publisher=Broadcast|accessdate=31 May 2012}}</ref> The series was nominated for its photography and editing at the [[BAFTA Craft Award]]s earlier the same year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Television Craft Awards Winners in 2011|url=http://www.bafta.org/television/craft-awards/winners-2011,2450,BA.html|publisher=BAFTA|accessdate=31 May 2012}}</ref> ==List of episodes==SLOWKZ SDX3CH:. {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="width:100%; margin:left; background:#FFFFF;" |- ! style="background:#A0D0A0; color:#000;" width="3%"|# ! style="background:#A0D0A0; color:#000;"|Title ! style="background:#A0D0A0; color:#000;"|Original air date |- {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber= 1 | Title= Arrival |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|11|5|df=y}} | ShortSummary=: The first ancient living being mentioned in the episode is ''[[Charnia]]'', an [[Ediacaran]] lifeform<ref>1st episode, 04:30</ref> whose fossil was first found in [[Charnwood Forest]]. [[Stromatolites]],<ref>1st episode, 08:12</ref> which still live in [[Western Australia]] are also shown. With the [[palaeontologist]] Dr [[Guy Narbonne]], Attenborough visits [[Mistaken Point#Ecological_Reserve|Mistaken Point]] where there are hundreds of fossils of ''Charnia'' and other animals of which the most common is ''[[Fractofusus]]'' (thousands of specimens).<ref>1st episode, 32:50</ref> In the [[Ediacara Hills]] Attenborough is shown by [[palaeontologist]] Dr [[Jim Gehling]] fossils of ''[[Dickinsonia]]''.<ref>1st episode, 39:00</ref> In the same place there are also fossils of ''[[Kimberella]]'', a [[slug]]-like animal<ref>1st episode, 40:40</ref> and ''[[Spriggina]]''.<ref>1st episode, 43:15</ref> These animals are the first to have been mobile and have [[bilateral symmetry]], ''Spriggina'' being the first to clearly have a head and a tail. In the same hills palaeontologist Dr [[Mary Droser]] shows [[Funisia]]<ref>1st episode, 47:30</ref> the first animal for which there is evidence of [[sexual reproduction]]. In [[Switzerland]] Attenborough visits a very large [[synchrotron]] which is used by Professor [[Philip Donoghue]] to take microscopic [[X-ray tomography|3-dimensional pictures of the interior]] of fossilized [[embryos]], including [[Markuelia]]<ref>1st episode, 55:30</ref> an animal which lived 20 million years after the animals of Ediacara and one of the first to have a [[Gut (anatomy)|gut]]. {{flatlist| ;''[[Charnwood Forest]]'' fossils: : ''[[Charnia]]'' ;''[[Mistaken Point]]'' fossils: : ''[[Charnia]]'' : ''[[Pizza disks]]'' : ''[[Fractofusus]]'' ;''[[Ediacara Hills]]'' fossils: : ''[[Dickinsonia]]'' : ''[[Kimberella]]'' : ''[[Spriggina]]'' : ''[[Funisia]]'' ;''[[Southern China]]'' fossils: : ''[[Markuelia]]'' }} |TopColor = FFFFA0||LineColor = A0D0A0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber= 2 | Title= Conquest |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|11|12|df=y}} | ShortSummary=: One of the first big [[Predation|predators]] was ''[[Anomalocaris]]'',<ref>1st episode, 56:50</ref><ref>2nd episode, 09:55</ref> found in the [[Burgess Shale]] in the [[Canadian Rockies]]. Its prey probably included animals such as ''[[Opabinia]]'',<ref>2nd episode, 06:17</ref> ''[[Wiwaxia]]'',<ref>2nd episode, 07:37</ref> ''[[Hallucigenia]]''.<ref>2nd episode, 08:33</ref> Professor Justin Marshall shows [[mantis shrimp]],<ref>2nd episode, 13:43</ref> which are similar to [[Anomalocaris]]. One of the most successful [[arthropod]] groups were the [[Trilobite]]s.<ref>2nd episode, 20:49</ref> Some of the biggest were the [[Eurypterid]]s, or sea scorpions, such as ''[[Pterygotus]]'',<ref>2nd episode, 33:49</ref> of which a large fossil exists in the vaults of the [[National Museum of Scotland]] in [[Edinburgh]]. ''[[Aysheaia]]''<ref>2nd episode, 37:50</ref> is thought to be the ancestor of the first land animal. A very similar land animal, the [[velvet worm]], ''[[Peripatus]]'' still exists lives in the tropics including the [[rainforest]] in [[Queensland]], Australia.<ref>2nd episode, 38:05</ref> The oldest known fossil of an air-breathing arthropod is the 428 million-year-old ''[[Pneumodesmus]]'',<ref>2nd episode, 42:00</ref> a [[millipede]].<ref>2nd episode, 43:40</ref> {{flatlist| ;[[Burgess Shale]] fossils: : ''[[Opabinia]]'' : ''[[Wiwaxia]]'' : ''[[Hallucigenia]]'' : ''[[Anomalocaris]]'' : ''[[Ammonites]]'' : ''[[Trilobites]]'' : ''[[Aysheaia]]'' : ''[[Pikaia]]'' ;[[Morocco]] fossils:fuckkkkkkkkkk thisss shitbSLOWKZ HOMIE SDX3CH : ''[[Trilobites]]'' ;[[Scotland]] fossils: : ''[[Sea scorpions]]'' : ''[[Pneumodesmus]]'' (identified as land ''[[arthropod]]'') : Unnamed relative of ''[[horsetail]]'' : ''[[Arthropleura]]'' : ''[[Meganeura]]'' }} |TopColor = FFFFA0||LineColor = A0D0A0 }} |} ==''David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates''== In December 2011, a second series of ''First Life'' was announced by media website Realscreen. The new series focused on the evolution of the earliest fish, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, and aired on the BBC in 2013, as ''[[David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates]].''<ref>{{cite web|last=Rajesh|first=Monisha|title=Exclusive: Attenborough, Atlantic teaming up for second "First Life"|url=http://realscreen.com/2011/12/23/exclusive-attenborough-atlantic-teaming-up-for-second-first-life/|publisher=Realscreen|accessdate=17 May 2012}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist|colwidth=15em}} == External links == *[http://firstlifeseries.com/ Official website] for ''David Attenborough's First Life'' *{{BBC programme|id=b00vw49d|title=David Attenborough's First Life}} *[http://eden.uktv.co.uk/shows/first-life/ ''First Life''] on the [[Eden (TV channel)|Eden]] website *''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/07_july/14/nature.shtml#panel2 First Life]'' at the BBC Press Office website (see "Nature" panel on right hand side of page) *{{IMDb title|1766363|David Attenborough's First Life}} {{BBC Natural History Unit}} {{David Attenborough}} {{Italic title}} [[Category:2010s British television series]] [[Category:2010 British television programme debuts]] [[Category:2010 British television programme endings]] [[Category:BBC television documentaries|First Life]] [[Category:Documentary films about nature]] [[Category:Documentary films about prehistoric life]]'