# 1996 VHS • Eyewitness Prehistoric Life 60 FPS

Eyewitness Prehistoric Life is a documentary program from the BBC Eyewitness series, tracing the full span of life on Earth from the Big Bang through the emergence of modern humanity. The program covers creation mythology from Chinese and Aboriginal Australian traditions before moving to scientific accounts: the Big Bang, Earth's formation 4.5 billion years ago, the primordial soup, the oldest known fossils of algae at 3.5 billion years, multi-celled life and the Ediacaran soft-bodied fauna, the Cambrian explosion including Hallucigenia and its later reinterpretation, Cathernocystis, trilobites and their compound eyes, the first jawed fish and the armored Dunkleosteus, radiocarbon and uranium-238 dating methods pioneered in part by Marie Curie, the colonization of land by plants and then arthropods, Gondwanaland and continental drift, the first amphibians and the coelacanth fossil connection, the cockroach lineage beginning in the coal-age forests, Gigantoscorpio and giant dragonflies of the Carboniferous, Mary Anning's ichthyosaur discovery at age 11, Pangaea and the distribution of identical fossils across South America and Australia, Tyrannosaurus rex and the giant pterosaur reconstructed in the Nevada desert at half scale, the two great extinction events, mammal evolution from warm-blooded nocturnal hunters through the South American mixed-up mammal, Darwin's theory of natural selection and the Galapagos tortoise evidence, Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) and the…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1996
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-EyewitnessPrehistoricLife)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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