Planet of Life ★ Emmy winning series on the origins of life - with MKV
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Planet of Life ★ Emmy winning series on the origins of life - with MKV Versions! . _ .
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____________________________________________________________________________________ From The Paleontology Documentary Wiki: https://paleodocs.miraheze.org/wiki/Planet_of_Life
Planet of Life is a TV miniseries originally airing on NHK from 1994 to 1995. It details the history of life on earth and great events in evolution, using a combination of paleontologist interviews, fieldwork footage, puppets, and newfangled CGI recreations and other graphics. In Japan, it was a ten-episode series titled 生命40億年はるかな旅 (EN: Life: a Long Journey of 4 Billion Years), with the tenth episode acting as a compilation of the previous nine. It was originally hosted by astronaut Mamoru Mohri. In the US, a seven-episode edit aired as Planet of Life on Discovery Channel in 1995.
____________________________________________________________________________________ From Trakt TV: https://trakt.tv/shows/planet-of-life/seasons/all
Earthquakes, volcanoes, ice ages, landslides, floods, life evolution, plate motions—all of these phenomena have interacted over the vast expanses of deep time to sculpt the dynamic planet that we live on today. This Emmy award-winning Discovery Channel series traces the four-billion-year evolutionary history of the world covering the origin and evolution of life on Earth. Each episode covers a separate chapter in the biography of the world, the geological, physical and chemical conditions in which life might arise. Examine the birth, development, and destiny of earth. Series is narrated by Stacy Keach, and produced in conjunction with NHK network.
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Run Time 5:46:08 for 7 Episodes.
Episodes: 01 The Birth of Earth 02 Ancient Oceans 03 When Dinosaurs Ruled 04 Creatures of the Skies 05 The Insect World 06 Apes to Man 07 Evolution's Next Step
You may download the ★ entire series - as MP4 ★ all at once, HERE (3.0 GB): https://archive.org/compress/planet_of_life/formats=MPEG4&file=/planet_of_life.zip
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