How life came to land - Tierney Thys
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Spiders and crustaceans, also known as arthropods, led the charge from water to land--now outnumbering all terrestrial animals. But what about arthropods makes them so adaptable to life on land? Marine biologist Tierney Thys, and Noé Sardet and Sharif Mirshak of the Plankton Chronicles Project, shows us a world of fascinating animals and their habitats.
If we were to run the evolutionary clock backwards to the dawn of animal life, would the same animal phyla emerge? Would Homo sapiens evolve? What elements of animal evolution are, or are not, inevitable? Are land colonization and sentience inevitable?
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Meet The Creators
- Sound Designer Julien Junet
- Director Noé Sardet, Sharif Mirshak
- Educator Tierney Thys
- Narrator Tierney Thys
