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1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 min. 11 sec.) ; 342986260 bytes |
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Of all continents on Earth, none preserve the story of the formation of our planet and the evolution of life quite like Australia. Nowhere else can you simply jump in a car and travel back through the entire history of the world. 'Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide' takes you on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. Buckle up for a rocky ride down the Road of Time with series host Dr Richard Smith. Great waves of biological invasion sweep us into episode two of Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide. The oceans, replete from the explosion of life that began in the Cambrian, are now spilling their cargoes onto the land. Australia, now part of the super-continent Gondwana is truly a wide, brown land and has had no blush of life on land to blemish its barren surface. As Richard Smith discovers, that all changed in the Silurian. Prepare to meet Planet Earth's forgotten pioneers: the Arthropod armies that invaded the shores. We follow the rise and rise of fish and the emergence of four-legged animals onto the land. We know that land as the supercontinent Gondwana, and it was during the greening of Gondwana that the eastern third of the continent was put in place, complete with Australia's vast coal reserves. Once again, prehistoric life was busy bankrolling our modern economy and building the basic elements that we know and love as the Australia of today.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Written, directed and produced by: Richard Smith; Commissioning editor for ABC Karina Holden, Executive producer Chris Hilton |
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Broadcast 2012-04-01 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Fishes, Fossil.
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Landscape assessment.
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Marine biological invasions.
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Marine biodiversity.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Smith, Richard, host
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Paxman, Michael, contributor
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Trinajstic, Kate, contributor
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Worrall, Lisa, contributor
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