DVD PBS The Shape of Life Disc 2: Explosion of Life (2002)

Peter's DVD rating:
This episode is a little short on the Cambrian Explosion, despite the title. Nothing is said about why the Burgess Shale fossils are special; and no mention of critters like Hallucigenia or Marella.

2:30	Desmond Collins: Toronto Royal Ontario Museum	4:20	Burgess Shale fossils; Canadian Rockies	5:30	Cambrian Explosion
6:40	Anomalocaris , Opabinia , Canadia	11:30	Wiwaxia	12:30	Rudy Raff, Terry Chase
14:50	Sponges are multicellular	15:30	Cnidarians	16:00	Flatworm has head
17:30	Aysheaia resembles modern Velvet Worm (Austrealia)	18:30	Ctenorhabdotus fossil resembles comb jellies, can move by living paddles	20:00	Pikaia
21:00	35 body plans for all animals	22:50	Damhnait McHugh (Colgate University) studies Annelids (15,000 species)	27:30	Scale Worm hitches ride under sea star
28:40	Giant Tube Worms	30:40	Feather Duster Worm	31:00	Terebellid worm extends spaghetti tentacles
32:20	Leech carries offspring in underside patch	36:00	Tube-dwelling worm Diopatra (Coos Bay, Oregon)	39:30	Lugworm tunnels into marine mud; has gills for breathing
43:50	Snowball earth before Cambrian: burrowing annelids recycle buried carbon, leading to global warming	46:30	Earth Worm cycles leaf litter

6:40 Anomalocaris	6:40 Opabinia	6:40 Canadia
11:30 Wiwaxia	14:50 Sponges are multicellular	15:30 Cnidarians
16:00 Flatworm has head	17:30 Aysheaia	17:30 Velvet Worm
18:30 Ctenorhabdotus	20:00 Pikaia	22:50 Annelids
27:30 Scale Worm hitches ride under sea star	28:40 Giant Tube Worms	30:40 Feather Duster Worm
31:00 Terebellid worm extends spaghetti tentacles	32:20 Leech carries offspring in underside patch	36:00 Diopatra
39:30 Lugworm tunnels into marine mud; has gills for breathing	43:50 global warming	46:30 Earth Worm cycles leaf litter


Index	Jan 07, 2010	Peter Chen 2.0