Discovery Miracle Planet Disc 3: New Frontiers (2005)

Index
Peter's DVD rating: 4 stars
4:10 Placoderms had jaws and dominated our Osteichthyans ancestors (Devonian period 410 MYA, French National Museum of Natural History) 5:30 Lobe-finned fish sought alternatives on land 7:15 Caledonian Mountains formed from clash of Baltica and Laurentia continents along Iapetus Sea 430 MYA (Sognefjord, Norway to Monreith Bay, Scotland)
9:30 Southern tipf collision is in east U.S. 12:45 Plant fossils from first known forest 370 MYA (Red Hill, Pennsylvania, was foothills of ancient Caledonian Range) 13:30 Archaeopteris cast shade and shed needle-like leaves, providing food and shelter
19:00Armored Pleco 19:00Predatory Arowana 21:45 Lungfish can breath air (Amazon)
23:15 Fish lung developed from swelling of esophagus 24:25Modern fish lung developed into air bladder 24:30 Tetrapod fossil 360 MYA:
24:50Air-breathing Acanthostega had 8 fingers; its limbs cannot bend and bear weight, but can move through weedy shallow water (east Greenland) 30:00 Hyneria tooth : freshwater predator may have driven other Acanthodian fish to shallow water (Red Hill, Pennsylvania) 34:00 Spotted Handfish (Australia)
37:50 Pederpes was earliest known animal to walk on land 348 MYA (foot of Caledonia mountains, west coast of ireland) 41:00 Dinocephalian were mammal-like reptiles that dominated land 250 MYA, became extinct (Great Karoo, South Africa) 44:15 Therapsid
45:00 Cynodont was distant ancestor of mammals 45:30 "Last pool" : 95% of Permian species became extinct, perhaps due to global warming   
Placodermi.jpg
4:10 Placoderms
Eusthenopteron.jpg
5:30 Lobe-finned fish
Caledonian.JPG
7:15 Caledonian Mountains
Caledonian-US.JPG
9:30 Southern tipf collision is in east U.S.
Plant_fossils.JPG
12:45 Plant fossils
Archaeopteris.JPG
13:30 Archaeopteris
Hypostomus_plecostomus.jpg
19:00 Pleco
Osteoglossidae.jpg
19:00 Arowana
Dipnoi.jpg
21:45 Lungfish
Fish_lung.JPG
23:15 Fish lung
air_bladder.JPG
24:25 air bladder
Tetrapod_fossil.JPG
24:30 Tetrapod fossil
Acanthostega.JPG
24:50 Acanthostega
Hyneria.JPG
30:00 Hyneria tooth
Brachionichthys_hirsutus.jpg
34:00 Spotted Handfish
Pederpes.JPG
37:50 Pederpes
Dinocephalia.JPG
41:00 Dinocephalian
Therapsid.JPG
44:15 Therapsid
Cynodont.JPG
45:00 Cynodont
Permian_fossils.JPG
45:30 "Last pool"
 
Index Feb 21, 2010 copyleft Peter Chen