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A new doc from Toronto’s Red Trillium Films, takes us back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us about our origins.

 Toronto, Canada
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This is a 3D animation video of the Opabinia organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields #fossilfridays #TheRoyalOntarioMuseum #TheROMToronto #UofT #MemorialUniversity #RedTrilliumFilms #FirstAnimalsDoc #TheNatureOfThings #CBCTNoT #documentary
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This is a 3D animation video of the Olenoides organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields #fossilfridays #TheRoyalOntarioMuseum #TheROMToronto #UofT #MemorialUniversity #RedTrilliumFilms #FirstAnimalsDoc #TheNatureOfThings #CBCTNoT #documentary
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This is a 3D animation video of the Marella organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields #fossilfridays #TheRoyalOntarioMuseum #TheROMToronto #UofT #MemorialUniversity #RedTrilliumFilms #FirstAnimalsDoc #TheNatureOfThings #CBCTNoT #documentary
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This is a 3D animation video of the Hurdia organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields
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This is a 3D animation video of the Hallucigenia organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields
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The discovery of what Jean-Bernard Caron coined "The Spaceship" revealed that to date, it is the largest predator scoring the sea floor in the Cambrian Period buff.ly/2prAVEA
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This is a 3D animation video of the Antomalocaris organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields
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The fossils of the Burgess Shale are so amazing because they preserve soft tissues from animals that lived over 500 million years ago. The First Animals were all invertebrates except for a tiny creature called Metaspriggina buff.ly/2prAVEA
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Replying to @ROMtoronto @cbcdocs
It’s so true! Excellent GIF!
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"Their fate is a sliver of the story being revealed to us half a billion years later" - @WidowWeb. FIRST ANIMALS broadcasts tonight at 9pm on CBC's The Nature of Things #CBCTNoT buff.ly/2MGTrAL
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It's been a week since our exciting premiere at @ROMtoronto, and now we are broadcasting tonight on CBC's The Nature of Things at 9PM. #fossilfridays #firstanimalsdocumentary
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Jean-Bernard Caron calls the Burgess Shale fossils in these quarries "ecological snapshots." Set a reminder on your mobile for 9pm tomorrow night as we discover what the FIRST ANINAMLS were like in the Cambrian period.
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Artist Marianne Collins brings the fossil creatures and sketches to life in 3D portrait photo models. Marianne would then send these rendred drawings to THE paleo animator, Lars Fields, who brings the creatures to life.
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Back in Toronto, Maydianne visits the lab in @ROMtoronto as the team unpacks the 6-tonnes of shale collected from the summer dig! Each piece is catalogued, washed, and treated.
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