For those who have Netflix (we don't), Life on our Planet sounds terrific
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This drive to verify is essential, because “Life on Our Planet” spans four billion years and includes sixty-five extinct creatures. It is perhaps the most ambitious nature documentary ever made. Extraordinary footage of animals living today reveals, through persistent traits, the way the past is still present; long-lost creatures are rendered with such accuracy and vividness that they have never seemed more alive. The extinct creatures, made using C.G.I., are placed in footage of contemporary landscapes. “Paleobotanically, it’s pretty accurate,” Tom Fletcher, a paleontologist from Bristol, England, and the senior scientific researcher for the show, told me. In choosing sites to film, “our biggest problem was grass,” Fletcher said. Though grass has been around since the late Cretaceous period, it’s only been widespread for about twenty-five million years. Ferns, conifers—those were sufficiently ancient.
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