David Attenborough: First Life and Rise of Animals - The Origin of the Species - 3 DVDset

Take an eye-opening journey that combines captivating CGI graphics with ground breaking natural history footage.

Sir David Attenborough has travelled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, in the landmark series First Life, he completes his journey by going back in time to the very roots of the tree of life, in search of the first animals. From the fog bound coastline of Newfoundland to the deserts of North Africa and the rainforests of Queensland, Attenborough finds evidence in fossils and living animals of an extraordinary period in Earth's history, half a billion years ago, when animals first appeared in the oceans. First Life is told with stunning photography, cutting-edge visual effects and the captivating charm of the world's favourite naturalist.

The sensational follow up David Attenborough's Rise of Animals charts the complex and fascinating evolutionary path that connects us, and all other vertebrates living on Earth today, to the very first life forms with a backbone. David Attenborough embarks on an incredible 500 million-year journey revealing how the rise of the vertebrates defines our human bodies. It is a remarkable journey that spans the ages, and reaches to the far corners of the modern world, including astonishing encounters with magnificent wildlife and privileged access to previously unseen fossils and excavations in China.