First Animals

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.

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This is a 3D animation video of the Opabinia organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields
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This is a 3D animation video of the Olenoides organism. Copyright ROM Red Trillium Films Inc. Lars Fields©Lars Fields
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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 https://t.co/F0ngjXkzDy

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@DanJohnsonAB Thank you for sharing! Well we wish you all the best on your trip next year with your class. Who knows what new species are preserved under the rock surface... #fossils

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Thank you SO much @DanJohnsonAB for sharing the film with your Biogeography class! That is fantastic! Amazing, all the best on the trip. What were your top three moments/memories from your trip to the #BurgessShale ?

[Dan Johnson @DanJohnsonAB]

@UtscBiology @FirstAnimalsDoc @ROMtoronto @ParksCanada @UTSC @UTSCresearch @eebtoronto Brilliant documentary! My Biogeography 2090 class at the U of Lethbridge watched it all today. I’ve been to the Burgess Shale several times, and we are planning the next trip.

[Dan Johnson @DanJohnsonAB]

@FirstAnimalsDoc “What were your top three moments...”
One was the field trip I organized for the World Orthopterists’ Conference, in Canmore. People from a dozen nations were in awe of the site and the paleoecology. On another trip my daughters found new trilobites. Thank you to the Foundation.

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@FirstAnimalsDoc @cbcdocs “Why do we have the animals as we know them today?” asks Jean-Bernard Caron. “And that relates to an even deeper question, which is, where do we come from?”

Explore these questions with
@FirstAnimalsDoc, now available for streaming on CBC Gem! https://t.co/xrZgdS3jbS

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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 https://t.co/F0ngjXkzDy

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Earth’s very first animals were strange, alien-like creatures that eventually evolved into all animals, including us. Now streaming: https://t.co/OTboEJqpUw @FirstAnimalsDoc @ParksCanada @ROMToronto

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We were honoured to host the premiere screening of @FirstAnimalsDoc by @CBCdocs, followed by a panel discussion featuring ROM palaeontologist Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, host Maydianne Andrade, and director/producer Andrew Gregg.

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@FirstAnimalsDoc @cbcdocs They discussed the challenges of shooting in the Rockies. In addition to transporting equipment, water is ltd- they used tarps to collect it for things like dish-washing.

Forest fires also affected visibility: "It was so smoky, we were saying it was like flying into Mordor."

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@ROMtoronto @cbcdocs It’s so true! Excellent GIF!

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"The very first eyes, the first mouths, the first claws and teeth." Uncovering Mother Nature’s crazy experimental phase over half a billion years ago: https://t.co/wvAmGGuCLn @firstanimalsdoc @ROMToronto

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Tomorrow at 3:00 pm, join us a screening of
@FirstAnimalsDoc and hear from Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron from the ROM about the making of this documentary and from Dr. Duncan McIlroy of MUN to learn about our part in these new discoveries.

https://t.co/h5W9qtLXTN