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Building Bodies

• 1981 ----- color ----- 20 min ----- 16mm
• (Life on Earth series, Part 3) Attenborough views a wide variety of invertebrates at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. There is a broad range examined from the simplest polyp to the mass colonies of polyps--each with its own specialized function. Coral skeletons of limestone are inspected and three main groups of ancient sea life are recognized: shells, flower-like creatures and shrimp-like creatures. Soft animal tissue does not fossilize as easily as a shell but we can speculate what the ancient creatures would have been like by examining larvae, flatworms and vacupods leading up to the more complex mollusk.
• Topics: (Archaeology, Genetics, Zoology)

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