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Madrugada
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Since: Jan, 2001
2011-03-15 21:49:11
It's likely that it was Origins: Battle For the Planet
, on Discovery. If that isn't it, it may be this
, on Discovery's sister station, the Science Channel.
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Since: Dec, 1969
Madrugada
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Since: Jan, 2001

I'm looking for the name of a Discovery Channel special that aired sometime around 1996 or 1996. It was about Cambrian life, particularly those found in the Burgess Shale. They talked about opabinia a lot in particular, as well as anomalocaris, and some of the scientists in the program made a model anomalocaris with a working mouth that they used to test whether the animal could have made the W-shaped bite marks in some fossil trilobites. I also remember there was a part with an animation of the evolution of pikaia's notochord into a human vertebra. This special may or may not have had other parts that were about extinct mammals (either additional episodes or just later sections of the program), but I might be combining it with other programs I watched around that time, which is entirely possible—I was 7 or 8 and these kinds of shows were the only things I watched. It wasn't part of the Walking With Dinosaurs series, I know that. It came before WWD. This is driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of this thing, since I made my parents tape it and then I watched it at least once a week.