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unusual facts about Life on Earth



Jim Frazier

David Attenborough asked the pair to work on his series Life on Earth and The Living Planet.

Materpiscis

The species was named Materpiscis attenboroughi in honour of David Attenborough who first drew attention to the significance of the Gogo fish sites in his 1979 series Life on Earth.

Richard Brock

He was a member of the production team on the highly successful Life on Earth, and served as executive producer on The Living Planet, collaborating with David Attenborough.


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Abderrahmane Sissako

1998 : La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) (35mm, 67 minutes), set on the last day of the millennium (commissioned for the 2000 Seen By... series featuring other directors such as Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet) and filmed in Sokolo, Mali, Sissako's father's village.

Desmond Miles

The last segment of Ezio's memories brings an astonished Ezio (and Desmond) to a futuristic chamber underneath the Sistine Chapel, where the hologram of the goddess Minerva, addresses Desmond by name, and through Ezio, warns him of an impending cataclysm that has the potential to destroy all life on Earth.

Directed panspermia

In 1966 Shklovskii and Sagan proposed that life on Earth may have been seeded through directed panspermia by other civilisations.

Frontiers of Astrobiology

Frontiers of Astrobiology is a non-fiction book edited by astronomers Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunine, and José Funes that summarizes the state of our understanding of life on Earth, the search for exoplanets, and the prospects for life elsewhere.

Gaorangers

He wants to protect all life on earth and he loves animals, especially his Golden Retriever "Choco".

Goldilocks planet

Very low estimates would contribute to the Rare Earth hypothesis, which posits that a series of extremely unlikely events and conditions led to the rise of life on Earth.

Jahidi White

In 2007, White appeared in the Sci Fi Channel original movie Alien vs. Alien, aka Showdown at Area 51, playing a hulking alien warrior intent on destroying all life on Earth.

Leo J. Enright

In 2008 he shared in a Thea Award for his work as science advisor on "Cosmos at the Castle", an interactive exhibition at Blackrock Castle Observatory exploring extreme life on earth and in space.

Life on Titan

Because of the extreme cold and also because of lack of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, scientists such as Jonathan Lunine have viewed Titan less as a likely habitat for extraterrestrial life, than as an experiment for examining theories on the conditions that prevailed prior to the appearance of life on Earth.

Stanley Awramik

In 1983, he discovered what was then considered to be the oldest evidence of life on earth, located in Western Australia.

Supernovae in fiction

The 2009 direct-to-video film 2012: Supernova is about life on Earth potentially being destroyed by a nearby supernova.

Ukiah Oregon

It is revealed that several centuries ago the invasion force of a hive mind species called the Ontongard arrived in the Solar System with the intention of converting all life on Earth into a copy of itself, via a form of viral infection.

Warbler

Life on Earth, Edward O. Wilson, Thomas Eisner, Winslow R. Briggs, Richard E. Dickerson, Robert L. Metzenberg, Richard D. O'Brien, Millard Susman, William E. Boggs, c 1973, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publisher, Stamford, Connecticut.