Pick of the day: David Attenborough’s Rise Of Animals: Triumph Of The Vertebrates
9pm, BBC2
David Attenborough tracks a 500 million-year journey to reveal the rise of the vertebrates.
He presents new fossil evidence from the frontier of modern paleontological research, China.
New fossil finds combined with CGI technology allow Sir David to tell this story of how humans became the heirs to an evolutionary heritage.
In the first episode he uses new fossil evidence to unlock nature’s most extraordinary story, the ascent of the group that dominates our planet.