EXCLUSIVE: PBS has gained exclusives entry to the work excavating a fossil of the oldest fashionable fowl, relationship again some 68 million years, and is forging a documentary.
Rise of Birds, Dinosaurs Among Us [working title] is being made for the U.S. community’s science strand by Rise and Fall of the Mayas producer Pernel Media and can observe the work of Daniel Field, a Cambridge palaeontologist. His discovery, uncovered three years in the past, opened a brand new window of alternative to inform the journey of how dinosaurs advanced into fashionable birds, survived the final mass extinction, and rose to be one of the crucial various courses of animals on the earth.
The collection, which counts France Télévisions, Ushuaïa TV, Radio Canada, NHK, and CCTV9 China (CMB) as companions, will examine the newest discoveries and ongoing analysis on the extraordinary options of birds, the position of their feathers, their singing skills, their wings, and the way they turned the undisputed masters of the sky.
Penned by Eric Pincas and Thomas Cirotteau, and directed by Thomas Cirotteau, the doc is presently in post-production and is because of be delivered within the first quarter of 2024.
“Who knew that pigeons and chickens descended from the same branch as the infamous T-Rex?,” stated Céline Payot Lehmann, an exec producer at Pernel. “Dinosaurs are not extinct, they are all around us. That’s how relevant and universal this story is.”
Deadline revealed late final yr that Pernel is making a collection about Genghis Khan.