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documentary written and presented by
David Attenborough. It's the 12th episode of the 22nd series of the British wildlife documentary television series ''
Natural World
''Natural World'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It is the longest-running documentary in its genre on British televis ...
''. It was first transmitted in 2004 and later became part of the ''
Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages'' collection of seven documentaries.
The documentary shows Attenborough searching for the identities of preserved creatures inside a piece of
Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than ...
that was given to him by his adoptive sister when he was twelve years old.
It then shows how a group of scientists can reconstruct an entire twenty million-year-old ecosystem through pieces of
Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree '' Hymenaea protera''.
Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil inc ...
. Examples include a tadpole preserved in amber after falling from a
bromeliad.
Attenborough then discusses the scientific feasibility of
DNA being preserved in amber, and the science behind the 1993 hit techno-thriller ''
Jurassic Park'', in which his elder brother
Richard Attenborough starred as
John Hammond. Several attempts were tried, with DNA eventually being recovered from a
weevil
Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small, less than in length, and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several families, ...
that was several million years older than ''
Tyrannosaurus rex
''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosaurus'' live ...
''. Attenborough reasons that a few old, rare pieces of amber may contain DNA.
See also
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List of ''Natural World'' episodes
References
External links
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2004 British television episodes
Amber
BBC television documentaries
Documentary films about nature
Documentary films about prehistoric life
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