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How to Grow a Planet

The Power of Flowers (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 61 min | Documentary
In the Dino age, the earth was covered with pre-flowering plants, notably ferns and conifers. Their primitive methods of pollination were outclassed by a novelty, flowers, designed to attract animals, mainly insects, who soon started ...See moreIn the Dino age, the earth was covered with pre-flowering plants, notably ferns and conifers. Their primitive methods of pollination were outclassed by a novelty, flowers, designed to attract animals, mainly insects, who soon started specializing in collecting pollen and/or nectar. Together they cerated giant tropical forests on over half of the land. Most species were extinguished by the mega-asteroid which wiped out the Dinos, but enough survived as seeds. Mammals and birds became major seed eaters and propagators. The interaction between flowering plants and animals, specific to all kinds of environments, became the main motor of unprecedented fast evolution and changed most of earth's surface spectacularly. Written by KGF Vissers See less
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Director
Nigel Walk
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Nigel Walk
Editors
Lee Sutton | Lauri White
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Updated Feb 14, 2012
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Feb 14, 2012 (United Kingdom)

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