Miracle Planet is a six-part documentary series, co-produced by Japan's NHK and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), narrated by Christopher Plummer (Seiko Nakajo in the original Japanese), which tells the 4.6-billion-year-old story of how life has evolved from its humble beginnings to the diversity of living creatures today.
The five standard episodes depict the evolution of life on Earth in perspective with our place in the universe - from the simplest microbes to the complexity and diversity that is found on the planet today.
The entire 5-hour series Miracle Planet aired on Discovery Channel in Canada on April 22, 2005 as an Earth Day special.
Animals included: Eusthenopteron, Dunkleosteus (identified as a placoderm), Acanthostega, Hyneria, Pederpes, Dinocephalian, Gorgonops, Diictodon (fossil), and Cynodont.
Species included: Shoshonius, Catopithecus, Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, Homo ergaster, and Hypoxis.