Pic Of The Day: Penguins
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| 15:44 PM, Monday, 31 March 2008
Above is a still from a very special BBC iPlayer promotion for a new BBC series Miracles of Evolution, in which film-maker and writer Terry Jones follows in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and his Voyage of the Beagle in 1831 - "a voyage which was ultimately to revolutionise the natural sciences with the publication of On The Origin Of The Species".
The first episode "presents spectacular footage, which has never been caught on camera before, of a unique colony of Adelie Penguins as they fly thousands of miles across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica to the Amazon Rainforest".
The full promo can be seen here on the BBC iPlayer and here on the BBC's YouTube Channel.
I've also embedded it from YouTube:
Update 10.57: There's also a Facebook group.
Update 15.48: Here's a video about how the promo was made.
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet Blog.
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Comments
Ahaha, brilliant. I take it this promo actually has run on TV?
very interesting for today but i look forward to Terry's series about future changes occurring from Darwin's theory of evolution
Question will these all take place at the beginning of the fouth month???
Superb, one of the best April Fools ever...convincing until the rainforest bit...LOL :-)
This is awesome - a true successor to the legendary spaghetti trees!
Looks good but is it going to be on BBC HD?! You had me for a split second!
It was rather depressing to actually find it believable at the start :)
Mind you it did seem odd that the penguins didn't mind Terry Jones wandering around them!
This is absolute genius. Well executed in every way. How long until we see the BBC ONE ident with the penguins flying in a circle? hehe. Well done to all involved.
WTF?????
I'm accessing the blog internationally and the video worked ealier.
(13.10) Now it doesn't!
(14.30) Now it does again.
Waiting to post again in 1 hour with the next update.
Very uncool.
BTW - it's not just that it wouldn't work but that it was telling me that the video was not available for the country I was in(stupid GeoIP rubbish)!
Then again - maybe it was some fleeting April 1st. thing :-)
More flying penguins please!
Well, I belived the whole thing from start to finish and was telling all I knew about this great new discovery. Best I've ever been April fooled:-)
It looks really real! I almost believed it.
If that is real, it would be a big big news... I should see it on news and TV internationally.... right ?
Amazing