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How do you set about designing an aiien?As part of A Weekend on Mars, the BBC’s Natural History Unit challenges a team of top scientists to conceive and design a!ien life forms of the kind that might plausibly populate worlds beyond our own. The results. which include flocks ofhugeftying predators and giant baiioon plants, are broughtto life using 3-D computer animation.
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d76d95a244444d4ca5b71885562a57b0
From Wikipedia:
Natural History of an Alien also known as Anatomy of an Alien in the US was an early Discovery Channel mockumentary similar to Alien Planet, aired in 1998. This mockumentary featured various alien ecosystem projects from the Epona Project to Ringworld. It also featured many notable scientists and science fiction authors such as Dr. Jack Cohen, Derek Briggs, Christopher McKay, David Wynn-Williams, Emily Holton, Peter Cattermole, Brian Aldiss, Sil Read, Wolf Read, Edward Smallwood, Adega Zuidema, Steve Hanly, Kevin Warwick and Dougal Dixon.
A good summary with explanations can be found here:
http://speculativeevolution.wikia.com/wiki/Natural_History_of_an_Alien
A version without Norwegian subtitles can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrLmHv4Fv4M
Originally aired: Sunday 6th July 1997 On BBC2.
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