French factual producer Pernel Media has secured exclusive access to a Cambridge University archaeological team for new documentary Rise Of The Birds.

The two-hour film will meet Professor Daniel Fields and his team, whose 2020 discovery, of the oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, shook up the world of palaeontology.

Rise Of The Birds will be shot in various locations around the world including the Hell Creek Formation in the USA, where an enormous amount of fossils have been found including primitive birds from before the asteroid strike, and Denmark, where giant birds were neighbours of our Homo Erectus ancestors.

The film will reveal some of the great mysteries of birds, such as how were they the only dinosaurs to survive the Cretaceous extinction and how did the ancestors of birds develop such spectacular skills like flying.

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