All language subtitles for Ocean Origin IMAX BluRay 2002 720p BluRay EN Sub_Subtitles01.ENG

Our universe was born some
15 billion years ago-

-in a great eruption
we call "The Big Bang".

Space dilated and billions
of galaxies formed in the cosmos.

Each galaxy contains
billions of stars.

Black holes too,
made their appearance.

In one of the vast
spirals of our own galaxy-

-the Milky Way -
the Sun and the Earth-

-five billion years ago,
first took the cosmic stage.

This film tells the story of life's
beginnings and its evolution.

We will see
as the tale unfolds.

Forms of life, much like
the earliest to exist on Earth.

Most of which
have been long extinct.

The Sun,
with its immense corona,-

-was the energy source
that fueled our corner of the universe-

-when the Earth
was but a gigantic furnace.

The first rocks
began to crystallize.

Slowly, the Earth cooled.

This Earth was a desert...

No animals, no plants, no life.

And no blue skies-

-for the atmosphere
contained no oxygen.

There was no water
on the Earth's surface.

Cast forth by volcanic eruptions,
it collected all of it in the skies above.

The first rain...

Boiling hot, it poured down
for millions of years.

Because of the Earth's mass
and its position relative to the Sun-

-its atmosphere did not drift of
into the cosmic void.

Water was helled
to the Earth's surface-

-as a liquid, as a solid,
and as a gas.

The oceans formed.

It was in water that life began-

-almost 4 billion years ago.

But how?

It could have been in the dark depths
were sulphureous springs bubbled up-

-heated by the Earth's magma.

Or it could have been in pools
of organic matter-

-where space dust
had come to rest.

Or it maybe that minerals
provided a scaffolding-

-around which living matter
organized itself.

What was this life?

At first just a group of molecules
enclosed in a membrane-

-drawing energy from beyond itself
and reproducing-

-whether by duplication or in forms
that alter and diversify.

All species
are thought to descend-

-from a common forerunner that
appeared almost 4 billion years ago.

We call it: "The Luca".
The last universal common ancestor.

The first living beings
were bacteria.

They drew their energy from a chemical
reaction called chemosynthesis.

Some unicellular creatures,
cyan bacteria,-

-used the Sun's luminous energy
to produce oxygen.

This was the first
photosynthesis.

A process later to be adopted
by chlorophylling plants.

Oxygen was still a rare gas
and a danger to living things.

Expelled into the air,-

-slowly it altered the atmospheres
character and its properties.

About one and a half
billion years ago-

-the cell developed a nucleus-

-enabling it to protect its genes
with a surrounding membrane.

Life will have remained
microscopic and unicellular-

-for almost three billion years.

Every drop of water
contained a world.

700 million years after
the nucleolus emerged-

-the first multi cellular
organisms began to appear.

In time, life's basic behavior patterns
began to assert themselves.

Movement...and feeling.

Now we had a food chain.

A balance evolved
between plant and animal life,-

-with the latter most often
consuming the former.

Cell division
took care of reproduction.

The simple principle
of one cell splitting to become two.

Asexual replication,
life on the assembly line.

Efficient, but rather
lacking in innovation.

Some unicellular creatures
began to join forces.

Enhancing the size and complexity
of living beings.

The sponge,
long thought to be a plant,-

-was one of the first animals
to live in a colony.

Life had been
exclusively unicellular-

-for almost
three billion years.

But then,
for 670 million years,-

-invertebrate multi-cellular marine
animals were to have their day.

Tiny animals
together with micro algae-

-formed enormous coral reefs.

The coral was constructed
for the most part by colonies of polyps.

Minute tubular creatures
topped with tentacles-

-that reeled in
microscopic plankton.

These tiny strangely-
shaped invertebrates-

-provided most of the
nourishment for the coral reef.

Eventually these
multi cellular animals-

-sprouted organs
with specific attributes.

The sea urchin's ambulacra
moved it along...

...while its spines protected it.

The sea urchin's mouth and teeth
were set on an axis.

This axial symmetry
showed up also in starfish,-

-brittie stars
and feather stars.

This spiral tube worm
deploys its branchiae.

Oxygen given of by algae monopolized
more and more of the atmosphere.

The sky took on
the hue we know today.

While there was
still no life on dry land,-

-it was burgeoning
beneath the sea.

A little over one billion
years ago-

-life on Earth
made an quantum leap.

Life forms began
to reproduce sexually.

Starfish undertook
countless fertilizations-

-without ever touching.

Sea urchins,
male and female,-

-released their seed into
the water at the same time.

Clouds of sperm intermingled
with clouds of ovules.

What seems
wasteful to us-

-helped compensate for the dangers
future larva would face.

A sperm cell could now merge
with an ovule-

-and produce a fertilized egg-

-who's genes came half from one parent
and half from the other.

Fertilization
brought with it diversity,-

-each organism unique.

And with new
genetic horizons opening up-

-evolution moved into high gear.

Dividing, the egg transformed
it self into a larvae.

These larvae,
mixed with the plankton,-

-disseminated the species.

The larvae of the sea urchin.

The larvae of the scallop.

The larvae of the starfish...

...all swept away by the prevailing
currents to mature and grow to adulthood-

-far from their origins.

To give fertilization
more of an edge-

-some species
began to meet in the flesh.

Sea slugs,
being both male and female,-

-formed a mating chain.

Sexual reproduction
was a resounding success.

It was 600 million years ago,-

-and life in its infinite variety
had come into its own.

Diversity had won the day.

One of the great success
stories of evolution-

-was the copepoda.

Which were more numerous then
any other animal group on the planet.

These tiny crustaceans
were an important link in the food chain.

Carried along
by the ocean currents-

-they were a major
constituent of plankton.

Many plankton were
translucent and gelatinous.

Like some of these creatures
the Venu's Girdle was quite large.

10.000 feet down,
in the vicinity of hot springs-

-and under extreme conditions
life continued to flourish.

Minerals in the water made possible
the development of shells and bony plates.

The shell of
the horseshoe crab-

-has warded of its enemies
for millions of centuries.

Mollusks,
such as the nautilus,-

-have survived virtually unchanged
for 500 million years.

Now came the eye, a huge leap
forward in evolutionary terms.

The first photosensitive cells
began to produce an actual image.

The eye of the cuttlefish
was already highly developed.

Capturing prey was no longer
a hit and miss affair.

The eye allowed
for a sure and steady aim.

The more efficient
the eye became,-

-the more invisible
you had to be.

The octopus learned to camouflage
it self by mimicking its surroundings.

This six-foot-long sea cucumber
assumed the color of the seabed.

While another species of sea cucumber
used gluey filaments to defend it self.

Weapons became
more sophisticated.

Stingers, darts and
venom-tipped tentacles,-

-like those of this
formidable sea anemone.

Evolution did not
always proceed smoothly.

There were several
massive extinctions-

-due most often
to climate change.

530 million years ago, 80% of
the existing species died off.

Much of this fauna, in fossil form,
has been found in Burgess, Canada.

Fortunately, pikaia, the forerunner
of all vertebrates,-

-is among the 20% that survived.

The lancelet,
which resembles the pikaia,-

-is thought to be the
evolutionary precursor of the fish.

Despite its plant-like appearance,
the ascidian was an animal,-

-a close relative
of the vertebrates.

Among the plankton
there were many animals,-

-such as the salpa
and the appendicularia,-

-both ancestors
of the vertebrates.

About 400 million years ago the first
shell-free animals began to appear.

They had solid flesh and
an internal skeleton.

First came the cartilaginous fish
like the ray and the shark.

Then...fish with bones.

All these extravagantly
formed animals-

-testify to the richness
of the evolutionary process.

The sea horse.

The crocodile fish.

The lung fish was one
of the first creatures-

-to emerge from the sea
and to breathe in the air,-

-now abundant in oxygen.

Enjoying the plants and the insects
that have proceeded it-

-and inaugurated
a whole new saga-

-as the vertebrates began their
conquest of the continents.

One chapter was over...

...another was ready to begin.

Life began in water
four billion years ago.

It has existed on dry land
for only 400 million years.