Age of Mammals Overture

This motion graphics piece depicts—in three minutes—the global events that have shaped our planet’s trajectory over the past 65 million years. Projected on a large central glass screen, the looped media program is a cinematic overture for the entire exhibition. Headlines punctuate the action as major global events, such as a giant meteor strike, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates play out on the beautiful blue-green canvas of our planet. Visitors witness how continental movement affects the planet’s climate, and how we mammals have responded, migrated, adapted, and flourished throughout the Cenozoic Era.