The Valentian Invasion tells the story of the famous 380-million-year-old tetrapod fossil trackways found on Valentia Island in south west Ireland.

These trackways represent some of the earliest known footprints made by early terrestrial vertebrates during their colonisation of the land.

The telling of this tale brought five geology students from NUIG on a 700km adventure that covered three counties over four days in 2019. This adventure saw the students hiking across bog-land, battling gale-force winds and hunting for the illusive trackways found at lesser known locations.

We hope that you enjoy watching this short documentary as much as we enjoyed making it!

Filmed on Location in Valentia Island, Co Kerry, Ireland by students of Earth & Ocean Science from NUI Galway.

Cast, Crew, Editors, Producers - and everything inbetween...
Weston Harding, Shane McQuillan, James Condon, Nicky Lawlor & Cian Corcoran.

Huge thanks to Dr. John Murray, our palaeontology lecturer, without whom this would not have happened!


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Music:

“Hey” - www.bensound.com

“Epic Inspiration” - Ashamaluev Music. [ Ссылка ]

“Epic Presentation” - Ashamaluev Music. [ Ссылка ]

Underwater Footage:
Ruaihri Strachan, with thanks.

Mountain Footage:
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Tetrapod Model Reconstruction:
Created by Dr Günter Bechly and used under a creative common’s attribution – share alike 3.0 unported licence and was not edited during this making of this documentary.
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Tetrapod Evolutionary Tree:
Credit to Mateus Zica & Nobu Tamara. This image was used under a creative common’s attribution – share alike 3.0 unported licence and was not edited during this making of this documentary.
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