Smithsonian Channel will premiere the two-part series DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’S RISE OF ANIMALS – TRIUMPH OF THE VERTEBRATES on Wednesday, May 13 at 8 and 9 p.m. ET/PT. From Atlantic Productions, the team that produced Sir David Attenborough’s Emmy® Award-winning series First Life, comes a new landmark series about the astonishing evolutionary advances that created the dazzling diversity of vertebrates which now dominate our planet, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and ultimately, mammals like us. Vertebrates have produced the largest, fastest, most intelligent creatures the world has ever seen.