The Origin of Titans/The Age of Superspecies

The first episode of the pseudo-documentary The Age of Superspecies focuses on how the Titans all started out, and the first Titan, Methuselah.

Time Period

 * 3.5 BYA - 570 MYA (Precambrian)

Present Superspecies

 * Titanus Methuselah

Synopsis of Episode
The episode begins in space, panning over a large crystalline asteroid racing through space, on a direct collision course towards Earth. Within the crystalline asteroid resides strands of primarily carbon and uranium-based DNA. As water-filled meteors bombard the Earth, the crystalline asteroid follows, triggering a massive explosion that releases the DNA into the primordial soup. As newly-formed single-cellular organisms consume this DNA, they grow to abnormal sizes and start to switch their food source from chemosynthesis to uranium deposits within the Earth's core. These nuclear-based cellular organisms mutate rapidly, forcing them to evolve quicker than the common single cellular organisms that would become normal life. Over time, these nuclear-based cells fuse together with the DNA of other animals, the true triggering point that would eventually lead to the rise of Titans. The episode cuts over billions of years later, to the end of the Precambrian, the camera viewing what appears to be a mountain range, until it begins to quake and break from the earth, revealing a large, horned quadrupedal beast: Methuselah, the very first titan.