David Attenborough series on the natural history of the polar regions; Attenborough appeared on screen and authored the final episode, in addition to performing voiceover duties. Attenborough introduced and narrated the Unit's first 4K production "Life Story." For "Planet Earth II" (2016), Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter, with the main theme music composed by Hans Zimmer. In October 2014, the corporation announced a trio of new one-off Attenborough documentaries as part of a raft of new natural history programmes. "Attenborough's Paradise Birds" and "Attenborough's Big Birds" was shown on BBC Two and "Waking Giants", which follows the discovery of giant dinosaur
David Attenborough of Ecuadorian flowering tree ("Blakea attenboroughi"), one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants ("Nepenthes attenboroughii"), along with a genus of flowering plants ("Sirdavidia"). Arthropods named after Attenborough include a butterfly, Attenborough's black-eyed satyr ("Euptychia attenboroughi"), a dragonfly, Attenborough's pintail ("Acisoma attenboroughi"), a millimetre-long goblin spider ("Prethopalpus attenboroughi"), an Indonesian flightless weevil ("Trigonopterus attenboroughi"), a Madagascan ghost shrimp ("Ctenocheloides attenboroughi"), and a soil snail ("Palaina attenboroughi"). The Monogenean "Cichlidogyrus attenboroughi", a parasite from a deep-sea fish in the Lake Tanganyika, is probably the only parasite species named after him. Vertebrates have also been named after Attenborough, including a Namibian lizard ("Platysaurus