would think. ANNOUNcER ON TV: I tell you, gentlemen, science has agreed that unless something is done, and done quickly, man as the dominant species of life on Earth will be extinct within a year. Sam Bowser likes to show doomsday science fiction films to the researchers. Many of them express grave doubts about our long-ranging presence on this planet. Nature, they predict, will regulate us. ANNOUNcER: Stay in your homes. I repeat, stay in your homes. Your personal safety, the safety of the entire city depends upon your full cooperation with the military authorities. Yes! cities, nations, even civilization itself threatened with annihilation. Because in one moment of history-making violence, nature, mad, rampant, wrought its most awesome creation. For born in that swirling inferno of radioactive dust were things so horrible, so terrifying, so hideous there is no word to describe them. We may be witnesses to a biblical prophecy come true. And there shall be destruction and darkness come upon creation, and the beasts shall reign over the Earth. ANNOUNcER: Yes, the Earth, infested by swarms... This is just the flower part. The body is somewhere in the dirt over there. All that the divers had brought back from the ocean floor were a few spoonfuls of sand containing the strange single-celled creatures the scientists are studying here. They are known as tree foraminifera, primordial single-celled organisms. They branch out in the shape of trees. The branches give off pseudopodia, microscopic false feet that gather and assemble grains