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- StarsDavid AttenboroughBackground to the origins of life on Earth and with the evidence of fossils, how some of today's living creatures can trace their ancestry back through the eons to those earliest of times.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe continuing story of the evolution of life on earth explores the earliest sea living invertebrates.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughExplores the first land living plants and insects, the problems they faced and how they overcame them.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughExamines the symbiosis between plants and insects together with how some insects have become super-organisms.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughTracing the evolution of fish leading to today's immense variety and ability to occupy remarkable environments.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe evolution of life continues with some fish moving on to the land and becoming amphibians.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe rise and evolution of reptiles including the history of dinosaurs.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe evolution of birds from their first reptilian ancestors to the immense variety of species we know today.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughTracing the early evolution of mammals that rose to prominence following the extinction of the dinosaurs and concentrating on today's egg laying mammals (monotremes) and marsupials.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe evolution of mammals continues with the focus on some placental species including emphasis on bats, whales and dolphins.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA study into those mammals that became herbivores and their colonisation over many parts of the world. Also examines their main predators and defense strategies.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughContinues the mammal theme, by focusing on primates. Beginning with the lemurs of Madagascar, then describing the differences between old world and new world monkeys and concluding with a study of gorillas and chimpanzees.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughTracing the evolution of the human species from African ape to the prodigious colonization of the entire earth and the impact upon the planet both now and in the future.
- DirectorRichard BrockStarsDavid AttenboroughExplores how the surface of the Earth continually moves and transforms due to volcanic activity both above and below sea level and how animals and plants have adapted to cope with the varied resulting environments.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow some creatures and plants manage to overcome the harsh environments found at high altitude together with those prevailing in the Arctic and Antarctic.
- DirectorIan CalvertStarsDavid AttenboroughAn exploration of the various global forests in the northern hemisphere and how animal and plant life, both permanent and migratory, have to cope with changing seasons and climates.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA study of tropical rain forests and how it's universal climate provides the habitats for the immense variety of flora and fauna that proliferate there.
- DirectorRichard MatthewsStarsDavid AttenboroughA study of the vast grasslands of the Earth and how they support a great variety of animal life from insects to large herbivores including their predators.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughRoasting temperatures during the day and equally cold temperatures at night, require both animals (incl. humans) and plants to adapt to extreme habitats including minimal availability of water.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDescribes the ability of birds, insects and bats to fly including migration often over great distances; and how plant seeds defy gravity in order to disperse over a wide area.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough reveals the extraordinary variety of animal life that live both in or close to or otherwise depend on freshwater focusing principally on the Amazon river and other global freshwater expanses.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFrom worms to crocodiles, all manner of creatures and plant life have to adapt to the unique habitat that exists where the land meets the sea and cope with the rise and fall of daily tides.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow isolation on islands and atolls has lead to unique diversity and specialization amongst animal and plant life together with the devastating results of human intervention.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFrom plankton to whales, there is as much amazing diversity of life and habitats in the world's oceans as there is on land. A marine lifestyle presents unique problems for its inhabitants.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughOver the last 10,000 years, modern man has utilized his superior intellect to colonize most of the Earth in order to further his species; sometimes to the detriment of other creatures and damaging natural habitats and environments.