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Life on Our Planet — Miniseries

Episodes

  • E01 Chapter 1: The Rules of Life

    ★ 8.0

    Oct 25, 2023 · 43m

    Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.

  • E02 Chapter 2: The First Frontier

    ★ 8.2

    Oct 25, 2023 · 54m

    For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — two mass extinctions.

  • E03 Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land

    ★ 8.4

    Oct 25, 2023 · 57m

    Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.

  • E04 Chapter 4: In Cold Blood

    ★ 8.0

    Oct 25, 2023 · 55m

    After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.

  • E05 Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants

    ★ 7.8

    Oct 25, 2023 · 51m

    The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.

  • E06 Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes

    ★ 8.2

    Oct 25, 2023 · 53m

    The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.

  • E07 Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth

    ★ 6.7

    Oct 25, 2023 · 52m

    Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.

  • E08 Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire

    ★ 7.0

    Oct 25, 2023 · 50m

    As the Ice Age thawed, humans rose above the rest. But the possibility of a sixth mass extinction now looms: Has our ingenuity caused our downfall?