"FIVE TIMES DURING COMPLEX LIFE'S HALF A BILLION YEAR REIGN, THE FORCES OF NATURE HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST IT"
Life is a fragile thing. It changes and adapts so specifically to survive in the environment it's placed in. This ability to adapt is called evolution, and it's the reason that life has endured for the past few billion years. But evolution takes a long time, so when environments change too quickly for the inhabitants to keep up, the result is a drop in population or at the worst… extinction. And sometimes these changes can be so big that they affect the entire globe. Leading to some of the most catastrophic events in our planet’s history… mass extinctions. Content creator Angel of Death explores the five mass extinctions and the effects they had on life on earth in this five part miniseries.
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Bill meets wildlife in Borneo and Indonesia to tell the story of Darwin's rival Wallace.
All the incredible diversity of animal life sprang from a single organism. Every animal, no matter how weird, is related to every other. And behind each species is an incredible story of the millions of generations that gave rise to it - every animal we know and love today sprang from creatures that looked nothing like it.
Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
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Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science.
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Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.
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Imagines prehistoric life in this entertainment series about dinosaur battles. Computer-generated dinosaurs engage in conflicts choreographed using paleontological evidence from 70-million-year-old crime scenes. Jurassic Fight Club was hosted by George Blasing, a self-taught paleontologist.
Three part series detailing the dangerous prehistoric creatures humans met as they explored the world for the first time.
Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.
The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.
David Attenborough presents a series on fossils and palaeontology.
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Hosted by Jason Silva, Origins: The Journey of Humankind rewinds all the way back to the beginning and traces the innovations that made us modern.
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5 episodes • 2023Avg: 10.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Chilling Tale of the Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction | Nov 4, 2023 | 10.0 |
| 2 | The Strange Story of the Late Devonian Mass Extinction | Nov 17, 2023 | 10.0 |
| 3 | How the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Almost Killed Life on Earth | Nov 21, 2023 | 10.0 |
| 4 | How the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Gave Rise to the Dinosaurs | Dec 28, 2023 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The K-Pg Mass Extinction: The Day the Dinosaurs Died | Feb 10, 2024 | 0.0 |