Life on Our Planet

Miniseries

2023 · 8 episodes · 6h 55m in all · 7.8/10

Episodes

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   1. Chapter 1: The Rules of Life

   25 Oct 2023 · 43 min · 8.0/10

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

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   2. Chapter 2: The First Frontier

   25 Oct 2023 · 54 min · 8.2/10

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

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   3. Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land

   25 Oct 2023 · 57 min · 8.4/10

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

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   4. Chapter 4: In Cold Blood

   25 Oct 2023 · 55 min · 8.0/10

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

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   5. Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants

   25 Oct 2023 · 51 min · 7.8/10

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

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   6. Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes

   25 Oct 2023 · 53 min · 8.2/10

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

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   7. Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth

   25 Oct 2023 · 52 min · 6.7/10

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

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   8. Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire

   25 Oct 2023 · 50 min · 7.0/10

   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?