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Life on Our Planet Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
The Rules of Life
Wed, Oct 25, 202341 mins
Evolution, competition, mass extinction: 4 billion years of life's rules.
Episode 2
The First Frontier
Wed, Oct 25, 202353 mins
Uninhabitable land for eons, but predation in the seas led to thriving species before and after two mass extinctions.
Episode 3
Invaders of the Land
Wed, Oct 25, 202355 mins
Hostile land to hospitable habitat: Early species, including moss, trees, insects, and amphibians, vied for domination.
Episode 4
In Cold Blood
Wed, Oct 25, 202355 mins
After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the super continent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
Episode 5
In the Shadow of Giants
Wed, Oct 25, 202349 mins
Varied continents fueled biodiversity and supercharged dinosaur evolution.
Episode 6
Out of the Ashes
Wed, Oct 25, 202352 mins
The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.
Episode 7
Inheriting the Earth
Wed, Oct 25, 202351 mins
Mammals rose from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations conquering land, air, and sea after the dinosaur era.
Episode 8
Age of Ice and Fire
Wed, Oct 25, 202350 mins
For the last 2.5 million years, our planet has been in the grip of an Ice Age. As ice advanced across the Northern Hemisphere, life was forced out. Mammals, who were able to adapt well to the cold, dominated the northern latitudes where they could. While ice didn't expand to cover the entire planet, its impact was still global. With much of the planet's freshwater locked up as ice, the Earth dried up. Rainforests shrunk and our closest ancestors, the primates, were forced out into the open. But as much as the advance of ice is part of the ice age story, so too is its retreat. Periods of glaciation were followed by periods of great melt, causing up-heaval for life across the planet. Mega flooding events proved catastrophic for life in their path - the scars of which can still be seen across the North American continent today. For the last 11,700 years the ice has been in retreat, and our climate has been remarkably stable. Humans rose to dominance, taking advantage of these stable conditions to grow plants for harvest and domesticate animals. Our population grew on a truly glob- al scale and the consequence is grave: we are causing the next mass extinction. What happens next is in our hands, but whatever future awaits, there's one thing the past has taught us - life always finds a way.
