Borneo Sacred Forest • 2021 • episode "S1E1" • Eden Untamed Planet

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What is it that makes things alive? What if we made robots that could sustain themselves? What if they could mine metals or recycle old robots, reprogram and remake themselves? There's nothing there we would traditional call alive, but they would have at least have the essence of this perpetual rube Goldberg machine.

This Place • 2014 • Nature

30:10

Silence may seem golden in the desert, but secret sounds connect curious meerkats - and tip off eavesdropping predators like cobras and eagles.

S1E7 • Earth Sounds • 2024 • Nature

7:29

The Miller-Urey experiment was the first attempt to scientifically explore ideas about the origin of life. Stanley Miller simulated conditions thought be common on the ancient Earth. The purpose was to test the idea that the complex molecules of life (in this case, amino acids) could have arisen on our young planet through simple, natural chemical reactions.

Stated Clearly • 2015 • Nature

36:05

Across Asia, elephants must use their intelligence and understanding of us to adapt to the human world.

S1E4 • Secrets of the Elephants • 2023 • Nature

10:03

After the Permian period, the epic saga of evolution and extinction on Earth produced the world's first dinosaurs, plesiosaurs and pterosaurs. They dominated land, sea and air until another period of extreme volcanism generated vast waves of lava and toxic gas and killed roughly 75% of all species.

S1E2 • Ancient Earth • 2017 • Nature

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Attenborough visits several museums of natural history. With the aid of dinosaur skeletons, he demonstrates how they existed in real life, and speculates about the reasons for their sudden demise.

S1E3 • Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives • 1989 • Nature