The Dawn of Mammals • 2018 • episode "3/3" • Ancient Earth: Series 2

53:52

Takes us into the world of digestion and its amazingly complex environment.Our health, body shape, mood and even our evolution are determined by the unseen life forms that swarm throughout our bodies. There are worms in your bowels, bacteria in your mouth, fungi in your lungs and even viruses in your DNA.The combined genetic information of all these bugs is more than 150 times greater than our own genes. Their cells outnumber our own by 10 to 1. This collective menagerie is called the microbiome, and in a very real sense, it is the making of us all.

2/2 • Life on Us • 2014 • Nature

49:00

How many animals - including zebras, moose and stalk-eyes flies - assess their opponents' fighting prowess before making an attack that risks injury or death.

8/12 • Trials of Life • 1990 • Nature

49:09

Birds eat more than berries; this episode takes a look at birds that eat meat.

S1E4 • The Life of Birds • 1998 • Nature

93:24

Our world is the home of millions of plant as well as animal species and provides several territories, each with its own geological and climatic conditions: steep mountains, deep forests, wide oceans and arctic ice deserts. The inhabitants have adapted to its different conditions and are still developing new strategies to survive. “Wonderful World” not only takes a look at the interesting creatures of our planet, but also highlights cosmological circumstances, which made our world unique, diversified and above all so adorable.

2015 • Nature

21:34

Following 161 84 views About Export Add to From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the towering skyscrapers of today, humans have engineered massive constructions for at least 5,000 years. But why? How do biology and human emotions affect our desire to build gigantic structures?

05/17 • Big History • 2013 • Nature

4:45

Archimedes once said “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.”

TED-Ed • Nature