The Great Melt • episode "1/6" • Nature's Great Events

Category: Nature
Download:

The summer melt of Arctic ice provides opportunities for millions of animals.

Nature's Great Events • 6 episodes •

The Great Melt
59:22
The Great Melt

The summer melt of Arctic ice provides opportunities for millions of animals.

Nature

The Great Salmon Run
59:18
The Great Salmon Run

A look at the annual return of millions of salmon to the streams where they were born.

Nature

The Great Migration
59:03
The Great Migration

The story of a lion family's struggle to survive until the return of the great migration.

Nature

The Great Tide
59:04
The Great Tide

A look at the sardine run, which happens each winter along the South African coast.

Nature

The Great Flood
59:22
The Great Flood

The great flood in the Okavango turns 4,000 square miles of arid plains into a wetland.

Nature

The Great Feast
59:06
The Great Feast

Whales and sea lions alike journey to the seas off Alaska to feed on the plankton bloom.

Nature

You might also like

The Triassic
10:03
The Triassic

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.

2/3 • Ancient Earth • 2017 • Nature

The High Seas
48:53
The High Seas

Venture into the deep, dark and desolate oceans that are home to an abundance of beautiful -- and downright strange -- creatures.

6/8 • Our Planet • 2019 • Nature

Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
58:30
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

David Attenborough attempts to animate the life of the ichthyosaur whose 200-million-year-old fossil remains were found on Britain's Jurassic coast. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology and CGI, the team reconstruct the skeleton and create the most detailed animation of an ichthyosaur ever made. Along the way, they stumble into a 200-million-year-old murder mystery - and only painstaking forensic investigation can unravel the story of this extraordinary creature's fate.

2018 • Nature

Mountains
49:05
Mountains

This episode looks at Africa's mountain ranges. From the giant mole rats of the Ethiopian Highlands to the Barbary Macaque monkeys of the Atlas Mountains, this episode gives a fascinating look at the mountains of Africa and the animals that inhabit them.

1/6 • Wild Africa • 2001 • Nature

Extreme Animals
44:58
Extreme Animals

A look at wildlife in hostile environments, including glow-worms, condors, thorny devils, emperor penguins and polar bears. High in the mountains, deep underground, out in the deserts and at each of our vast frozen poles, animals have had to develop extraordinary resilience to survive. There are many challenges faced by animals living in extreme environments. Superbly adapted to these inhospitable habitats, their fortitude and resilience.

6/6 • World's Greatest Animal Encounters • 2020 • Nature

The Eighth Continent: Zealandia
8:18
The Eighth Continent: Zealandia

In this Short Documentary, Geologists in New Zealand created a stir earlier this year when they declared their discovery of the eighth continent of the world. Learn how was it formed and how something so massive could remain undetected until now.

3 • Science Breakthroughs • 2017 • Nature