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- A look at the world's harshest landscapes and the animals that have adapted to live there.
- Coming-of-age story of a young kangaroo joey called Mala, learning what it takes to survive her incredible first year. Only one in five joeys make it to their first birthday. Mala's greatest enemy is the dingo pack that stalks her family.
- "The Lost Tombs," which will stream on Discovery+ in addition to airing on the Discovery Channel, chronicles the largest excavation in Egypt in 100 years. Dr. Zahi Hawass explores the infamous Valley of the Kings looking for Queen Nefertiti's treasure, among other priceless artifacts from the New Kingdom.
- This look behind the scenes shows how worldwide camera crews climbed, dived and froze to capture the documentary's groundbreaking night footage."
- Mischievous monkeys. Intelligent apes. And a cast of charismatic and eccentric cousins and distant relatives. Over the course of 55 million years, primates have evolved and branched off to conquer the world. But how did they rise to power? Join host and biologist Patrick Aryee on a journey through time, and across the globe, to come face-to-face with some of the 400+ species of primates thriving in our jungles, deserts, grasslands and mountains. It's a story of epic migrations, lost lands, mass extinctions, and one remarkable family tree.
- How did the world we call home come to be? Combining the latest scientific discoveries and theories with CGI, we journey through eons of fire and ice to detail how Earth evolved into a habitable planet and how humanity's success is putting us and our environment in peril.
- Dive beneath the surface of the Earth's vast oceans to uncover a world of extremes, from crushing depths to stormy coasts to crowded reefs. Oceans are dynamic environments where animals must adapt to life of constant change. Discover how seals fend off sharks, how turtles risk their lives to create their next generation and how ingenious orca fight to survive in the face of competition.
- Cameras in space reveal remarkable stories behind Earth's most intriguing colours.
- Grasslands are home to the biggest stars of the animal kingdom, but top billing doesn't make life here any easier. These are some of the most volatile environments, where animals must endure an ever-shifting journey through freeze, fire, flood and drought. Life is harder than ever for the wildlife featured in this episode, from harsh weather and mating battles to the predator-and-prey dance.
- As the dry season gets longer each year, the rainy season gets more destructive. In the jungles of Amazon, jaguars and crocks fight over the dwindling prey, but tiny killers like the Cordyceps fungi present true horror.
- The planet's hottest habitats - our deserts - are getting even hotter, drier and bigger, yet a host of remarkable animals still survive in the harshest conditions, including cunning hyenas, pint-sized meerkats and sand-dwelling spiders. Follow their lives through a single day in the desert to appreciate how they deal with the sun's formidable power as it grows stronger with every passing minute.
- Step inside the most frigid habitats on Earth - the poles. Here, the planet's ultimate survivalists include whale-hunting polar bears, leopard-seal-dodging penguins and a pack of Arctic wolves that can bring down a pair of musk oxen. Evolution has helped polar species combat the intense hostility of their habitats, but their world is changing rapidly and their resilience will be tested.
- From the African savanna to be Peruvian desert, lives of predators and prey are closely linked to the moon's cycles and the opportunies they bring.
- Mothers with cubs fight to survive and a lonely monkey finds safety in numbers as animals navigate cold landscape to socialize, hunt, climb and crawl.
- The oceans' tides ebb and flow in concert with the moon, and so do lives of the creatures below from the largest whale shark to the smallest prawn.
- After dark, the natural world appears in unnatural places: Migrating elephants stroll through town and urbanized otters romp in the city.
- The night unfolds to reveal magic in the air, drama in the deep and danger on the ground as animals across the planet rise with the sunset.
- 2019– 44mTV-PG7.3 (67)TV EpisodeThe story of Moses and the Parting of the Red Sea is one of the best-known stories in the Bible, but did any of it actually happen? Scientist Albert Lin goes on an incredible adventure, hunting for clues amongst the most amazing sites in ancient Egypt. He uses the latest satellite technology to find the truth about what might really have happened.
- 2019–7.5 (59)TV EpisodeAlbert searches the Holy Land (in Jordan) for the possible location of Biblical cities that may have been or inspired Soddom and Gomorrha. IN Jordqn, near the Dead Sea, Siddim -the name refers to the salt lake- fits the bill by age and even destruction by fire. He learns from Petra cities in such deserts could thrive on trade routes and ingenious irrigation. Geology shows the fire could result from an earthquake caused by the tectonic rift, which Ancient people would believe to be the hand of God.
- Albert Lin searches for evidence of great floods around the world based on ancient stories.
- The Roman empire grew and prospered unprecedented by combining exemplary organization, technological advances and military skills with fortunate climate in its 'Golden Age', virtually unifying the Mediterranean world under its 'Pax Romana'. Then it even coped with a major pandemic, possible small pocks, wiping out several over its about 50 million inhabitants. Having stabilized its expanse towards Rhine and Danube, it suffered the effects of worse climate, causing major Germanic and other migrations from the east and north and weakening it as did the much worse pest pandemic, which lay demographic waste to whole cities and regions and kept reemerging all the feudal age, while political stability was shredded by rival generals engaging in coups and civil wars. Medical ignorance -even some counterproductive therapy, despite some progress, both record by physician Galen- causes some great achievements like the baths and sewer systems, to facilitate the spread of germs and diseases, especially in growing cities, most of all the capital, first in Europe to surpass a million people until Victorian London, dependent on huge food imports and unable to drain he marshes breeding malaria mosquitoes.
- The first millennium BC saw in and around the Mediterranean an unprecedented growth in demography, economy, technology and politics, resulting in the first true superpower. A milder climate and the discovery of iron enabled a revolution in productivity, literally feeding urbanization and the establishment of stronger states. The dispersed Greeks lived in city states near (natural) sea ports and championed maritime trade and colonization, like Phoenicians. Only Athens managed to become the early metropolis, until Alexander the Great's Macedonian dynasty united Greece and conquered the Persian empire, only to fall apart after his early death into several empires, wealthy Egypt being the main, new capital Alexandria as new leading metropolis. Yet Rome, one of many tiny states in central Italy, thanks to superior collaboration and organization, started unifying them and annexing territories around, like grain producer Sicily and Iberian silver mines after its triumph over rival Carthage. A volcanic cloud in Alaska possibly sealed the fate of Egypt when Cleopatra, last 'Greek pharaoh' by Caesar's hand, allied with candidate-ruler Marc Anthony and followed him in suicide after Octavian's total victory. Rome grew by raising armies of citizens, but has just switched to mercenaries, who enabled their generals to overrule the political elite, yielding civil war. Climate worsening to the north and east caused massive migrations, which even the best organized empire ultimately couldn't resist, despite turning to allied tribes to ward off the new threats.
- Majestic, powerful and deadly, big cats were once thought to be solitary creatures. But we're now realizing just how collaborative they can be.
- Be it foxes on city streets or wolves on the tundra, canines rely on sharp senses, athleticism and fierce determination to punch above their weight.