History | Nature
Station:
BBC iPlayer (GB)
Status:
To Be Determined
Start:
2026-07-13
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From a single spark of life, through millions of generations, animals have become diverse, weird and beautiful. Chris Packham tells the incredible story in astonishing new detail.
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S1E1 - The Elephant
How did the elephant get so big? Chris Packham explores the four-billion-year story of how a tiny cell evolved into complex, gentle giants.
Air Date: 13 Jul 2026 00:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - The Ostrich
How did the ostrich come to lay the biggest egg on Earth? Chris Packham explores the way reproduction has shaped life on Earth and the surprising evolutionary origins of sex, eggs and birds. It's a four billion year journey contained within a shell.
Air Date: 13 Jul 2026 00:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - The Bat
How did the bat get so hungry? Chris Packham explores how the drive to find food has shaped animal life. The origin of bums, guts, jaws and super-hearing.
Air Date: 13 Jul 2026 00:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - The Dolphin
How did the dolphin get so smart? Chris Packham explores the origins of senses, brains and intelligence, in an evolutionary odyssey that ventures from ocean to land and back again.
Air Date: 13 Jul 2026 00:00 (CDT)
S1E5 - The Horse
How did the horse become so fast? Chris Packham sets out on a slithering, swimming, sprinting odyssey that explores the evolutionary beginnings of animal movement and how it reached its peak in one of the most elegant and athletic animals on Earth: the horse.
Air Date: 13 Jul 2026 00:00 (CDT)