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This engaging program explains the level of organization necessary for the structure and functioning of multicellular organisms, including cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Focusing on the nervous system of multicellular organisms, the video features dissections of a cane toad and a worm to illustrate the different forms and functions of both vertebrate and invertebrate nervous systems.
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In this episode Brian Cox visits South East Asia's 'Ring of Fire'. Attending the annual Day of the Dead in the Philippine highlands, he explores the thin line between life and death, and raises the question: what is life? Brian explains the laws governing energy and reveals life to be a conduit through which energy passes. Visiting a volcano, he demonstrates how the first spark of life may have arisen through a source of energy created by chemical...
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A high-energy blend of wildlife footage and quirky motion graphics, this collection of 26 fun and informative one-minute video clips highlights important facts about animals, from basic to bizarre. What's on these creatures' menus? Where do they like to hang out? How do they get from place to place? Animal Crackers tells it like it is as it introduces viewers to penguins with crazy hairdos, monkeys with massive noses, dancing lemurs, ferocious frill-necked...
4) Size Matters
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In this episode, Prof. Brian Cox travels around Australia to explore the physics of the size of life. He explores the largest flowering plant- the Mountain Ash, takes to the seas to get up-close with a great white shark, tracks the largest living marsupial (a the red kangaroo) in the outback, examines the insects of Queensland's rainforests, scrutinizes trichogramma in the Glass House Mountains, studies thrombolites near Perth, inspects the tiny Southern...
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Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick. From Ovid to Kafka to X-Men, tales of metamorphosis richly permeate human culture. The myth of transformation is so common that it seems almost pre-programmed into our imagination. But is the scientific fact of metamorphosis just as strange as fiction or...even stranger? Filmmaker David Malone explores the science behind metamorphosis.
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Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out what makes a human, human? What separates us from our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees? We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and yet from the moment of birth, our lives are completely different. So are we just another animal, or is there something special about being human? Before her new baby emerges...
8) Evolve: Skin
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From the delicate membranes that encased the earliest animals to the leathery hides that protected the dinosaurs, this program looks at how skin has changed and adapted to practically any challenge it has faced over time.
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Insects outnumber us by 200 million to one. They thrive in environments where humans cannot and without insects, entire ecosystems would collapse, crops would disappear and waste would pile high. The secret of their success? Their incredible alien anatomy. To reveal this extraordinary hidden world, entomologists Dr. James Logan and Brendan Dunphy carry out a complete insect dissection. Cutting-edge imaging technology shows us the beauty and precision...
10) The Worm Hunters
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In a Turkish headquarters the world's top earthworm scientists concoct a plan to find and name their ultimate discovery. Nothing will stop them as they travel to all corners of the world with spades, GPS worm locators, and secret worm outing fluids to unearth their prize. But love turns savage when things don't go as planned and the worm gets the upper hand. An epic adventure into an underground science and an unstoppable passion.
11) Evolve: Flight
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This program reveals the secrets - and the continuing mysteries - of the very first vertebrate flyer: the pterosaur, which escaped its earthly bounds 220 million years ago.
13) Evolve: Eyes
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This program illustrates how the eyeball evolved, from ancestors of jellyfish that developed light-sensitive cells to primates that use visual adaptations, including the ability to see color, to better exploit their habitat.
14) Evolve: Venom
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The deadliest natural weapon employed in the animal kingdom has independently evolved in creatures as diverse as jellyfish, insects, snakes, and even mammals. In this program, scientists show how evolution has adapted venom to fit the needs of the animals who wield it.
15) Evolve: Shape
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This program explores the evolution of animal shape and how the slightest alteration of a leg or a head can mean the difference between existence and extinction.
16) Evolve: Speed
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What are the environmental forces that create a need for speed? How have animal bodies adapted to achieve high rates of locomotion? This program provides the answers.
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Amidst the rich natural history of the United States, Professor Brian Cox encounters the astonishing creatures that reveal how the senses evolved. Every animal on Earth experiences the world in a different way, using a unique suite of senses to detect its physical environment. Tracing the evolution of these mechanisms is a story that takes us through life's journey-from single-celled organisms to more complex, sentient beings. Brian finds that over...
18) Evolve: Size
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Life has evolved into a multitude of sizes. This program will help viewers understand the amazing processes that have given the planet vertebrates smaller than a thumbnail (the Cuban frog) and longer than a locomotive (the blue whale).
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This documentary shows the diverse and mostly unknown wildlife of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), the second largest island of the Caribbean. More than 120 birds, including 30 endemic species, are shown in their natural environment. See special sites with higher diversity and animals of special interest that share these habitats, e.g. sea turtles, lizards, snakes; and two of the most endangered land mammals-the solenodon and the hutia-in...
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Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age. Why do some bodies age differently than...