In A World of Whale Sound Beneath the Sea, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows scientists as they track whales. This tracking enables the scientists to redirect shipping and reduce collisions. Tracking also allows them to monitor how the whales use sound as a vital means of communication deep beneath the sea. Unfortunately, human activity and noise pollution is masking some of that sound, having an impact on whale behavior in ways that we’re still learning about. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Horizon: The Death of the Oceans, which reveals what scientists are learning about what is happening in the oceans and whether it is too late to save their remarkable diversity.
In Continental Drift in Action, narrator Michael Mosley discovers that over millions of years, ongoing continental drift has transformed our planet. Today, the gap between North America and Eurasia is getting wider as the currents in the mantle of the earth drive the plates apart. Scientists like Pete LaFemina are able to measure and monitor this movement using GPS. This video is excerpted from BBC's The Story of Science, in which Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
In The Theory of a Supercontinent and the Cold War Discovery That Proved It, narrator Michael Mosley shares how German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed a radical new theory — that all of the continents had once fit together as one supercontinent that he called Pangaea. It wasn’t until the Cold War that the oceans were mapped, and scientists discovered the interlocking plates of the seafloor that could provide evidence for Wegener’s theory. This video is excerpted from BBC's The Story of Science, in which Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
In Adélie Penguin Chicks at the Bottom of the World, host Andy Day highlights the Adélie penguins living in Antarctica. Starting out their lives on land, the penguin chicks practice walking and learn endurance by racing to get their portion of food from the parent who only has one portion for the two chicks. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy’s Baby Animals, in which Andy Day explores the lives and experiences of baby animals.
In On the Move, Tectonic Plates Continue to Shape Our World, narrator Richard Hammond describes how shifting tectonic plates are responsible for earthquakes and mountain ranges, and even the creation of new land. When plates collide, the land buckles and creates mountain ranges like the Alps and the Himalayas. Mount Everest, the highest peak on the planet, gets higher by two-tenths of an inch each year because the tectonic plates are still pushing together. This video is excerpted from BBC's Earth Machine, in which Richard Hammond goes to the center of the planet to find out how the Earth works.
In The Amazing Teamwork of Emperor Penguin Parents, host Andy Day journeys to Antarctica where emperor penguin fathers sit patiently with their egg on their feet for two months while the mothers fish for food. When the penguin parents are reunited, the egg has hatched and the mother takes over babysitting while the father goes to feed. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy’s Baby Animals, in which Andy Day explores the lives and experiences of baby animals.
In The Red Knot Bird's Essential Pit Stop, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows red knot birds on their nearly 10,000 mile (16,000 kilometer) journey from Argentina to Canada. They stop in Delaware Bay to feast on horseshoe crab eggs, needing to eat up to 400,000 eggs to double their weight before continuing their journey. But all that feeding makes them easy targets for predators like the peregrine falcon, adding danger to their incredible adventure! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In Cheetah Brothers Work Together to Hunt, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows three cheetah brothers living in Mount Kenya as they try to hunt zebras. At first, their plan falls apart when one cheetah is blocked by a big zebra, and the others miss their targets. Realizing they need to work together, the brothers switch their focus to a lone ostrich, which is faster and heavier than any of them. But by teaming up, the cheetahs finally succeed in catching their prey. This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In Penguin Parents' Epic Journey to Feed Their Chicks, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how chinstrap penguins in Antarctica travel very far to hunt for krill, but the real challenge is getting the food back to their babies on the steep, muddy rim of Deception Island. After battling powerful currents and a slippery climb, the penguins use their excellent hearing to find their chicks in a colony of over 150,000. Once they deliver the krill, the other parent heads out to sea to repeat the journey. This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In A Weddell Seal Family's Journey, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how a mother seal and her pup brave the freezing cold near the South Pole. These seals are the only animals that can survive here, staying warm thanks to a thick layer of fat beneath their skin and their special fur. The mother feeds her pup and carefully maintains their diving hole in the water to prevent it from freezing over, ensuring they can get air. And, at just one week old, the pup takes its first swim beneath the ice! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In The Great Fruit Bat Feast, narrator Sir David Attenborough considers the fruit bats of the Congo, with wings nearly a meter wide, as they embark on a journey to a remote swamp in Zambia. These bats travel hundreds of miles to feast on fruit, devouring nearly 1 billion pieces in just a few weeks! The mystery of how they know exactly when and where to go remains unsolved, but their incredible journey shows how far they’ll travel for a good meal! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In A Meerkat Family Story, narrator Sir David Attenborough introduces us to a lively family of meerkats working together like a well-organized team. At the center is their queen, who leads the family and is the main one to have pups. These pups are now learning key survival skills, like digging for food and carefully handling scorpions. For safety purposes, one meerkat always stands guard while the others rest or play, showing the power of teamwork. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In A World of Whale Sound Beneath the Sea, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows scientists as they track whales. This tracking enables the scientists to redirect shipping and reduce collisions. Tracking also allows them to monitor how the whales use sound as a vital means of communication deep beneath the sea. Unfortunately, human activity and noise pollution is masking some of that sound, having an impact on whale behavior in ways that we’re still learning about. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Horizon: The Death of the Oceans, which reveals what scientists are learning about what is happening in the oceans and whether it is too late to save their remarkable diversity.
In Continental Drift in Action, narrator Michael Mosley discovers that over millions of years, ongoing continental drift has transformed our planet. Today, the gap between North America and Eurasia is getting wider as the currents in the mantle of the earth drive the plates apart. Scientists like Pete LaFemina are able to measure and monitor this movement using GPS. This video is excerpted from BBC's The Story of Science, in which Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
In The Theory of a Supercontinent and the Cold War Discovery That Proved It, narrator Michael Mosley shares how German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed a radical new theory — that all of the continents had once fit together as one supercontinent that he called Pangaea. It wasn’t until the Cold War that the oceans were mapped, and scientists discovered the interlocking plates of the seafloor that could provide evidence for Wegener’s theory. This video is excerpted from BBC's The Story of Science, in which Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
In Adélie Penguin Chicks at the Bottom of the World, host Andy Day highlights the Adélie penguins living in Antarctica. Starting out their lives on land, the penguin chicks practice walking and learn endurance by racing to get their portion of food from the parent who only has one portion for the two chicks. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy’s Baby Animals, in which Andy Day explores the lives and experiences of baby animals.
In On the Move, Tectonic Plates Continue to Shape Our World, narrator Richard Hammond describes how shifting tectonic plates are responsible for earthquakes and mountain ranges, and even the creation of new land. When plates collide, the land buckles and creates mountain ranges like the Alps and the Himalayas. Mount Everest, the highest peak on the planet, gets higher by two-tenths of an inch each year because the tectonic plates are still pushing together. This video is excerpted from BBC's Earth Machine, in which Richard Hammond goes to the center of the planet to find out how the Earth works.
In The Amazing Teamwork of Emperor Penguin Parents, host Andy Day journeys to Antarctica where emperor penguin fathers sit patiently with their egg on their feet for two months while the mothers fish for food. When the penguin parents are reunited, the egg has hatched and the mother takes over babysitting while the father goes to feed. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy’s Baby Animals, in which Andy Day explores the lives and experiences of baby animals.
In The Red Knot Bird's Essential Pit Stop, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows red knot birds on their nearly 10,000 mile (16,000 kilometer) journey from Argentina to Canada. They stop in Delaware Bay to feast on horseshoe crab eggs, needing to eat up to 400,000 eggs to double their weight before continuing their journey. But all that feeding makes them easy targets for predators like the peregrine falcon, adding danger to their incredible adventure! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In Cheetah Brothers Work Together to Hunt, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows three cheetah brothers living in Mount Kenya as they try to hunt zebras. At first, their plan falls apart when one cheetah is blocked by a big zebra, and the others miss their targets. Realizing they need to work together, the brothers switch their focus to a lone ostrich, which is faster and heavier than any of them. But by teaming up, the cheetahs finally succeed in catching their prey. This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In Penguin Parents' Epic Journey to Feed Their Chicks, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how chinstrap penguins in Antarctica travel very far to hunt for krill, but the real challenge is getting the food back to their babies on the steep, muddy rim of Deception Island. After battling powerful currents and a slippery climb, the penguins use their excellent hearing to find their chicks in a colony of over 150,000. Once they deliver the krill, the other parent heads out to sea to repeat the journey. This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In A Weddell Seal Family's Journey, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how a mother seal and her pup brave the freezing cold near the South Pole. These seals are the only animals that can survive here, staying warm thanks to a thick layer of fat beneath their skin and their special fur. The mother feeds her pup and carefully maintains their diving hole in the water to prevent it from freezing over, ensuring they can get air. And, at just one week old, the pup takes its first swim beneath the ice! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In The Great Fruit Bat Feast, narrator Sir David Attenborough considers the fruit bats of the Congo, with wings nearly a meter wide, as they embark on a journey to a remote swamp in Zambia. These bats travel hundreds of miles to feast on fruit, devouring nearly 1 billion pieces in just a few weeks! The mystery of how they know exactly when and where to go remains unsolved, but their incredible journey shows how far they’ll travel for a good meal! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In A Meerkat Family Story, narrator Sir David Attenborough introduces us to a lively family of meerkats working together like a well-organized team. At the center is their queen, who leads the family and is the main one to have pups. These pups are now learning key survival skills, like digging for food and carefully handling scorpions. For safety purposes, one meerkat always stands guard while the others rest or play, showing the power of teamwork. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.