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This unique television experience celebrates the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, distinctive and spectacularly beautiful. David Attenborough travels across the seven continents in an intrepid television quest that begins in North America where he witnesses dawn breaking over the forbidding terrain of Death Valley. He completes his global journey in the world's most isolated wild place, Antarctica, where he reflects on...

Chris Packham investigates the strangest stories from the natural world. He uncovers the mysterious sudden death of hundreds of reindeer in Norway, discovers a mythical boiling river in Peru and finds out why blood-red rain appeared in Spain. Chris also reveals a bird that sings with its wings and a heartwarming stork romance.

Meet a man who gets drunk without touching even a single drop of alcohol thanks to his strange metabolism. Also featuring a look at some chart-topping molecular music.

In this episode, Chris Packham uncovers nature's super-survivors: a frog whose dinner is fighting back, a shark with the secret to long life and a prehistoric fish with a thirst for blood that almost destroyed an entire fishing industry. A foray into freak weather reveals why a monster wave shocked swimmers in Sydney and how two fisherman were engulfed by a fog tsunami on Lake Michigan. The senses also come under scrutiny as Chris investigates whether...

In this episode Chris Packham uncovers some bizarre events from the natural world. He examines a mysterious die-off of saiga in Kazakhstan and strange holes ripped out of the clouds. He charts the advance of a crab army in Norwegian waters, finds out what's killing off seabirds on remote islands, investigates why spiders are glowing in the dark, sheds light on chimps with rock dolls and discovers strange mineral deposits alive in the caves under France....

Chris Packham investigates mysteries and new discoveries from the natural world. He solves the puzzle of strange balls of worms on a road and fish stuck in fences in Texas. He explains how an Australian town became plagued by giant bats and why so many sperm whales became stranded around the North Sea in 2015. Chris also explores how a robot could help save the Great Barrier Reef, why eagles might be the best defense against dangerous drones and how...

In the first episode of this series, Chris Packham investigates the strangest stories from the natural world. He finds out why Spain is under attack from spaceballs, learns how a penguin became a man's best friend and discovers prehistoric lions that could be brought back from the dead. Chris also uncovers the origin of a mysterious underwater blob, unearths goblin's gold, and reveals a slimy invasion in Florida.

This fast-paced and refreshing take on nature documentaries returns to explore more of the unexplained, unexpected and utterly weird aspects of life on our planet. It features the divers who found a transparent blob the size of an elephant under the water, meets the researchers who filmed an army of mice eating the brains of seabird chicks, and finds out what caused the flowing river of ice caught on camera in the Saudi Arabian desert. Using scientific...

Revealing the secrets behind the world's weirdest events from a bird-killing solar death ray to a monkey that's learnt first aid.