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The epic story of three legendary women who fought to save the great apes — and inspired a generation.
Canada's prairies are among the world's most endangered, least protected ecosystems, but there are people working to keep them wild.
The remarkable story of a solitary wolf living against the odds and his close bond with renowned wildlife photographer Cheryl Alexander.
A captivating exploration of the science of colour, including a look at people and animals who experience it in fascinating ways.
For most of its existence, planet Earth has been a brutal, inhospitable, toxic nightmare, until a half billion years ago when – KABOOM! – life suddenly appeared. First Animals, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, takes you back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us more about our own origins.
Renowned evolutionary biologist Maydianne Andrade is our guide, showing us how complex – and dangerous – life among the first animals really was.
“The information embedded in this rock is evolution’s raw data,” says Andrade. “We see how the first guts digested food, how the first eyes processed images, how the first hunters tracked down their prey.
“These are the very early building blocks of animal evolution.”
High up a mountainside in a British Columbia fossil bed, Andrade joins a team from the Royal Ontario Museum, led by paleontologist Jean-Bernard Caron. They are literally exposing hundreds of new fossils every day.
There's still so much we don't know about fear. Could it be good for you? What would life be like without it?
In the Arctic, life thrives on the ice and under it. But for how long? Extreme diver Jill Heinerth investigates.
On the remote shores of Sable Island, N.S., we meet the world’s largest breeding colony of grey seals and the people who study them.
The accidental discovery in Alberta of one of the best-preserved dinosaurs ever opens a prehistoric cold case to uncover the secrets of its mysterious death.
In 1977, health experts declared a war on sodium. We sift through a mountain of salt science for a grain of truth.
An introduction to the unsung animal heroes who clean up messes in the urban spaces they share with humans.
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki takes us on a personal and intimate journey to discover the spectacular and surprising world of the intertidal zone, and reveal how it holds the key to the health of the world’s oceans and our own survival.
One of the world's most incredible urban wildernesses. It offers a fascinatingly vivid account of the push-pull relationship at play in humankind's transformation of natural environments...and a reminder of nature's power when left to it's own devices.
Scientists uncover the complex and emotional lives of the ocean’s most intelligent predators.
David Suzuki takes us on a journey to learn how to live better and age well.
Scientists are racing against time to save the world’s coral reefs before they’re lost forever.
7 weeks, 8,000km, countless adventures...and 1 gram of honey. The life of a single bee, through her own eyes.
7 weeks, 8,000km, countless adventures...and 1 gram of honey. The life of a single bee, through her own eyes.
