They have no roots, no seeds, no flowers, but mosses show immense survival capacities and can suspend their biological activity for long periods. Today, researchers are exploring the exceptional resistance of these archaic organisms. British ecologists have even resurrected a "zombie" moss that has been trapped in the permafrost for 1,500 years. Associated with decay and disliked in Europe, mosses are deified in Japan. With 25,000 species worldwide, bryophytes - their scientific name - are the seat of real ecosystems, and can develop in inhospitable landscapes, through an extravagant reproduction cycle.

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...

Narrated by David Attenborough, this film explores the private life of a pair of Barn Owls. Often a...

A new scientific expedition follows the King Cobra into the wild for the first time.

A team of explorers set out to explore the sea and land of the remote Pitcairn Islands

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together whi...

Three great whites are spotted in the waters off Oahu, but another one could be lurking just below t...

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

Roam the Wild West frontier land of the Rio Grande’s Big Bend alongside its iconic animals, includin...

From space, our planet appears as a tiny blue dot in the vastness of space. Blue, because 99% of all...

Our love affair with dolphins began with 'Flipper' and ended in a multi-million dollar industry of a...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

RiverBlue chronicles an unprecedented around-the-world river adventure, led by renowned paddler and ...

Journey to a secret valley in Australia, where a nervous baby kangaroo named Mala faces hungry dingo...

Join us as we explore life on the highest mountain plateau on Earth. This beautiful and other worldl...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...

On February 14, 2000, Disney debuted a sequel television documentary series to the True-Life Adventu...