How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this 3-part science series that looks at human evolution. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates — the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree.

THE BRAIN is an astonishing voyage of discovery into our last biological frontier. Although today s ...

Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the plane...

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the ...

Examines the devastating effect that overfishing has had on the world's fish populations and argues ...

Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwate...

Science Breakthroughs: Homo Naledi Discovered in 2013, new and puzzling finding of small-skulled fos...

Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an explor...

Can science help us understand these crimes?

The film follows Tarcísio Amaro, a retired miner living in the vicinity of Serra da Estrela, interwe...

A 3-D documentary chronicling a sea turtle's journey across the oceans.

A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite)...

On a hot summer day, a young man from Philadelphia goes for an afternoon dip; when he is 40 feet fro...

David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no un...

Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a 200 million year old Ichthyosaur on the Juras...

Imagine walking some of the largest land animals in existence across one of the most densely populat...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)...

The Siberian discovery of the best-preserved woolly mammoth on record has teams of experts working a...