Life on Our Planet — Season 1
The battle for survival.
About this season
Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.
Episodes (8)
1. Chapter 1: The Rules of Life
8.0Aired 25 October 2023 • 43 min
Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.
2. Chapter 2: The First Frontier
8.2Aired 25 October 2023 • 54 min
For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — two mass extinctions.
3. Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land
8.4Aired 25 October 2023 • 57 min
Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.
4. Chapter 4: In Cold Blood
8.0Aired 25 October 2023 • 55 min
After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
5. Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants
7.8Aired 25 October 2023 • 51 min
The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.
6. Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes
8.2Aired 25 October 2023 • 53 min
The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.
7. Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth
6.7Aired 25 October 2023 • 52 min
Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.
8. Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire
7.0Aired 25 October 2023 • 50 min
As the Ice Age thawed, humans rose above the rest. But the possibility of a sixth mass extinction now looms: Has our ingenuity caused our downfall?