Episodes List
Ep.1 Chapter 1: The Rules of Life
Air Date: 2023-10-25
Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.
Ep.2 Chapter 2: The First Frontier
Air Date: 2023-10-25
For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — two mass extinctions.
Ep.3 Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land
Air Date: 2023-10-25
Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.
Ep.4 Chapter 4: In Cold Blood
Air Date: 2023-10-25
After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
Ep.5 Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants
Air Date: 2023-10-25
The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.
Ep.6 Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes
Air Date: 2023-10-25
The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.
Ep.7 Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth
Air Date: 2023-10-25
Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.
Ep.8 Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire
Air Date: 2023-10-25
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?
