Life on Earth 1
1979-01-16 | Documentary | 13 episodes2 Seasons
Episode
The Infinite Variety (1979)
This episode explores the variety of nature as a whole, from the South American rainforest's to the shores of Australia.
Building Bodies (1979)
This episode explores the various sea-living invertebrates, form the shores of Morocco to Delaware Bay.
The First Forests (1979)
Over 400 million years ago, tiny plants began to invade the land, followed by the first animals - the ancestors of scorpions, millipedes and insects
The Swarming Hordes (1979)
The role of a few of the millions of insect species, some of which have developed extremely close relationships with plants. Insects pollinate flowers and in some cases neither flower nor insect can survive without the other.
Conquest of the Waters (1979)
A look at some of the 30,000 species of fish which exist in populations of billions. They can fly, produce electricity, survive in hot soda lakes or under the Antarctic ice. Some, like the salmon, even migrate across oceans and up waterfalls