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Examines how plants and animals adapt to their physical surroundings in a variety of environments.

Using CGI and Fossil evidence, it demonstrates nature's survival of the fittest in action. This series illuminates unique and bizarre evolutionary journeys that have brought forth some of the world's most impressive animals.

This dynamic, high definition, science DVD defines and helps children explore the terms living, non-living, life cycle, endangered species and extinct. Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts.

"Join two leading biologists on an exploration of how key developmental genes, natural selection, and time fuel the evolutionary process"--Cover.

Learn all about natural selection and adaptations. What natural selection is, what adaptations are, ways that animals have adapted to their environments, what fossils are, what the fossil record is, factors that affect how well the fossil record is preserved. These are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video.

Academy Award-winning filmmakers expose the forces that are leading our planet to its next mass extinction, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. A never-before-seen view of an international wildlife trade, operating in the shadows, reveals how creatures that have survived for millions of years may be wiped from Earth in our lifetime.

A new series that explores the dramatic contests between predators and their prey.

Solitary marine biology student Siobhan endures a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she's miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew start succumbing to a strange infection, Siobhan must overcome her alienation and win the crew's trust, before everyone is lost.

Take an awe-inspiring journey to discover some of the Earth's most precious living treasures. From the smallest living beings to the magnificent giants of the animals world, life is ever-present in all its rollicking and diverse forms. Yet the dangers posed by human development and encroachment on animals' natural habitats loom ever present, and Life examines the forces in conflict that threaten the natural world.