The Nature of Things - Season 59

The epic story of three legendary women who fought to save the great apes - and inspired a generation.

Canada's prairies are among the world's most endangered, least protected ecosystems, but there are people working to keep them wild.

The remarkable story of a solitary wolf living against the odds and his close bond with renowned wildlife photographer Cheryl Alexander.

A captivating exploration of the science of colour, including a look at people and animals who experience it in fascinating ways.

For most of its existence, planet Earth has been a brutal, inhospitable, toxic nightmare, until a half billion years ago when – KABOOM! – life suddenly appeared. First Animals, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, takes you back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us more about our own origins.

Why do some people seek out terrifying experiences, while others avoid fear at all costs? Why does fear spur some to fight and leave others frozen? Although the emotion of fear is as old as life itself, scientists are asking new questions and getting new answers about how our brains process it

Under Thin Ice follows Canadian extreme divers and cinematographers Jill Heinerth and Mario Cyr on a journey to investigate how Arctic wildlife is adjusting to global warming.

Sable Island, Nova Scotia, is a remote, almost mythical landscape in the northwest Atlantic that's famous for its wild horses. But what many people don't know is that it's also home to the largest breeding colony of grey seals in the world. Every winter, tens of thousands of female seals head to Sable to give birth. In 2016 alone, more than 80,000 pups were born. Huge males arrive too, ready to fight for the right to breed with their chosen female.

The accidental discovery in Alberta of one of the best-preserved dinosaurs opens a prehistoric cold case to uncover the secrets of its mysterious death.

Sifting through a mountain of salt science for a grain of truth about the war on sodium declared by health experts in 1977.

An introduction to the unsung animal heroes who clean up messes in the urban spaces they share with humans.

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki takes us on a personal and intimate journey to discover the spectacular and surprising world of the intertidal zone, and reveal how it holds the key to the health of the world's oceans and our own survival.

One of the world's most incredible urban wildernesses. It offers a fascinatingly vivid account of the push-pull relationship at play in humankind's transformation of natural environments...and a reminder of nature's power when left to it's own devices.

Scientists uncover the complex and emotional lives of the ocean's most intelligent predators.

David Suzuki takes us on a journey to learn how to live better and age well.

Scientists are racing against time to save the world's coral reefs before they're lost forever.

7 weeks, 8,000km, countless adventures...and 1 gram of honey. The life of a single bee, through her own eyes.