Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.
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Netflix
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- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes aired
- 8
- Latest aired
- S01E01
- Total runtime
- 6h 55min
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S01E01 Chapter 1: The Rules of Life
October 25 · 43min find the promo
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Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.
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S01E02 Chapter 2: The First Frontier
October 25 · 54min find the promo
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For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — two mass extinctions.
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S01E03 Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land
October 25 · 57min find the promo
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Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.
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S01E04 Chapter 4: In Cold Blood
October 25 · 55min find the promo
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After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
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S01E05 Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants
October 25 · 51min find the promo
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The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.
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S01E06 Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes
October 25 · 53min find the promo
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The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.
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S01E07 Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth
October 25 · 52min find the promo
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Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.
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S01E08 Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire
October 25 · 50min find the promo
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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?