Life Force

Extraordinary show that reveals how forces of nature through sheer power of evolution shaped life in all it's unexpected and glorious forms, and filled our planet with amazing diversity of animals and plants.

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Documentary
Created By

Satoshi Okabe

First Aired on

Dec 04, 2010

2 seaons till Aug 18, 2014

Popularity: 6.4455
3 votes
Networks
(US)
(US)
(CN)
(AU)
(JP)
(FR)
Production

Discovery (US)NHK (JP)Animal PlanetScience Channel (US)CCTV (CN)France.tv Studio (FR)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: China: Roof of the World

Seasons & episodes

Total 2 seasons, 12 episodes

Season 1

Aired

6 Episodes
  • Episode 1New Zealand51 min

    New Zealand is a fairytale archipelago with a turbulent geological past. A land with astonishing creatures: flightless birds, night dwellers and even living fossils. Evolution has run wild on this isolated land, producing some of the world's most unusual animals.

  • Episode 2Australia51 min

    Australia is a floating laboratory whose ancient geological past and changing climate have triggered mutations in the animals here, culminating in over 200 species of bizarre pouched marsupials, which are all equipped with astounding survival features.

  • Episode 3Brazil's Cerrado51 min

    On Brazil's ancient Cerrado grassland a community of eccentric creatures are all inter-dependent, and all life revolves around the landscape of mysterious mud-caked monoliths.

  • Episode 4Africa's Rift Valley Lakes51 min

    Africa's freshwater Great Lakes are the birthplace of the biggest, fastest, and perhaps the strangest mutation of any vertebrate on Earth. Could these fish actually be as intelligent as chimps?

  • Episode 5Madagascar51 min

    The land of lemurs, an ancient primate family that evolved from only one small group which arrived on the island more than 60 million years ago. For them Madagascar became the land of evolutionary opportunity and today there are almost 100 living species.

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