The tropical island of Borneo: a strange and mysterious place of mutant creatures and plants seen nowhere else on Earth. Pygmy forest mammals, weird co-evolved partnerships between plants and animals, the world’s rarest ape and incredible gliders, occupy these 130 million year old jungles.
Isolated from the Asian mainland, Japan’s animals have been forced to evolve strategies to survive most violently active islands on earth in a climate of extremes.
On Brazil’s ancient Cerrado grassland a community of eccentric creatures has evolved to become totally inter-dependent, and all life revolves around mysterious mud-caked monoliths.
The epic journey of the world’s most arid continent has driven the evolution of its bizarre pouched mammals , until Australia has become the realm of marsupials.
Isolated for 80 million years, New Zealand is a hot spot of misfits and marvels...a kingdom ruled by birds.
Costa Rica is the most biodiverse country in the world for its size. Its many eco-systems harbour a stunning array of exotic creatures—a great evolutionary melting pot resulting from the migration of animals from North and South America when a great land bridge joined the two continents 3 million years ago.
In Africa’s Albertine Rift immense geological forces have created a huge variety of landscapes and transformed the climate. The unique residents of this evolutionary hotspot have been shaped by the Rift and evolved bizarre and unusual ways to survive.
In Southwestern China immense geological forces have uplifted the highest ecosystems on Earth. Only a special breed of survivors can live up here, on the Roof of the World.
India’s Western Ghats are a lush, jungle refuge in an otherwise parched landscape. They intercept most of the summer monsoon rain, creating a home for wide range of iconic animals and weird mutants all adapted to make the most of the monsoon rains.
An amazing array of plants and animals survives in the Namib, the world’s oldest desert. They’ve had fifty million years to evolve cunning ways to cope with the heat and harvest water from the fog that often blankets this unique coastal desert.
An isolated island once ruled by dinosaurs is transformed into a species factory where evolution creates wonders. Cycles of tumultuous geological and climatic events have forced all animals to mutate, creating an assemblage of the most amazing life on Earth. Madagascar is a story of survival...against all odds.
The Rift Valley Lakes of Africa tell the amazing evolutionary story of a small fish inside a species pressure cooker, unlike anywhere else on the planet.
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