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Life on Earth

“A natural history by David Attenborough”

197955m / epDocumentary

First aired

January 16, 1979

9.1

TMDB Score

91% match · 50 votes

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S01 · E05

Conquest of the Waters

Season 1 · Feb 13, 1979 · 55m

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E01▶

The Infinite Variety

Jan 16, 1979 · 55m

E02▶

Building Bodies

Jan 23, 1979 · 54m

E03▶

The First Forests

Jan 30, 1979 · 54m

E04▶

The Swarming Hordes

Feb 6, 1979 · 55m

E05Playing

Conquest of the Waters

Feb 13, 1979 · 55m

E06▶

Invasion of the Land

Feb 20, 1979 · 55m

E07▶

Victors of the Dry Land

Feb 27, 1979 · 55m

E08▶

Lords of the Air

Mar 6, 1979 · 54m

E09▶

The Rise of the Mammals

Mar 13, 1979 · 54m

E10▶

Theme and Variations

Mar 20, 1979 · 53m

E11▶

The Hunters and Hunted

Mar 27, 1979 · 55m

E12▶

Life in the Trees

Apr 3, 1979 · 55m

E13▶

The Compulsive Communicators

Apr 10, 1979 · 54m

Fish occur in populations of billions and there are over 30,000 species, more than in any other group of backboned animals. The development of the backbone was a crucial advance in evolution -and it probably came from a most unlikely source, a little jelly-like creature called a sea squirt.