The relative of the woodlouse is the size of a dinner plate. And this so-called sea spider has legs that span half a meter. Now explorers are revealing other worlds that lie hidden beneath the ice on land. These smoking towers are the gateway to a ne...
Exhausted, it no longer has the energy to pull itself to safety. And the killers are moving in. Game over. Although such team hunts are rarely seen, scientists believe they may be the most complex ever documented in the natural world. They were first...
The seal is now what the killers wanted, but the hunt is far from over. They need to wrap their prey by the tail while avoiding its snapping jaws, only then will they be able to put it down and drown it. Side swipes create farther underwater turbulen...
The remnants of the sea ice are occupied by sun-bathing seals that have been here all winter. But new arrivals are following the retreating ice edge and they have come here to hunt. Killer whales, the ocean's top predator, killers are like wolves for...
Every summer, over 40 million penguins take to the southern ocean to feed. They are joined by thousands of whales. Minkes are the most numerous. They all come here to harvest the richest ocean on earth. Carrying on south, we have our first our glimps...
And fishing can be dangerous. A southern sea lion. It uses the speed of a breaking wave to catch up the gentoos. Sea lions normally eat fish. So he is used to catching stream-line swimmers. But the gentoos seem more than his match-up at sea. He must...
The tiger forest marks the end of our journey through the Arctic, from the frozen ocean down across the lands that surround it. The other end of our planet, the Antarctic is starkly different, a frozen continent completely surrounded by ocean. Iceber...
As the warm humid air from the south meet the cold Arctic, the moisture is crystalized and snowflakes form from the sky. Each crystal froms around a particle of dust. All have a six-fold symmetry, but no two have ever been found with exactly the same...
The bisons form a defense circle around their young, horns pointing outwards. The wolves needs the bisons to break rank, but the table is turning, now the wolves have to retreat, the pack focuse their attention on the rear of the herd, and the bisons...
A colossal iceberg is born. This single block of ice, many hundreds of meters across, would toss the biggest mankind buildings. Every year, tens of thousands of icebergs are spooned by Greenland's glaciers and the number is steady increasing as the c...
