Two scientists wade through the Everglades, evading alligators, one of its many wonders, while other investigators explore its topography and history. Human intervention in the last century had good intentions (hurricane control, swamp drainage) but resulted in increased storm damage, loss of natural water cleansing, and other unintended consequences. More Details

Scientific technologies and techniques are starting the restoration of the Everglades wetlands to nearly its pristine, natural state. Newly introduced and engineered plants are being used to cleanse the water of fertilizer chemicals and pollutants before reintroducing it back into the wetlands. More Details

A team of diver/scientists explores Florida’s St. John’s River from its source and along its tributaries until it empties into the Atlantic. They go below and above the river to show how humans have damaged watersheds. More Details

Gripping and enlightening, this program shows the interconnection of surface and subsurface waters. Two expert diver/scientists enter a Florida spring, floating crystal-clear waters over a heart-stopping tunnel drop into the black depths, and then follow an underground river for several miles. More Details

Since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens, astronomers have studied the planets, the stars, and distant galaxies. But there are some mysteries so deep the answers cannot be found with traditional tools. For those, it takes something entirely different: a revolutionary new kind of observatory built to detect the whisper of a signal that’s never been directly measured. More Details

Plants do just about everything and they can do even more when we understand them better. Plant genome research is revolutionizing the field of biology. This program takes viewers on a lively and upbeat journey that explores how plants got to be the way they are and how we can make better use of them in the future. More Details

The mysteries of ocean ecology are evident in the annual spawning of coral, the molting of lobsters, the feeding habits of sharks and cuttlefish, and the deadly attacks of squid. Live-action footage captures opalescent squid as they lay their eggs then die in vast numbers. These are the creatures that come out when twilight falls. More Details

Live-action underwater footage captures the ecological balance between animals and plants on a Caribbean coral reef. More Details

Live-action underwater photography captures the lives of predators and prey in the world’s oceans. More Details

Live-action underwater footage reveals the hunting habits of the oceans’ deadliest predators, sharks. More Details

Live-action film captures the lives of sea stars (starfish) inhabiting the ocean bottom. More Details

This colorful program shows the hunting habits and defenses of tuna, hammerhead sharks, snake eels, lobsters, hermit crabs, and several other species. More Details

Live-action underwater footage captures the lives of several whale species, including blue whales, southern right whales, humpback whales, sperm whales, and California gray whales. More Details

Live-action footage captures the mysteries of venomous marine creatures such as nudibranchs, sea anemones, jellyfish, moray eels, and scorpion fish. More Details

Doodlebugs are the larvae of the adult ant lion. These fierce predators hide under the sand and make unique traps in which to catch their prey. More Details

One of the most unique relationships in the insect world is revealed in this program. Aphids, or greenflies, suck the sap of plants and excrete a substance called honeydew. Ants use the honeydew as food and therefore protect the "herd" of greenflies from a variety of predators. More Details

Most insects begin life as eggs that hatch into larvae. In this program, two examples of aquatic larvae are shown: the stonefly and the spotted water beetle. More Details

Viewers will see many bees collecting nectar and pollen from a variety of different flowers. The roles and duties of the different bees in this society are shown and explained, as are the differences between pollen and nectar. More Details

This program compares social bees with solitary bees. Bumblebees are shown gathering pollen and building their nests, and some of their characteristics are contrasted with those of honeybees. More Details

Be amazed at the variety of ways insects have developed to protect themselves. Several methods are shown, including camouflage, warning colors, and mimicking the shape of an imposter. More Details

Marvel at the magical change from creepy caterpillar to beautiful butterfly as it emerges from a chrysalis. A variety of caterpillars are shown, and their adaptations for defense, such as sharp spines, hairy bodies, and camouflage, are featured and discussed. More Details

What is found beneath the leaves on the forest floor? Out of sight there are centipedes, millipedes, spiders, and beetles. A whole community exists in this environment, stealthy predators and cunning prey, all perfectly adapted to this ecological niche. More Details

Crickets are viewed as they find food and defend their territory. The way these insects communicate is also discussed. Mole crickets are then shown in more detail. More Details

Damselflies are territorial, carnivorous predators, as shown by the red-eyed damselflies and azure damselflies. Watch these insects as they hunt and patrol their territory to look for mates. More Details

A dragonfly nymph lives in the water for about three years. Watch as this fierce hunter catches a tadpole. After the larva has developed, the adult dragonfly is shown emerging from its hard exoskeleton, patrolling its territory, and finding a mate. More Details

If not for the lowly dung beetle, nature might be a lot less clean. Dung beetles speed up the process of decomposition by using manure as food for their developing larvae. More Details

Flies and cicada are featured in this program. Baby flies struggle to hatch from their cocoons and different flies are shown eating pollen and nectar. One unfortunate fly is caught in a spider's web. Cicada larvae live underground for several years. Once this insect emerges, it has no defense from predators except excellent camouflage. More Details

Students may think that all spiders act as the garden spider does, spinning an elegant web and patiently waiting for the prey to become entangled. The unique crab spider is an example of a spider that uses camouflage to its advantage. More Details

Green bush crickets and locusts are similar in appearance. Each insect is shown in detail so the viewer can note the subtle physical differences in antenna and legs. More Details

Two species of ground-dwelling wasps are explored, the burrowing wasp and the Ammophila or digger wasp. Unlike some other wasps, these solitary insects do not live in communal hives. More Details

Water striders, stick insects, and whirligigs are three insects that have developed unique adaptations for life in and on the water. More Details

This program reveals some interesting facts about these common insects. Many kinds of ladybird beetles (ladybugs) and fire bugs are shown for the ways they differ in size, shape, and color. More Details

Mason wasps are solitary insects, unlike other wasps and bees that are social insects. More Details

Unlike some wasps, paper wasps are social insects that live in a colony. A female wasp, called a foundress, starts her own colony by first building a nest. More Details

These two insects have similar life cycles from caterpillar to butterfly. More Details

One of the fiercest hunters in the insect world is the praying mantis. This insect has a unique adaptation for hiding in its environment and catching prey. More Details

Beetles make up one of the largest sub-groups of insects, and there are many examples of different beetles in this program. Some beetles, like carabid and tiger beetles, can walk easily through vegetation, while the rose chafer struggles. More Details

The sand wasp, also called the Bembex wasp, is a dedicated parent, caring for her egg by building a nest and bringing food back for the hungry larva. Spider wasps care for their young in a similar fashion, sometimes using old sand wasp holes as nests. These wasps hunt spiders to feed to their larvae. More Details

Scorpions and stag beetles have each developed unique physical characteristics suited for aggression and defense. Scorpions have powerful claws and a dangerous tail, and the stag beetle has large mandibles or jaws. More Details

These two species of spider both exhibit differing behaviors when capturing prey and raising their young. The trap-door spider hunts by hiding in its hole and surprising the prey. The Agelena spider hunts by using a web, but this spider is not at all aggressive when the cricket caught in her web is stolen by scavenging wasps. More Details

This program introduces the members of the order Hymenoptera, which have a characteristic slim shape and two pairs of jointed, membranous wings. More Details

Live-action footage introduces several species of bony flatfish, including turbot, brill, sole, and plaice. These side-swimmers are shown camouflaging themselves on the ocean floor. More Details

Live-action footage highlights the distinguishing characteristic of heteropterans, rigid forewings covering tiny back wings and a piercing tool used for feeding. More Details

Live-action footage captures a butterfly chrysalis warding off its enemies and highlights the scaly wings that are characteristic of all Lepidopterans. More Details

Live-action film footage introduces the characteristics of crustaceans, with a focus on decapods, ten-legged crustaceans such as crabs and shrimps. More Details

Live-action film footage reveals the characteristics of crickets and other orthopterans. More Details

Starting with members of the deer family and their characteristics, this program explains that ruminants are two-toed mammals that regurgitate their food from one of their stomach compartments for further chewing. More Details

Live-action footage highlights the annelid features of earthworms, such as a soft, segmented body with a defined head and anus, muscles for locomotion, and thick skin full of blood vessels that secrete a viscous liquid. More Details

Beginning with the common housefly, this program reviews the characteristics of dipterans: two sets of wings, halteres, and proboscises. More Details

Amphibians are introduced by comparing the habits and physical characteristics of frogs, tritons (newts), toads, and salamanders. More Details

Close-up footage shows aphids providing food for ants, who are then eaten by ladybugs. Typical coleopteran features are demonstrated by the ladybug’s two membranous folding wings, protected by two rigid wing covers. More Details

Live-action footage introduces characteristics of rodents such as mice, voles, muskrats, and gerbils, highlighting the single pair of upper and lower incisors, which distinguish them from non-rodents such as hedgehogs, rabbits, and bats. More Details

Live-action footage introduces typical bivalve mollusks including mussels, oysters, clams, cockles, fresh water mussels, and pearl oysters. There are over 12,000 species in the world, each distinguished by a shell with two halves (valves) and siphons through which the animal filters its food. More Details

Beginning with the common barn owl, birds of prey, from eagles and kites to vultures and buzzards, are introduced. More Details

Paramecia are examples of the ciliate phylum, unicellular protists that are found in all environments. Live-action photography captures the various ways these organisms move, reproduce, and feed. More Details

Beginning with the common sea anemone, this program expands students’ understanding of cnidarians to include a variety of simple organisms such as jellyfish and coral, which possess stinging tentacles and exhibit complex behaviors despite their simple body structures. More Details

Live-action footage of the brown garden snail highlights the characteristics that make this animal a gastropod mollusk. More Details

Close-up videography of the rat snake highlights its excellent vision, its sense of smell, its hunting ability, and its method of swallowing a victim whole. More Details

Comparisons between spiders, daddy-long-legs, and acarids stress that spiders are not the only members of the arachnid group. More Details

Live-action footage highlights the characteristics of echinoderms, or "animals with spiny skins," whose 6,000 species include starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. More Details

A spectacular, award-winning portrayal of the negative and positive effects humans have had on the aquifers, springs, streams, rivers, wetlands, and oceans that comprise over 2/3 of our planet. Each program is a case study of these water ecosystems in Florida, showing scientific and social processes that apply to water ecologies in all states and regions of the U.S. and beyond. More Details

This series, produced by the award-winning company that made the IMAX feature Deep Sea, uses stunning underwater footage to show the diverse world of the ocean. More Details

This series explores the characteristics of body structure, locomotion, mating, habitat adaptation, and other features that cause scientists to classify animals in biological groups. More Details

Cattle were among the earliest animals domesticated by humans due to their lack of flight response and to their herding behavior. Their ruminant stomach biology, which allowed them to eat almost anything and convert it into the food, milk, clothing, and fertilizer that humans need, also made them essential to the rise of civilization. More Details

Death Valley is the largest National Park and the most extreme desert biome in the lower 48 states. Its hot, dry landscape and climate force plants and animals into extreme adaptations for survival. Some animals such as kangaroo rats recycle their own moisture, while the jackrabbit has developed huge ears that wick away heat. More Details

New scientific evidence suggests that some wolves evolved into dogs by domesticating themselves, and not by humans taming them. This program features stunning evidence that dogs have travelled, and been buried, with humans since prehistory—adapting to every climate and evolving into many subspecies or types of the same dog species (Canis lupus familiaris). More Details

Winner of the Peabody Award, this fascinating program explores one of nature’s most baffling ecological mysteries: Why have millions of honeybees recently disappeared? While not as publicized as climate change, the effects of this crisis on human life could be felt sooner and more severely, with billions of dollars of crops at risk and our most healthful & colorful food supply threatened. More Details

Underwater cameraman Bob Cranston captures mesmerizing footage of one of the most ancient animal classifications on earth: Cephalopods, marine mollusks related to snails and clams. Their complex behaviors, astonishing body adaptations and, especially, their compelling eyes, could be from an alien science fiction world. More Details

Most people think of venom as something to be avoided at all costs since some animals use it to kill other animals or humans. But modern researchers now use scientific methods to study animal toxins, and they have discovered that the thousands of venom types on planet earth may help cure or control many human ailments, from chronic pain to life-threatening bleeding to cancer and Parkinson’s disease. More Details

The Grizzly Bear, America’s largest, most spectacular predator, was on the brink of extinction in Yellowstone National Park until the 1975 Endangered Species Act made its recovery the biggest success story in conservation history. More Details

The Druid clan, so-named by scientific researchers, had been one of the largest and most powerful packs ever studied. When their dominant alpha leaders are killed, their reign over Yellowstone National Park’s spectacular Lamar Valley comes to a sudden end. More Details

This Academy Award-nominated documentary explains in detailed the human reproduction process from conception to birth. Revealing microscopic visuals of the internal organs, cells and biological process. More Details

NATURE is television’s longest-running and most acclaimed natural sciences series. These programs will enthrall students with their stunning visuals, dramatic narrations, and engrossing true stories, as well as please educators with their strong instructional and content designs. More Details

Around the globe, unique and fascinating species face extinction from hunting and habitat destruction. George, a Pinta Island tortoise from the Galapagos Islands, is the very last of his kind. Other species were on their way to joining George as the last of their kind -- until help arrived. More Details

Frogs have inhabited planet Earth for more than 250 million years. Today, however, all their remarkable adaptations and survival tactics are failing them. More than a third of all amphibians--most of which are frogs and toads--have already been lost. More Details

Ejecting fire, molten rock, giant boulders and poisonous gases, Kilauea can be a hazard, but it doesn't just leave destruction in its wake. Twists and turns in the lava's flow leave some patches of original ecosystems, called kapukas, undisturbed. These oases of life provide a haven to many rare creatures, but remain in constant danger from the volcano and from invasive species. More Details

The natural world is filled with "moments of impact" -- the split seconds when animals come into contact with one another and the world around them. This program reveals what’s behind these remarkable moments, and cutting edge animations illustrate the animal bioengineering that allows each moment to take place. More Details

Filmmaker Allison Argo tells the fascinating story of nature's amazing ability to create fragile connections among the most unexpected creatures. Each year, the red knot, a small shorebird that instinctively times its migration to coincide with the annual spawning of the horseshoe crab. More Details