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Series 1: 2. The Ostrich
How did the ostrich come to lay the biggest egg on earth? Chris Packham explores the way reproduction has shaped life on earth and the surprising evolutionary origins of sex, eggs and birds. It's a four-billion-year journey contained within a shell.
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Series 1: 2. The Ostrich
How did the ostrich come to lay the biggest egg on earth? Chris Packham explores the way reproduction has shaped life on earth and the surprising evolutionary origins of sex, eg ...
20-07-2026
BBC 2
Evolution
Series 1: 1. The Elephant
Chris Packham embarks on an extraordinary journey through deep time to uncover how a creature as vast, complex and charismatic as the elephant came to be. From a tiny cell over ...
13-07-2026
BBC 2
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Evolution
Series 1: 1. The Elephant
Chris Packham embarks on an extraordinary journey through deep time to uncover how a creature as vast, complex and charismatic as the elephant came to be. From a tiny cell over ...
13-07-2026
BBC 2
Evolution
Series 1: 2. The Ostrich
How did the ostrich come to lay the biggest egg on earth? Chris Packham explores the way reproduction has shaped life on earth and the surprising evolutionary origins of sex, eg ...
20-07-2026
BBC 2