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Evolution Episodes
Series 1: 5. The Horse
How did the horse become so fast? Chris Packham sets out on a slithering, swimming, sprinting odyssey that explores the evolutionary beginnings of animal movement and how it rea ...
19-08-2026
BBC 2
Series 1: 4. The Dolphin
How did the dolphin get so smart? Chris Packham dives into one of the biggest questions in nature - how intelligence itself evolved and how it arose in the extraordinary mind of ...
13-08-2026
BBC 2
Series 1: 3. The Bat
How did the bat get so hungry? Chris Packham sets out to answer a deceptively simple question: how the drive to find food shaped life on earth and gave rise to one of nature&rsq ...
06-08-2026
BBC 2
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 ...
30-07-2026
BBC 2
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 ...
23-07-2026
BBC 2