The BEST episodes of The Nature of Things season 59
Every episode of The Nature of Things season 59, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Nature of Things season 59!
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.
#1 - Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness
Season 59 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2019
Canada's prairies are among the world's most endangered, least protected ecosystems, but there are people working to keep them wild.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - She Walks with Apes
Season 59 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2019
The epic story of three legendary women who fought to save the great apes — and inspired a generation.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Pass the Salt
Season 59 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/2020
In 1977, health experts declared a war on sodium. We sift through a mountain of salt science for a grain of truth.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - A Bee's Diary
Season 59 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/2020
7 weeks, 8,000km, countless adventures...and 1 gram of honey. The life of a single bee, through her own eyes.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Reef Rescue
Season 59 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/6/2020
Scientists are racing against time to save the world’s coral reefs before they’re lost forever.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - First Animals
Season 59 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2019
For most of its existence, planet Earth has been a brutal, inhospitable, toxic nightmare, until a half billion years ago when – KABOOM! – life suddenly appeared. First Animals, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, takes you back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us more about our own origins. Renowned evolutionary biologist Maydianne Andrade is our guide, showing us how complex – and dangerous – life among the first animals really was. “The information embedded in this rock is evolution’s raw data,” says Andrade. “We see how the first guts digested food, how the first eyes processed images, how the first hunters tracked down their prey. “These are the very early building blocks of animal evolution.” High up a mountainside in a British Columbia fossil bed, Andrade joins a team from the Royal Ontario Museum, led by paleontologist Jean-Bernard Caron. They are literally exposing hundreds of new fossils every day.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Seals of Sable
Season 59 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2019
On the remote shores of Sable Island, N.S., we meet the world’s largest breeding colony of grey seals and the people who study them.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Living Colour
Season 59 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2019
A captivating exploration of the science of colour, including a look at people and animals who experience it in fascinating ways.
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#9 - Takaya: Lone Wolf
Season 59 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2019
The remarkable story of a solitary wolf living against the odds and his close bond with renowned wildlife photographer Cheryl Alexander.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Aging Well Suzuki Style
Season 59 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/28/2020
David Suzuki takes us on a journey to learn how to live better and age well.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - BE AFRAID: The Science of Fear
Season 59 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2019
There's still so much we don't know about fear. Could it be good for you? What would life be like without it?
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Accidental Wilderness: The Leslie Street Spit
Season 59 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/2020
One of the world's most incredible urban wildernesses. It offers a fascinatingly vivid account of the push-pull relationship at play in humankind's transformation of natural environments...and a reminder of nature's power when left to it's own devices.
#13 - Kingdom of the Tide
Season 59 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/7/2020
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki takes us on a personal and intimate journey to discover the spectacular and surprising world of the intertidal zone, and reveal how it holds the key to the health of the world’s oceans and our own survival.
#14 - Under Thin Ice
Season 59 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2019
In the Arctic, life thrives on the ice and under it. But for how long? Extreme diver Jill Heinerth investigates.
#15 - Dinosaur Cold Case
Season 59 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/10/2020
The accidental discovery in Alberta of one of the best-preserved dinosaurs ever opens a prehistoric cold case to uncover the secrets of its mysterious death.
#16 - Listening to Orcas
Season 59 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/2020
Scientists uncover the complex and emotional lives of the ocean’s most intelligent predators.
#17 - Nature's Cleanup Crew
Season 59 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/2020
An introduction to the unsung animal heroes who clean up messes in the urban spaces they share with humans.