24 Hours on Earth

All Episodes 2014

  • 2018-01-10T02:00:00Zs at 2018-01-10T02:00:00Z on BBC America
  • 2014-09-01T01:00:00Z
  • 42m
  • 1h 26m (2 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
In this epic spectacular, the BBC Natural History Unit use a brand new approach to delve deep into the natural world and explore its most critical dimension - time. "24 Hours on Earth" travels moment by moment through a virtual day and celebrates the most extraordinary and spectacular examples of how animals and plants are adapted to exploit the 24-hour cycle. The two-part series features returnable characters that show the huge highs and desperate lows they face across a single day in the wild. It celebrates the most mind-blowing adaptations that life uses to exploit tiny windows of time.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2014-09-01T01:00:00Z

1x01 Day

Series Premiere

1x01 Day

  • 2014-09-01T01:00:00Z43m

This fascinating series travels through a virtual day, from dawn to dusk to night, showing how different animals have adapted to make the most out of every moment. The changing position of the sun affects animal and plant behaviour; lemurs need morning heat; a chameleon survives on solar power.

Season Finale

2014-09-01T01:00:00Z

1x02 Night

Season Finale

1x02 Night

  • 2014-09-01T01:00:00Z43m

An exploration of how the sun's power still rules the night time world, as its light, reflected in the moon, is a ghost sun for tiny hunting tarsiers and an aphrodisiac for Australian corals.

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