Episode · Antarctica · 14 September 2026
The only bird that breeds through the Antarctic winter: the male fasts for about four months with the egg on his feet, at temperatures down to minus sixty.
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¹ Every 30 to 60 seconds a wave of small steps travels through an emperor penguin huddle, slowly reorganising it.
Zitterbart et al., PLoS ONE, 2011
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Watch on YouTube (opens YouTube in a new tab)Southern Ocean
The only animals with a backbone known to live without haemoglobin: their blood is as clear as water, in a sea that sits below zero.
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Arctic Ocean
The Greenland shark and the radiocarbon in its eye lenses.
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Under an ice sheet up to almost 4,800 metres thick lie more than 600 lakes. This film goes down through the ice at Vostok Station to the lake beneath.
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