The BEST episodes of The Nature of Things season 54
Every episode of The Nature of Things season 54, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Nature of Things season 54!
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 - Mystery of the Monsoon
Season 54 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/29/2015
A look at the vast season weather system that permeates and unifies India, shaping the conditions of existence for its billion-plus inhabitants.
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#2 - The Antibiotic Hunters
Season 54 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2015
Increasing resistance to antibiotics has been called “the most pressing global health problem of our time”. A new documentary travels to an ocean reef, a rainforest canopy, a frigid cave and even the mouth of a giant lizard – all in the urgent search for new antibiotics.
#3 - SongbirdSOS
Season 54 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2015
'It seems inconceivable that we have lost almost half the songbirds that filled our skies only 40 years ago. SongbirdSOS takes a journey with the birds to discover why this is happening and what we can do about it.
#4 - Spirit Bear Family
Season 54 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/2015
Canada’s top nature documentarians spend a season with the fabled Spirit Bear of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest, capturing a mother spirit bear and her cubs.
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#5 - The Kung Fu Meerkats
Season 54 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/5/2015
A close-up look at a family of meerkats faced with surviving some of Africa's toughest drought conditions in the Kalahari desert.
#6 - Gorilla Doctors
Season 54 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2014
A team of veterinarians provide extreme medical care to save the wild mountain gorillas of Africa from extinction.
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#7 - The Great Human Odyssey: Journey’s End
Season 54 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/2015
Early humans eventually colonized Australia, the South Pacific, and the Americas. But how did our ancestors master the oceans? Learn how new discoveries in ancient DNA research are changing our understanding of the earliest sea voyages, from Easter Island to the Bering Strait.
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#8 - Jellyfish Rule!
Season 54 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/2/2015
No brains, no backbone, no problem! 600 million years ago jellyfish ruled the oceans. Now these mysterious and magnificent creatures may be taking over the oceans once again. Only this time, they’re doing it with our help.
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#9 - The Great Human Odyssey: The Adaptable Ape
Season 54 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2015
How did we become our planet’s only global species, at home in every environment on Earth. Learn how our ancestors found a way through the deserts and out of Africa. Explore the meeting of Neanderthals and humans. And discover how we survived the Ice Age.
#10 - Dreams of the Future
Season 54 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/2014
Dr. Jennifer Gardy explores current scientific research that will impact us all in the future looking at everything from 3D printing body parts to driverless car and tree cloning.
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#11 - The Lion in Your Living Room
Season 54 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/15/2015
Despite that cats are the most-popular pet in the world, very little is known about them.
#12 - Stonehenge Uncovered
Season 54 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2014
The biggest archaeological survey ever conducted of the Stonehenge landscape finds new evidence of a lost civilization.
#13 - The Secret Life of Pigeons
Season 54 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/2014
A look at the often misunderstood pigeon, big city birds maligned with a low rent reputation of their intelligence.
#14 - Two of a Kind
Season 54 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/2014
Director Leora Eisen asks why her identical twin was diagnosed with leukemia and she wasn't. A look at how twins are solving medical mysteries as researchers examine the differences between them.
#15 - The Great Human Odyssey: Rise of a Species
Season 54 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/2015
Like other kinds of human who once shared our world, Homo sapiens should have died away. Discover how our species faced near extinction in Africa, and then found a place to rebuild. Explore the birth of language and art at archeological excavations scientists are now calling “the cradle of the human mind”.
#16 - Myth or Science 3: You Are What You Eat
Season 54 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/2015
Jennifer Gardy takes an extraordinary scientific journey to put food claims to the test and discover if they’re science fact or science fiction.
#17 - The Cholesterol Question
Season 54 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/2014
If high cholesterol equals heart attacks, why do half of the victims have “normal” levels?
#18 - Decoding Desire
Season 54 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/2014
From preening peacocks to promiscuous primates, what do animals reveal about our own sexual behaviour? Explore how sexual diversity and the experience of pleasure itself may be the key to species survival.
#19 - Chasing Snowflakes
Season 54 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/2014
Scientists are unraveling the delicate mysteries of the snowflake. And what they’re learning is amazing.
#20 - Safe Haven for Chimps
Season 54 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/2015
The touching story of how some very special chimpanzees find sanctuary and a new family when they are retired from a life in the lab.
#21 - Franklin’s Lost Ships
Season 54 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/2015
Last summer, 170 years after it left England, one of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus, was found in the Canadian Arctic. Our cameras were on board to witness this extraordinary underwater