Series

Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures

2012 · 1 season · Documentary

IMDb

6.4

It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life's hold on Earth has been so precarious it seems it hangs on by a thread. This series focuses on the survivors - the old-timers - whose biographies stretch back millions of years and who show how it is possible to survive a mass extinction event which wipes out nearly all of its neighbours. The Natural History Museum's professor Richard Fortey discovers what allows the very few to carry on going - perhaps not for ever, but certainly far beyond the life expectancy of normal species. What makes a survivor when all around drop like flies? Professor Fortey travels across the globe to find the survivors of the most dramatic of these obstacles - the mass extinction events.

Richard Fortey

Himself - Presenter

First aired

January 24, 2012

Last aired

February 7, 2012

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

3

Genres

Documentary

• Season 13 episodes · 2012