Life & nature

Premieres 12 NovThe Enslaved 12-Year-Old Who Unlocked Vanilla1841 · Sainte-Suzanne, RéunionPremieres 23 NovThe Penguins' UV Love Spots They Might Not See2015–2023 · Kerguelen Islands, Southern OceanComing soonThey Blew Up a Whale. It Went Badly.12 November 1970 · Florence, Oregon

Coming up

• 500-Year-Old Inca Freeze-Dried Potatoes, Still Intact c. 1500 (published 2026) · Tambo Viejo, Acarí Valley, Peru
• 60 Birds in Central Park, 200 Million Starlings 1890 · New York City, USA
• A 2,000-Year-Old Seed From Masada Grew Into a Tree 2005–2021 · Kibbutz Ketura, Israel (seeds from Masada and Qumran)
• A Dung Fight Uncovered the Oldest Human Footprints 1976 · Laetoli, Tanzania
• A Honeymoon Stroll Found a Living Fossil Sept 1997 – Sept 1998 · Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
• A Prize-Winning Garden Plant Conquered Britain 1840s–1850 · Leiden, Utrecht and Kew; spread across the UK
• A Toe Bone Revealed a New Human Species 2007 / April 2019 · Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines
• A Yellowstone Hot Spring Gave Us PCR 1966–1983 · Mushroom Spring, Yellowstone, and Cetus, California
• A Zoo Visitor Felt Elephants Talking Below Hearing May 1984 · Washington Park Zoo, Portland, Oregon
• Audubon Invented Fish to Prank a Rival 1818 · Henderson, Kentucky
• Bacteria Found Eating Bottles in a Japanese Dump 2016 · a PET bottle recycling site, Sakai, Japan
• Barbara McClintock's Jumping Genes Waited 30 Years 1944–1983 · Cold Spring Harbor, New York