The Life Story team spent 1900 days filming the series, in 29 countries across six continents. They travelled a total of 1,850,798 miles - the equivalent of circling the globe 78 times. This allowed them to record some incredible footage; flightless barnacle goose chicks leaping down a cliff face from the ledge where they hatched, a housing chain of hermit crabs forming an orderly queue and swapping shells to find a perfect fit, a tiny, drab male pufferfish creating a beautiful submarine "crop circle" in the sand to impress a potential mate. Life takes many fascinating and beautiful forms on planet Earth, and this is the story of how one intrepid team managed to document so much of it.

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2014. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 21, 2019.