History Channel - Evolve: The Ultimate Story of Survival (2008) 720p HDTV x264 AC3 MVGroup

Innovate or die. Evolve or face extinction. It's a tough, violent, and lethal world out there, and it's been that way since the dawn of time. Roughly 99 percent of all species have become extinct. What enabled that other one percent to survive the cutthroat competition? Their ability to.... EVOLVE.

Part 1: Eyes
Seeing is believing, not to mention evading, eating and surviving! Eyes are one of evolution's most useful and prevalent inventions. Ninety five percent of living species are equipped with eyes and they exist in many different forms.

Part 2: Guts
It doesn't just take willpower to survive. It takes guts. This episode looks at the role guts have played in shaping some of Earth's most successful animals.

Part 3: Jaws
There is perhaps no instrument more important to survival than a strong set of jaws, which let animals kill, butcher, and devour. Get ready to pry open some of the deadliest jaws on the planet as we expose this fierce and ferocious anatomical weapon. Sharp, menacing, and more than an eating apparatus, the jaws of many animals are key to their survival. Go back along the evolutionary line to discover how various jaws developed in the first place.

Part 4: Sex
In the history of life on earth, sex may be the ultimate survival skill, because the bottom line is: reproduce or die.
Sex is a necessity for most species to survive. As evolution continues, are we approaching a time when sex will no longer be a necessity? How is this possible? EVOLVE looks at the history of sex for numerous species. Fish, insects, mammals, amphibians, and everything in between are examined.

Part 5: Skin
This episode looks at how skin has changed and adapted to virtually any challenge it has faced throughout history. Skin is absolutely amazing, far more complex and versatile than we ever give it credit for. It makes up 16 percent of your body weight, is the largest organ in the human body, allows birds to fly and mammals to nurse their young, an provides a lifelong defense against predators and parasites alike.

Part 6: Flight
Scientists examine the fossil record and living birds to try and unlock how some species evolved to have the remarkable trait of flight.

Part 7: Communication
The ability to interact stretches back billions of years and has often been one of the primary factors in a species ability to evolve and survive.

Part 8: Size
Whether dictated by the need for speed, population density, or a host of other factors, the biological world revolves and evolves around size. Life has evolved into a multitude of sizes. Over the course of three billion years, life has taken on many forms, from an .02-micrometer-long bacteria to the 110-foot-long blue whale.

Part 9: Venom
For hundreds of millions of years world's top predators have relied on speed or their size and sheer strength to over power the victims. But venom shifts the balance of power.

Part 10: Shape
Every shape in nature, no matter how bizarre it may appear, evolved as a result of the struggle for survival. Today, animals are shaped in so many different ways and most of them have strange bodies, weird looking. But shape is still vital.

Part 11: Speed
Evolution is a race between predator and prey. Speed, the ability to react and move, can often mean the difference between life and death in the animal kingdom.