The biomes
Eight living systems. Each one a self-contained answer to the same question: what does life do when conditions change?
The lungs of the planet. Ten percent of all known life on Earth, packed into one drainage basin.
Where life evolved against the cold. Fat, fur, and patience as survival strategy.
The original arena. Where most of vertebrate evolution played its loudest hand.
Earth's largest habitat. Pressure measured in tons. Almost everything down here glows.
The cities of the ocean. 25% of marine species live here, on 0.1% of the seafloor.
The world's roof. Where animals evolved to breathe air thinner than altitude sickness.
The animals that came before. Bigger, stranger, mostly extinct, occasionally still here.
The one animal that lives in all of them. Soft skin, no claws, conquered the planet.