Is the TV show Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

Nature's Indestructible Creatures (2012), a documentary series in which Professor Richard Fortey of the Natural History Museum follows the planet’s toughest “old-timers” — the species that have clung on through mass extinction events when almost everything else dropped like flies. Across global landscapes and deep time, the series asks what makes a survivor: the traits, habits and lucky breaks that let a lineage hang on by a thread and persist far beyond the ordinary life expectancy of most species. In this article we cover the show’s themes and travel through its episodes, and we also explain where to stream it today — including whether it’s on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+ in your region (availability varies by country). No major awards are listed for the series, but its combination of paleontology, fieldwork and long-view storytelling makes it essential viewing for anyone fascinated by extinction, resilience and the deep history of life.

Synopsis

On a world where roughly 99% of species have disappeared and life has been driven to the edge time and again, a tiny number of lineages have persisted for millions of years. This series follows those ancient survivors as Richard Fortey of the Natural History Museum investigates what lets a few species endure when most are wiped out. Traveling around the globe, he encounters plants and animals whose deep-time biographies reveal strategies—resilience, unusual life histories, ecological specialists or serendipitous luck—that keep them going far beyond the expected lifespan of their peers. The programme probes what it really takes to survive a mass extinction and what these biological holdouts can teach us about life’s persistence in a changing world.

Release date

2012

Seasons / Episodes

1s / 3ep

Total duration

3h 0min

Rating

Country

Royaume-Uni

Genre(s)

Documentaire

Cast

Richard Fortey