Wonders of Life
Size Matters
Season 1 Episode 4 of 5
Professor Brian Cox travels around Australia to explore how the size of a creature is connected to the forces acting on its environment. From the safety of a steel cage, he faces a great white shark and explains how the streamlined contours of this massive predator have been shaped by the physics of water. In Queensland's rainforests, he explains how insects and other smaller creatures can appear to defy gravity, using electrostatic force to scale vertical windows
Wonders of Life airs on BBC Two HD at 4:15 PM, Thursday 14 November. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
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Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Brian Cox
Presenter
James Van der Pool
Series Producer
Paul Olding
Director