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Season 1

  • S01E01 A Museum in a Modern World

    • March 18, 2010
    • BBC Two

    Jimmy Doherty gets to grips with Darwin's finches and Dippy the Diplodocus.

  • S01E02 Digging up the Past

    • March 25, 2010
    • BBC Two

    Jimmy Doherty and the team find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of a T Rex, and what scientists are learning from a human skull over a hundred thousand years old.

  • S01E03 All Creatures Great and Small

    • April 1, 2010
    • BBC Two

    Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to see work taking place on animals. They explore projects from the construction of a life-sized whale to a life-saving trip to Uganda. The true image of a dodo is revealed, and a nine-foot sturgeon turns up with the strangest tale of any object in the museum.

  • S01E04 Discovery

    • April 8, 2010
    • BBC Two

    Jimmy Doherty goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to discover the lengths people go to to add new and rarely studied species to the collection. A colossal squid turns up at the museum, a team of scientists push through unexplored jungle in Panama and a pioneering project finds a new species at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Sweden.

  • S01E05 The Power of Insects

    • April 15, 2010
    • BBC Two

    The team explore the great butterfly collection, meet the most stung man in the museum and discover how the museum is using insects to help at murder scenes.

  • S01E06 A Collection for the Future

    • April 22, 2010
    • BBC Two

    Beetles inspire new technologies, the latest scanner allows scientists to take a trip inside a shark, and ancient specimens are called into the battle to help prevent extinction.