Seven Worlds, One Planet begins with the powerful image of the earth's crust breaking apart into seven continents two million years ago.
Acclaimed for nature documentaries like Life and Planet Earth, BBC Earth's latest series showcases a larger variety of plant and animal life than ever before.
The series, which dedicates each episode to the unique geology and wildlife of a different continent, is narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Series producer Scott Alexander, 51, told The Straits Times that viewers can expect "never seen before footage of extraordinary animals, species and behaviours".
Starring in the Asia episode, for example, are the snub-nosed monkeys Attenborough has been looking out for since reading about them in a scientific paper during the 1960s.
The monkeys are visually striking with their bright blue faces and shaggy golden coats, and spend a lot of their time walking upright as humans do. In the high and remote mountain ranges of central China, where temperatures regularly dip well below 0 deg C, they also cuddle one another to keep warm.
"Our challenge was to find those stories people haven't seen before," said Mr Alexander, who has 20 years of experience in the industry. "And we know that even the places we've been to previously can still surprise us."
"For example, we show two particular elephants that have learnt to stand on their back feet and balance, so they can reach higher up into trees and get those last bits of fruit other elephants can't. That's very helpful in times of drought and it's astonishing to see."
Their team also maximised the usage of drones when filming Seven Worlds, One Planet.
"Some behaviours you don't really understand until you get to see them from the air, like polar bears hunting beluga whales," Mr Alexander added.
While the series celebrates the stunning variety of wildlife on earth, it does not shy away from depicting the grim effects of climate change on animals all over the world.
At least one sequence in each episode highlights the loss of biodiversity, from severe storms in Antarctica sweeping baby albatrosses from the safety of their nests, to the last two northern white rhinoceros remaining in Africa.
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