A land where the unexpected unfolds. In the Sonoran Desert, cameras capture, for the first time, a pygmy owl mother guiding her chicks from their nest during daylight hours. In the Sea of Cortez, orcas use complex team strategies to hunt dolphins, a rare cooperative behavior among these apex predators. On San Pedro Martir island, new wide-angle lens techniques reveal the intimate drama of blue-footed boobies, as a male fights to keep the attention of his wandering mate.

Orchid bees are shown in extraordinary detail, as they gather up to 40 different scents, filmed with specialist macro lenses to unveil this intricate process. In the Yucatan, explorers find new lifeforms like cave brittle stars, deep within flooded caves called cenotes that remain less explored than the moon. Finally, millions of monarch butterflies begin their epic journey across the continent, creating a spectacle of color and movement on a massive scale. With Tom Hanks.