NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence-in a pool created only minutes before-of a pair of adult spadefoot toads. Toads who had been waiting beneath the sand for a year for this brief and fortuitous moment to procreate the next generation...
Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.