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“Apparently, if you go to the toilet in this river, it will swim up the stream of urine right inside you – and launch using two backward-facing spines.”
We always think of the ocean’s dark depths as the habitat housing the most nightmare-inducing and impressive creatures – but rivers can too…
“In dragon society, size is everything.” Watch the dramatic moment two huge, venomous lizards clash over a mate
On the Indonesian island of Komodo, the world’s largest lizard competes in incredible fights to earn mating rights
Hamza Yassin announces new BBC film that was an “absolute dream” to work on
Hamza Yassin’s upcoming BBC film celebrates Kenya’s remarkable birds of prey – and the people working to save them
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“Inside every female, there is a new male in waiting...” This bizarre-looking fish attempts to mate – but there’s one big problem
This female kobudai vanished after refusing a mate. When she resurfaced, everything about her had changed.
“It’s alien in every sense of the word.” In sulphuric caves too deadly for humans, living snot-like slime drips from the ceilings
In a clip from the BBC’s Wonders of the Solar System, Brian Cox visits an ‘alien’ within a cave that’s a death trap for humans
“It slowly disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants and is sliced up.” Ravenous insects devour prey alive in BBC clip
Driver ants attack everything unfortunate enough to wind up in their path – and this unlucky slug is in for a tough day.
“They don’t have the strength – so they’ve turned into a mass killing machine”
In a clip from the BBC’s Evolution, Chris Packham explains how ants have evolved to become efficient hunters
‘How did the elephant become so big?’ New Chris Packham-fronted BBC TV series uncovers the secrets of evolution
All you need to know about Evolution, the new BBC TV series presented by Chris Packham
BBC launches new wildlife video podcast as part of the Watches expansion
Naturewatch will begin this autumn, highlighting the best of British wildlife each week
These baby iguanas must run for their lives – or they’ll be constricted to death by snakes. Will they make it?
Iguana hatchlings are faced with a fierce race straight after hatching in this now-iconic clip from the BBC's Planet Earth II
“No one’s ever seen tigers do this before.” A film crew flew a drone over an island full of big cats – and captured something extraordinary
Think you know everything there is to know about tigers? This new footage from the BBC's Tiger Island has left experts amazed
“A smaller crab will be swallowed whole – a bigger one will be torn apart”
In footage captured for the BBC’s Blue Planet II, shore crabs face waters riddled with deadly predators
“I’ve never met a good-tempered walrus, they’re always grumpy!” Wildlife filmmaker Doug Allan on filming in the Arctic and working with Attenborough
In an interview originally published in October 2019, BBC filmmaker Doug Allan reflects on an extraordinary encounter with a narwhal and his funniest shoot
"To see her standing there, focused entirely on finding her cub – who was in serious danger – was one of the most affecting things I've ever seen."
Tiger Island is an epic new
two-part series about to air on
BBC One. Presenter Dan O’Neill
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An extensive list of best nature documentaries to watch, from the iconic Life on Earth to new releases
Find the best nature documentaries of all time to stream from the comfort of home with our ultimate TV guide. Plus, where to buy the accompanying books and DVDs.
“Enveloped by the mouth and suffocated inside, 6,000 teeth scraping, rasping and boring into its flesh…”
Hidden away in New Zealand’s forests is a giant snail that eats earthworms like spaghetti.
“Over the next 6 months, it will prey on the defenceless larvae until it’s 100 times its original size.” This undercover carnivore may look harmless – but don’t be fooled
In rare footage captured for the BBC’s Wild Isles, the carnivorous caterpillar uses master trickery to survive.
“The cordyceps erupts from the ant’s head.” Deadly parasitic fungus infiltrates an ant’s body and mind in this BBC Planet Earth clip
In footage captured for BBC’s Planet Earth, an ant is infected by deadly zombie fungus.
A hippo is dying of thirst in Botswana. But a pride of lions guards the water hole
In footage for the BBC TV series Natural World, David Attenborough narrates an encounter between a pride of lions and a lone hippo
“Never-before-seen animal behaviour, new locations, new science.” Watch first clip of David Attenborough narrating “blockbuster” BBC series
The third instalment of the David Attenborough-narrated series will air on the BBC this year
“One of the most vibrant and biodiverse places in Northern Ireland.” BBC’s Springwatch is back – with a new live location for 2026
BBC Two's Springwatch will return with a new live location this year – here's everything you need to know
David Attenborough narrates astonishing BBC footage of grizzly bears hunting during the annual salmon run – one of nature’s greatest spectacles
“Piranha can strip a fish to the bone in minutes.” Watch David Attenborough-narrated footage of a brutal feeding frenzy
In a clip from Planet Earth, a shoal of red-bellied piranhas make light work of an injured dorado
“We can’t escape.” How Attenborough’s greatest adventure almost never made it to air
Life on Earth changed wildlife TV programming forever and made a star of its presenter – but the story behind the making of the 13-part epic is just as astonishing
