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"Told like a thriller, it really lifts the lid on how fraught and messy discoveries can become..." 10 best, most spectacular dinosaur documentaries to watch now
Dinosaur obsessed? Check out our guide of the best dinosaur documentaries out there and learn even more about these remarkable reptiles.
David Attenborough’s ‘big 100th birthday bash’ will be celebrated in a live BBC special – here’s how to watch it
A special event marking David Attenborough’s 100th birthday is coming to the Royal Albert Hall
“The baby must cling on for dear life.” A monkey troop need to leap into a croc-infested river. What happens next is astonishing
In footage captured for the BBC’s Earth’s Tropical Islands, proboscis monkeys must take a huge leap of faith
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“Each seal is swimming for its life.” These seals must cross shark-infested waters to find a meal. Will they make it?
In dramatic footage captured for the BBC’s Planet Earth, seals must risk an encounter with hungry great white sharks
These bees aren’t vegetarian – they’re flesh-eaters and can smell food from half a mile away
Some bees have a taste for flesh, as the National Geographic TV series Secrets of the Bees explores
“Rearing up, each reveals its two-pronged penis.” Meet the creature that fences with an unusual body part
The animal kingdom is full of bizarre mating rituals – and one of the oddest must surely be the Persian carpet flatworm
“One of the most extraordinary moments of my life.” David Attenborough reflects on groundbreaking project in new documentary
Filmed in the 1970s, Attenborough’s Life on Earth helped make television history – now a documentary goes behind-the-scenes
“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
Who is Hannah Stitfall? All you need to know about the BBC Springwatch and Winterwatch presenter
Meet wildlife presenter and photographer Hannah Stitfall
“That’s never going to heal.” A lion suffers a broken leg in Botswana. Will he be able to survive?
In north Botswana, there’s a lion who has faced an extraordinary set of challenges – and conquered them all
“Far more than pollinators.” New TV series shows bees can build structures, solve problems – and even eat meat
Take a ‘bees-eye view’ of this incredible, yet often overlooked, insect with TV series Secrets of the Bees
Filmmakers released a robotic orangutan into the Borneo rainforest. What it captured was astonishing
A robotic orangutan was able to film incredible, human-like behaviour for the BBC TV series Spy in the Wild
“That is mind-blowing!” Deadly 60 is back – everything you need to know about Steve Backshall’s wildlife TV show
Steve Backshall is back for a new series of Deadly 60 – here’s what to expect
David Attenborough turns his attention to Britain’s backyards and the spectacular wildlife found there in new BBC TV series
In an upcoming TV series for the BBC, David Attenborough is looking at the incredible wildlife found across Britain’s gardens
“Complete intoxication.” Lemurs in Madagascar are licking millipedes – and it’s sending them into a “trancelike state”
To protect themselves from malaria-carrying mosquitoes, some lemurs in Madagascar are turning to poisonous insects – with unusual side effects
New David Attenborough and Netflix documentary goes behind the scenes of one of the “most iconic moments in wildlife filmmaking”
Netflix’s A Gorilla Story takes us behind the scenes of a piece of wildlife television history
“As the great whites move in for the kill, the seals do something astonishing.”
Great white sharks may have reputation for being a ruthless apex predator, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be scared away
It may look like a bridge, but this crossing isn’t made of brick or concrete – but it lasts for hundreds of years
Discover the incredible way humans use trees in this remote forest in India
“When an elephant calf is cut off from its herd, the lions charge towards it.” 10 animal behaviours filmed for the first time
To mark 20 years of the BBC TV series Planet Earth, we look at some of the filming firsts it captured – from an elusive Himalayan big cat to a ‘zombie’ fungus
It’s up to 40 miles wide, contains billions of creatures and can take 20 years to form – is this nature’s most destructive swarm?
In astonishing footage from Planet Earth, swarms of desert locusts decimate vegetation
“Hunger drives the lizard to make a second attempt.” Watch brutal BBC footage of an opossum fighting off a huge lizard to save her babies
In footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a monitor lizard tries to steal from an opossum nest
“She’s seen something….” A cheetah mum must distract a prowling big cat away from her cubs. Will her risk pay off?
In footage captured for the latest series of Big Cats 24/7, we watch a tense encounter between a cheetah mum and a leopard under the cover of darkness
“The sight of them writhing around in slippery foam will stay with me for a while.” This mating ritual could be Earth’s weirdest
Female Japanese tree frogs produce foam-like nests to lay eggs in – and things soon turn into a slippery mess
Forget gender wars! These bizarre birds have had equality sorted for some 44 million years - watch them in action
These ground-loving birds mate for life and work together to protect their young
