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Great Northern Tilefish : The Great Dying of 1882
Season 1 Episode 29
The Great Northern Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) is a big, beautiful fish from the western Atlantic. It's one of those rare animals that i…
6 years, 9 months ago
Bone-House Wasp : A Halloween Ossuary
Season 1 Episode 28
The Bone-House Wasp (Deuteragenia ossarium) is recently discovered species of spider wasp that has some remarkable habits. So, three questions. What …
6 years, 10 months ago
Ruppell's Vulture : The Seven Mile High Club
Season 1 Episode 27
Ruppell's Vulture (Gyps rueppelli) is one of the biggest vultures in the world, but it's real claim to fame is more spectacular. It is the highest fl…
6 years, 10 months ago
Bootlace Worm : Maximum Worm
Season 1 Episode 26
The world record for longest animal is held by the bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus), a Nemertean or ribbon worm from the North Sea. In fact, it's h…
6 years, 11 months ago
Exploding Ant : Pop Goes The Ant
Season 1 Episode 25
Colobopsis explodens is one of a group of ants known as exploding ants. Highly social insects that have developed an extraordinary approach to the de…
7 years ago
Cuvier's Beaked Whale : Maximum Dive
Season 1 Episode 24
Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is a member of a rarely seen, little known and little studied group of whales – the beaked whales – that …
7 years, 1 month ago
Bone-Eating Worm : Whalefall
Season 1 Episode 23
The weirdest animals yet to appear on The Wild Episode: Osedax, a whole genus of bone-eating worms that for tens of millions of years have been colon…
7 years, 2 months ago
Russian Tortoise : The Big Sleep
Season 1 Episode 22
Come and meet the tortoise that went to the moon! The Russian Tortoise (Testudo or Agrionemys horsfieldii) was the first vertebrate animal to fly aro…
7 years, 3 months ago
Antarctic Midge : Antarctica's Biggest Pedestrian
Season 1 Episode 21
What is the biggest terrestrial animal native to Antarctica? It's the Antarctic Midge (Belgica antarctica), a wingless fly that at no more than a qua…
7 years, 3 months ago
Gelada : The Monkey on the Mountain
Season 1 Episode 20
The gelada (Theropithecus gelada) is the only living member of the Theropithecus genus. It's the only grass-eating monkey on Earth. It's probably the…
7 years, 5 months ago