Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures

Nick heads to cowboy country, southeast Arizona, in search of the horned lizard – a reptile with an amazing trick up its spiny sleeve.

A blood -sucking vampire lives in the waters of the Amazon, one with a macabre reputation. The candiru is a tiny catfish that has been known to swim up the human urethra.

Nick goes looking for the world’s smallest armadillo, it lives in the sandy dunes of Western Argentina, and is very rarely seen even by those who live there.

Nick takes on his biggest frogging challenge yet – a giant frog that lives underwater in one of the highest lakes in the world – Lake Titicaca. This is Nick’s most dangerous...

Gharial are about the most endangered, species of crocodile on earth. Nick sets out to discover how their body design works for them, and what humans are doing to save the...

A monster lurks just off the holiday beaches of Britain’s west coast. The basking shark is the second biggest fish in the sea, and the UK is one of the best places to see them.

In the boreal forest of Manitoba, Canada, Nick goes trapping for the fastest nose in natural history – the Star-nosed Mole.