Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures

In the warm waters of South Australia Nick meets a marine animal with a jewel-like body that resembles a brilliant plastic toy rather than a fish; the Leafy Sea Dragon.

Nick Baker is on a road trip along Mexico’s Highway Number 1 running the length of the weird and wonderful Baja peninsula. His aim- to track down Bipes biporus, aka the...

Mexico City might seem an unlikely place to find one of nature’s most extraordinary amphibians; the Axolotl, an almost magical salamander that Nick Baker has kept in captivity...

The horseshoe crab has been around for nearly half a billion years, making it one of the oldest creatures on the planet. Nick wants to find out what the living fossil has been...

Nick travels to Australia’s Red Centre on the trail of one of the weirdest desert diggers, the Marsupial Mole. To Nick’s astonishment he discovers that what is known about...

Nick travels to the depths of the Bornean jungle to find the only poisonous primate in the world; the Slow Loris. It looks like a cuddly toy, but it carries a poison that can...

Luck is on Nick’s side as he goes in search of the awkward middle child of anteaters, the tamandua. Borrowing characteristics from its brothers, the tamandua appears to have...

Nicks heads to a group of desert islands in Panama where strange things have been happening to the animals. He hangs out with a pygmy sloth and discovers a species of frog...