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First broadcast: Monday 29 April 2013, 2.50AM on Channel 4
The giant squid was long thought to be the stuff of legend. It was only in the late 19th century that it was first officially recorded by scientists, after one leviathan squid washed up on a beach in New Zealand.
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First broadcast: Monday 23 April 2012, 8PM on Channel 4
The team take on their hardest challenge so far, to dissect an entire ecosystem - the jungle. Deep in the rainforest of Borneo they erect a high-tech dissection laboratory to investigate giant bugs and titan trees, and to reveal why the jungle is home to the most diverse collection of living things on our planet.
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First broadcast: Monday 16 April 2012, 8PM on Channel 4
The Australian Outback is home to millions of kangaroos but, sadly, every year thousands are fatally injured in traffic accidents. Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg take the opportunity to delve inside these bizarre animals.
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First broadcast: Monday 09 April 2012, 8PM on Channel 4
So many hippos congregate to feed in Zambia's Luangwa Valley that they threaten the survival of other species in the park, so the authorities cull around 200 of them every year.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 10 January 2012, 9PM on Channel 4
Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg travel to South Africa to dissect the first primate on Inside Nature's Giants: a huge alpha male baboon that led a band of baboons on a rampage through a Cape Town suburb until the authorities were forced to euthanise him as he grew increasingly violent.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 20 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
The thoroughbred racehorse is one of the greatest athletes on the planet, galloping with incredible speed and stamina for such a large animal. It is the result of unnatural selection, and exists on a knife edge between glory and catastrophic failure.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 13 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
The team travel to Florida to dissect the ocean's largest reptile - the leatherback turtle. They uncover the evolutionary mystery of how turtles developed shells to protect themselves from some of the sharpest-toothed predators on the planet.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 06 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
The Bafta-winning series returns to Australia on the trail of a bird that's been described as a living dinosaur. The cassowary hides in Queensland's tropical rainforests.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 30 August 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
The team head deep into the Australian outback to explore the ultimate desert survivor.
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First broadcast: Sunday 07 August 2011, 9PM on Channel 4
The BAFTA-winning team battle through the night against a rising tide to explore the mysteries of the largest predator on Earth: the sperm whale.
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First broadcast: Thursday 30 June 2011, 9PM on Channel 4
The team join Inuit hunters and scientists studying polar bears off the coast of Greenland. Polar bears have become a symbol of climate change as their habitat is threatened. And, at the top of the food chain, they are especially vulnerable to physiological side effects from man-made pollutants.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 22 June 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
The experts dissect a lion and a tiger, and travel to South Africa to see lions in the wild.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 15 June 2010, 9PM on Channel 4
The experts venture into the swamps of the Florida Everglades, where giant Burmese pythons are thriving.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 08 June 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
The experts travel to South Africa to dissect a 900kg, 15-foot-long great white shark.
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First broadcast: Monday 20 July 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans acts as guide as a team of experts investigate the giraffe.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 July 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans joins experts in anatomy, evolution and behaviour in a bid to get under the skin of the crocodile.
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First broadcast: Monday 06 July 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
In this episode experts dissect a 65-foot, 60-ton fin whale - second only in size to its 'cousin' the blue whale - that has died after being stranded off the coast of Ireland. It's a race against time as whale anatomist Joy Reidenberg flies in from New York before the animal's decomposition causes it to explode on the beach.
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First broadcast: Monday 29 June 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
This programme looks at how evolution has overcome the challenges of being as big as an elephant.
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