Land Invaders • 2008 • episode "S1E2" • Life in Cold Blood

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David Attenborough reveals the bizarre adaptations which have helped amphibians break their ties with water as he meets marsupial frogs, show-off newts and giant salamanders.

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Life in Cold Blood • 2008 • 4 episodes •

Land Invaders

David Attenborough reveals the bizarre adaptations which have helped amphibians break their ties with water as he meets marsupial frogs, show-off newts and giant salamanders.

2008 • Nature

Dragons of the Dry

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2008 • Nature

Sophisticated Serpents

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Snakes have developed the ultimate economy of design and are the most elegant and iconic of hunters. Among the incredible species seen here are blind tiger snakes that hunt using their sense of smell, magnificent African spitting cobras and a bizarre turtle-headed sea-snake hunting on a coral reef. And, for the first time ever, cameras capture a snake ambush in the wild and the beautiful spectacle of yellow anacondas giving birth underwater.

2008 • Nature

Armoured Giants

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2008 • Nature

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