Steve Backshall tracks down 60 of the world's deadliest animals. In Hoedspruit, South Africa, Steve encounters an angry hippo and a venomous scorpion. [S]
Steve Backshall finds out if crocodiles deserve their reputation, and tracks down one of Africa's most elusive predators, the awesome hunting dog.
In South Africa, Steve Backshall braves rough seas to get close to a great white shark, and goes out scavenging with the world's most fearless animal.
Wildlife expert Steve Backshall and his crew head for the Australian continent as he continues his Deadly 60 mission, meeting snakes, pelicans and dolphins. [S]
Wildlife guru Steve Backshall is in Australia. Out in the forest, Steve has to have his wits about him as he comes face-to-face with a huge lace monitor lizard. [S]
The action moves to the south coast of Australia as naturalist Steve Backshall and the Deadly 60 team take the plunge in the waters of the Pacific. Featured Animals: Yellowfin Tuna, Platypus, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Trapdoor Spider, Jack Jumper Ant, Australian Giant Cuttlefish.
The action moves to Northern Australia as naturalist Steve Backshall meets one of the planet's ultimate killers, the saltwater crocodile. [S]
Steve Backshall's quest to meet the planet's deadliest animals takes him to India, on the trail of the saw-scaled viper, said to be the deadliest snake on earth.
Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall is in India in search of tigers, and also comes face to face with another animal that is on the endangered list, the gharial crocodile. [S]
Naturalist Steve Backshall is searching for animals for his Deadly 60 list. In the Gomantong cave system he finds thousands of cockroaches and the scutigera centipede. [S]
Steve Backshall is in deep water as he tracks down underwater animals for his Deadly 60 list. The waters off the coast of Borneo hide a wealth of lethal predators. [S]
The Deadly 60 team scours the UK in search of its lethal beauties. Gannets prove to be more than a match for Steve in a diving competition.
Steve spots otters with Terry Nutkins, and falls prey to the incredible peregrine falcon.
Adventurer Steve Backshall and the Deadly 60 team head north to Alaska. The snowy north is home to the largest land predator in the world. A grizzly bear shows Steve Backshall why it's on the Deadly list. Steve then drags the crew rafting down an icy river to find hundreds of eagles.
In the Arizona desert, Steve finds deadly rattlesnakes and an elusive cougar
Steve and the team are on the search for deadly animals in the swamps of the southern USA.
Steve Backshall is headed to the Bahamas to get up close and personal with sharks.
In Brazil's northern savannah, Steve Backshall seeks the elusive giant anteater.
In the flooded forests of Brazil, Steve takes a swim in a piranha-infested river.
Steve and the team encounter a colony of army ants on the move in the rainforest.
Steve dispels myths about some deadly animals and shows how incredible they are.
A look at Steve's favourite creatures, whose jaws, claws and venom are useful weapons.
Steve Backshall introduces incredible critters who didn't quite make the Deadly 60 list.
Steve Backshall looks back at some of his favourite animal encounters from the series.
Showing the difficulties of filming in the tundra of Alaska and the rainforests of Brazil.
Steve finishes his journey with a look at the vulnerable side of deadly animals.
In Mexico, Steve Backshall takes to the water in search of a monster of the deep seas.
Steve Backshall and his long-suffering crew return for a brand-new series of deadly encounters with animals hoping to earn a place on his hallowed Deadly 60 list. Steve and crew pitch up in British Columbia, Canada. It is an explorer's paradise with infinite untouched wilderness and spectacular animals, but it's the creatures of the deep that Steve is on a mission to find. In the giant underwater kelp forests lurks a swimming giant, the wolf eel. It is a monster that strikes fear into some of the world's spiniest creatures, biting clean through their defensive spikes with ferocious chisel-like teeth and strong powerful jaws - not surprising when you consider its head is the size of a football. Steve then finds a trail of discarded crab shells which leads him onto his next deadly encounter, this time with an eight-legged sea creature which can easily reach the size of a family-sized tent. Armed with a vicious biting beak, the giant Pacific octopus makes light work of a crab's shell, and Steve comes face to face with one and quite literally gets wrapped up in his encounter with it. Given they can have an armspan as big as a truck, as a crab killer it is without equal. Then Steve is off in search of what could arguably be the most deadly animal in the world. They are referred to as wolves of the water, not only because of a mouthful of killer teeth but because they hunt in packs - it's the orca, otherwise known as killer whales. They are one of the most awesome predators on the planet - they have it all - size, speed and power and when Steve goes kayaking in amongst them he gets the surprise of his life when they start breaching all around him.
There's a surprise in store when Steve tracks down the infamous black bear.
Steve and the crew are thrown deep in the steamy rainforests of Costa Rica.
Steve gets hands-on with a poisonous frog - and nearly gets a nip from a vampire!
Steve Backshall trek into a remote part of the Darien jungle to search for the harpy eagle. Along the way, he chases a deadly racer snake down river and handles giant bullet ants.
Steve Backshall explores the Indian Ocean, searching for a fish that can weigh as much as a double decker bus, and looking for the fastest fish on the planet.
In South Africa, Steve Backshall swims with a pack of 30 blacktip sharks, examines a nest of killer bees and encounters a black eagle.
Steve Backshall visits Namibia, where he uses a special camera to examine a spider, before tracking down an elusive but lethal reptile and having a close encounter with a vulture.
Steve Backshall is in Namibia on the trail of Africa's big cats. Donning a camouflage suit, he tries to beat a leopard at its own game, before witnessing a pride of lions hunting.
Steve and the team embark on an adventure across the vast island of Madagascar.
Steve is in Uganda, getting up close and personal with gorillas, baboons and chimps.
In Thailand, Steve comes face-to-face with the longest venomous snake in the world.
In the Philippines, Steve goes nose-to-nose with a living dinosaur.
Steve continues his studies in the Philippines. Featured Animals: Thresher Shark, Yellow-bellied Sea Krait, Tarsier.
Dogs and Wolves, Norway, UK and Romania. In this episode Steve focuses on dogs. Featured Animals: Alaskan Husky, Rottweiler rescue dog, German Shepherd police dog, Grey Wolf, Brown Bear, He also visits Norway.
Steve and his trusty team head to the frozen north of Norway. He follows the tracks of Europe's largest cat, the elusive lynx, up into the hills in the hope of seeing one, and gets a little nervous when he meets some in captivity. Arctic foxes and musk oxen are also on the menu in this deadly snowy episode.
Steve and the Deadly 60 team are on their home turf, the UK. The adventure begins in a lake as Steve dives in to track down a deadly monster lurking in its depths. Then it's off to a wind tunnel to check out how eagles fly. Finally, Steve builds a giant web to demonstrate just what lethal killers spiders can be.
Steve and the crew turn cowboy as they head for the marshlands of Argentina. There's a nasty surprise in store for Steve as he searches for an anaconda. Undeterred, he swims in piranha-infested waters to find out more about these iconic killers.
Steve and the crew have almost come to the end of their journey to find the Deadly 60. They are in Peru, searching for elusive giant river otters. Steve has a chance encounter with the largest reptile in South America, and nothing prepares him for the animal that takes the last place on the Deadly 60 list!
Ever wondered how Deadly 60 gets made? This programme goes behind the scenes to see just how the series is filmed. From where the team eat and sleep to the extreme measures they have to take as they travel the world filming some of its deadliest predators, this special tells all.
Steve demonstrates how reading the tracks and signs left by an animal can lead to fantastic encounters. Lions, octopuses and badgers all feature in this special as Steve and his trusty crew travel the planet reading the signs they leave behind.
Steve takes a look inside some of the top predators featured on Deadly 60.
Steve Backshall is spat at and bitten by several creatures as he takes a look at venom.
A look at the contenders that didn't quite make it onto the Deadly 60 list.
Steve Backshall reports on animals that are endangered, and explores why the chimpanzee, mountain gorilla and harpy eagle are threatened with habitat loss and their populations severely depleted. In Madagascar, he also meets the most bizarre creature he has ever seen - the aye-aye.
Steve travels to Indonesia in search of three very different reptiles to add to his list of 60 deadly predators. He and his crew have a nerve-racking close encounter, when they are chased by a group of ravenous, three metre long Komodo Dragons, the world's largest venomous lizards! Steve also demonstrates the incredible gliding technique of a tiny flying lizard and heads out on a nocturnal hunt for the beautiful but lethal Green Pit Viper.
In the medieval Ethiopian city of Harar, Steve Backshall has a unique and potentially lethal encounter with a pack of spotted Hyenas. Capable of tearing their prey apart with super strong jaws and thick muscular bodies, here they are hand fed, allowing Steve the encounter of a lifetime with this normally unapproachable predator. Out of the town and up into the Mountains Steve meets the rarest wolf on earth and discovers why a grass-munching monkey, the Gelada baboon, has a set of teeth that would make a vampire jealous.
Steve is on his home turf, scouring land, sea and air, for some of the deadliest critters that the UK has to offer. First, he heads for the seas off the coast of Plymouth, in search of monsters from the deep. And he's not disappointed! In the bowels of a wreck he comes face to face with a giant conger eel, one of the most feared predators in the ocean. Back on land he meets a double deadly killer, the dragonfly. As adults they are amazing aerial assassins, but they lead a double life. Before they emerge as elegant winged beauties, the larvae are terrors of the underwater world, impaling their unsuspecting prey with their alien-like double hinged jaws. Finally, with the aid of giant vertical wind tunnel, Steve tries to hover like a kestrel, one of the prettiest, but fiercest falcons.
Steve and the crew head into the beautiful Alaskan wilderness for another deadly adventure. It's the largest state in America, and is home to some of the most impressive predators on Earth. Out at sea he uses radar technology to track down massive humpback whales, with a unique hunting strategy. Next he braves freezing coastal waters to get a close up view of the world's furriest mammal. Adapted for the freezing waters, they do look cute, but don't be fooled, they're prolific killers and they have very sharp minds. Finally it's back to dry land, where Steve and the crew go in search of incredible, imposing grizzly bears, and witness these huge mammals in full on deadly mode.
Steve's search for deadly animals takes him and the crew to South Africa. This time they're looking for one of the most iconic of them all, the ferocious great white shark. He gets some fantastic views of this king of the ocean, and to demonstrate their awesome hunting prowess, he has a special trick up his sleeve. Just as feared by many is the Cape Buffalo, known locally as the black-death. Steve takes to the skies to track down a huge heard of this notoriously bad tempered bovine beast before being charmed by the snake-stomping secretary bird.
In Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Steve chases the sea's fastest fish, the sailfish, reef-dives in search of a real-life sea monster and ventures alone, in complete darkness, into the 'cave of hanging serpents'.
Steve heads into the outback to find the world's most venomous snake, then to Tasmania to meet the Tasmanian Devil, and finally goes in search of a toxic terror living right in the heart of Sydney, the Blue Ringed Octopus.
Steve descends deep into New Zealand's Waitomo caves to find an unusual predator that lures insects to their death with a lethal lightshow, heads to South island to get an aerial view of one of the biggest animals on Earth, the sperm whale, and drives inland to meet a very curious bird armed with deadly intelligence.
Back in South Africa, Steve plays a friendly game of football with cheetahs, meets a monkey snatching crowned eagle eggs, and turns the latest camera technology on a trio of Africa's deadliest snakes.
Back in Australia, Steve drops from a helicopter into the nest of giant saltwater crocodile, goes in search of the most venomous animal on earth, the box jellyfish, and finally enters a marshland on a hunt for the and Tiger Snakes.
Steve and his crew are back in the jungles of South America for this deadly adventure. Steve heads into crocodile infested waters for a spooky nocturnal encounter with a truly shocking predator, the electric eel and takes a boat ride up the Amazon river to meet another infamous water dwelling kille - the black piranha; the largest of all piranha species. He also braves a thunderstorm to get a close-up view of one of the world's rarest canines, the maned wolf.
Steve and the crew head to the mountain kingdom of Nepal to search for more animal predators. Steve enlists the help of an elephant to track down a very grumpy rhinoceros and stalks the forests in search of the largest cat on earth, the highly elusive and endangered Bengal Tiger. He also has a chance encounter with a hive of honeybees in the centre of a busy Nepalese town before taking to the skies to paraglide with an Egyptian vulture above the foothills of the Himalayas.
Steve and the crew return to Mexico in search of more animals to add to the Deadly 60. Steve searches a swamp at night for a rare and beautiful crocodile with a nasty bite, before heading to the stunning Mexican coastline for an exhilarating encounter with one of the most dangerous sharks in the world, the Bull Shark. Finally he witnesses the awesome spectacle and hunting power of one of the greatest gathering of predators on Earth, as a million-strong bat army take to the night sky.
This time Steve and the crew travel to Venezuela in search of more lethal animal predators for their Deadly list. First they comb the Venezuelan wetlands looking for the biggest snake in the world, the mighty Green Anaconda, capable of growing to over six metres in length. Then Steve heads beneath the rainforest into a dark cave infested with vampire bats, where a true toxic terror lurks, the Scolopendra, a giant centipede armed with a powerful venomous bite.
Steve returns to South America to search for more of the planet's deadliest animals. He joins a team trying to save a highly endangered predator, the Orinoco crocodile and witnesses the ferocious maternal instincts of a female croc protecting her nest. In Brazil he heads out for a night-time encounter with a metre-long monster of the Amazonian waterways, the wolf fish and back on dry land Steve turns to technology in an attempt to track down one of South America's most elusive jungle predators, the enigmatic Jaguar.
Steve and the crew head for the island paradise of Sri Lanka in search of two massive predators. Steve attempts to free dive with the largest animal ever known to have lived, the Blue Whale and back on dry land he goes in search of another giant, the Asian Elephant. Along the way the Steve and the crew also encounter two very deadly snakes, a highly venomous Russell's Viper and an enormous, bone crushing Indian Rock Python.
Steve and the crew continue their Sri Lankan adventure on the hunt for another three perfect predators. They set up a night time stakeout to try and film an elusive Mugger Crocodile, head out to sea to find a highly toxic and rather ugly Hook-nosed sea snake and also explore the Yala National Park in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the majestic and seldom seen Sri Lankan Leopard.
Steve and the crew visit the Southern States of the USA in search of more predators to add to his Deadly list. He dives into the crystal clear waters of the Silver Springs River to swim with a wild Alligator and adds his first plant to the list, a carnivorous Venus Flytrap. He also feels the sting of the formidable Fire Ant and joins a team of scientists, tracking and tagging wild Bobcats.
Steve and the crew continue their search for the planet's deadliest predators with a visit to Florida in the USA. Steve wades into a swamp to try and catch a slippery amphibian called the Amphiuma and tracks down America's largest snake, the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. His journey ends in the Florida Keys where he witnesses firsthand the sophisticated hunting methods of highly intelligent Bottlenose Dolphins.
In this special episode Steve Backshall reveals the advanced camera technology and tricks of the trade that allow him and the Deadly 60 crew to film stunning images of the planet's most lethal predators. Including the high-speed camera that captured the breathtaking breach attack of the Great White Shark and the specially designed camera traps that let the crew film wildlife when they're not even there.
Steve Backshall delves into the weird and wonderful world of the parasites in this Deadly 60 special. From leeches to tapeworms and cuckoos to mosquitoes he reveals the mind-boggling methods that parasites employ to survive, breed and feed by exploiting their animal and human hosts
In this Deadly 60 special Steve Backshall takes a look at some of the super skills and senses that animals around the world use to hunt and survive. From the blistering speed and acceleration of the Cheetah to the elastic tongue and 360-degree vision of the chameleon and even a shark with a remarkable, hidden, sixth sense.
Deadly 60 takes on grand journeys into the unknown in search of wildlife. We often travel to the most remote locations, scouring the wilderness. But sometimes the animals are much closer than you might think.
In this Deadly 60 Special Steve takes a look at the incredible methods animals employ to protect themselves against predators. He trains with a kung fu expert and reveals the martial arts experts of the natural world, including a big hitting shrimp and a mesmerising preying mantis.
In this Deadly 60 special wildlife expert Steve Backshall examines the increasing pressures threatening our planet's animal populations, including tigers, gorillas and whales. He explores the various conservation efforts set up to help them and reveals a few success stories, such as the remarkable comeback of Africa's White Rhino.
In this final episode, wildlife adventurer Steve Backshall looks back at some remarkable unseen footage from the filming of Deadly 60, including the rescue of a juvenile fur seal from hungry great white sharks in South Africa and a terrifying run in with a giant venomous centipede in Venezuela. There are also some funny outtakes and Steve reveals his all time favourite animal encounter ever!
In this episode, Steve is in South Africa, home to a huge number of animals on the Deadly 60. However, big predators aren’t what Steve is here for – he’s exploring the plight of the rhino. One of the planet’s greatest defenders in its own world, the rhino now needs our help. Sought after for their horns, these animals are on the verge of being poached to extinction.
Steve sets sail to Bali for a diving adventure to find a giant ocean sunfish. He rescues fish trapped in an abandoned net and meets the teenagers fighting to ban plastic bags on the island.
Steve travels to Gabon for the first time. Exploring Loango National Park, Steve goes in search of crocodiles, surprisingly deadly chimpanzees and feisty forest elephants.
Steve heads to Norway to dive with the planet’s ultimate predator - the orca. He also witnesses the northern lights and gets up close to the mighty mouth of a humpback whale.
Steve witnesses a serval hunting in the weird surroundings of a power station at night, puts snakes to the test in a chomp-off and meets a rare spider.
Steve heads to Ecuador to dive with the giant manta ray. He also gets a unique view of the biggest baby on earth and rescues a turtle caught in a fishing line.
Steve meets baby orangutans and is strangled by a python on a night-time river expedition.
Steve dives with hammerhead and tiger sharks, exploring how to save them from extinction.
Steve heads to the rainforest in Ecuador in search of some of the deadliest critters.
A real-life King Kong shows Steve who is boss, and a scaly thief is caught red-handed.
Deadly special featuring some of the best moments from the series. Steve races a cheetah, rescues a king cobra and shares some of those rare times when things go wrong!
Steve Backshall and his crew are in South Africa. They are looking for one of the most iconic deadly animals of them all, the ferocious great white shark. Steve gets some fantastic views of this king of the ocean but to demonstrate its awesome hunting prowess, he has a special trick up his sleeve. On this mission Steve also goes in search of the fastest animal on land, uses some of the latest camera technology on a trio of Africa's deadliest snakes before being charmed by the astonishing snake stomping secretary bird.
Steve Backshall and his crew travel to Australia and New Zealand in search of more lethal predators. First up, Steve has his most dramatic encounter ever as he dangles beneath a helicopter and is dropped onto the nest of a wild saltwater crocodile. Steve then heads into the blistering sun of the outback to fulfil a lifelong dream of finding the most venomous snake in the world, the fierce snake whose toxic strike has the potential to kill the whole crew. Then it is time for the team to head over to New Zealand and venture deep into the Waitomo caves, where he hopes to find an unusual predator that lures insects to their death with a lethal light show. Finally, Steve heads out in search of the largest-toothed predator on the planet - the mighty sperm whale.
Steve Backshall tracks down some of the largest deadly animals Asia has to offer. Starting in Indonesia, Steve and his crew are chased by a group of ravenous, three-metre-long Komodo dragons, the world's largest venomous lizard. Steve then heads to Nepal in search of more deadly giants. He enlists the help of an elephant to track down a very grumpy rhinoceros, and stalks the forests in search of the largest cat on earth, the highly elusive and endangered Bengal tiger. He also has a chance encounter with a nest of giant honey bees, before taking to skies to paraglide with an Egyptian vulture above the foothills of the Himalayas.
Steve Backshall and the crew scour the wetlands of Venezuela in search of more lethal beasts. Steve heads into crocodile infested waters for a spooky nocturnal encounter with a truly shocking predator, the electric eel. He joins a team trying to save a highly endangered predator, the Orinoco crocodile, and witnesses the ferocious maternal instincts of a female croc protecting her nest. Steve then leaves the wetlands for the rainforest and heads into a dark cave infested with vampire bats. Here a true toxic terror lurks, the scolopendra, a giant centipede armed with a powerful venomous bite. Before leaving South America, Steve takes the opportunity to cross the border into Brazil and gets a close-up view of one of the world's rarest canines, the maned wolf.
This time on Deadly 60 On a Mission, Steve and the crew head to Mexico's breathtaking Yucatan Peninsula. First up is an exhilarating encounter with one of the most dangerous sharks in the world, the bull shark. Staying on the water Steve embarks on a high-octane chase with the fastest fish in the sea, the sailfish and witnesses these swimming speedsters obliterate a bait ball of sardines right in front of his eyes. Heading inland Steve is awestruck by the stunning spectacle and hunting power of one of the greatest gathering of predators on Earth, a million-strong bat army taking to the night sky. Finally, in a thrilling climax to his trip, Steve ventures alone and in complete darkness into the cave of hanging serpents. Here he marvels at the incredible hunting skills of the Mexican night snake, a cold-blooded predator that can catch a bat in mid-air!
Steve Backshall continues his search for the planet's deadliest predators with a visit to Florida in the USA. He dives into the crystal clear waters of the Silver Springs river to swim with a wild alligator, before wading into a swamp to try and catch a slippery amphibian, the weird and wonderful amphiuma. Steve then heads to the drier pine woodlands on the trail of America's largest serpent, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Steve then travels to South Carolina, joining a team of scientists, tracking and tagging wild bobcats. His journey ends back in the water, in the Florida Keys where he witnesses first-hand the sophisticated hunting methods of a highly intelligent predator, the bottlenose dolphin.
Steve Backshall journeys from the lush mountains of Ethiopia to the plains of South Africa. Starting in the medieval Ethiopian city of Harar, Steve has a potentially lethal encounter with one of the most feared predators in Africa, the spotted hyena. Capable of tearing their prey apart with super strong jaws, here these wild hyenas are hand fed, allowing Steve the encounter of a lifetime with this normally unapproachable predator. Out of town and up into the mountains Steve discovers why a grass munching monkey, the gelada baboon, has a set of teeth that would make a vampire jealous; and he meets the rarest wolf on earth. Steve then heads to South Africa on the trail of an animal known locally as the black-death, the Cape buffalo. He is then charmed by a snake-munching bird, the ground hornbill; and the regal crowned eagle, a bird capable of snatching unsuspecting monkeys from the treetops.
Steve Backshall and the Deadly 60 crew head for the island paradise of Sri Lanka. First they head to Yala National Park, famous for its population of one of the most elusive and cryptic cats on the planet - the Sri Lankan leopard. The team then set up a night-time stakeout in a local village to try and film an ancient river monster, the mugger crocodile. And the night-time deadlies don't stop there when a local brings an enormous, bone crushing Indian rock python to Steve's attention. Finally it's a mission of massive proportions as Steve attempts to free dive with the largest animal ever known to have lived, the blue whale. It's a lifetime ambition, with some jaw-dropping results.
Steve is in search of one of the most spectacular events on earth - bait balls. These wildlife events are so epic that they can be seen from space - but they won’t be easy to find.
Steve goes in search of the deadliest cats in Africa in the carnivore capital of Zambia. He gets up close to the rulers of the Savannah - the lions and leopards.
Steve heads to Zambia for the first time, where he hears hippo communication on a whole new level, spots a high-diving croc and meets some incredible sniffer dogs.
Steve heads to Suriname, a country with more forest than anywhere else on earth. He kayaks upriver in search of some deadly critters.
Steve takes a special journey to meet the most trafficked animal on earth - the pangolin. He meets the people working tirelessly to save them.
Steve heads down in a deep-sea submersible to explore the ocean depths like never before. He then travels to the Natural History Museum to meet some of the weirdest animals from the deep.
Steve heads into the heart of the Suriname Jungle. He goes in search of poison dart frogs, deadly snakes and hopes to find the elusive giant river otter.
Steve searches for deadly animals living in the capital of Suriname, from snakes in people's gardens to snail-catching kites and one of the deadliest snakes on earth.
Steve heads to the Mexican island of Cabo Pulmo, where the people have worked tirelessly to bring their surrounding oceans back to life and make it a marine reserve.
Steve heads to meet some of the most endangered animals in southern Africa - wild dogs. He meets the people working to save them and explores why their survival is so important.
Steve goes in search of ocean acrobats, mischievous coyotes and deadlies in miniature - but he ends up having an encounter with a humpback whale he will never forget!
In the Costa Rican rainforest, Steve is almost strangled by a boa constrictor, is struck dumb by the strike speed of a viper, and plays hide and seek with a deadly bushmaster. Then he gets hands-on with the world's most poisonous frog, nearly gets a nip from a blood-sucking vampire and encounters a huge American crocodile.
In the heart of South America, Steve hunts for the mighty anaconda, swims with piranha and has a surprising face-to-face encounter with a creature that bit him. Steve then visits Peru to meet the giant river otter and another very formidable snake.
In Central America, Steve takes to the water in chain mail in search of a deep sea monster. Back on land he searches for the world's biggest wasp before setting off for a day of snake hunting. Then he heads to Panama to track down one of the largest birds of prey in the world: the harpy eagle. Finally, Steve handles some giant bullet ants, who possess the world's most painful insect bite.
Steve Backshall is in the Philippines for another of his best ever missions. He has a tense and intimidating encounter with a living dinosaur, and delves into a subterranean world to find an arachnid with legs four times longer than its body. An early morning dive in the beautiful waters of the Philippines rewards him with a stunning shark that spends most of the day 550 meters below the surface. There is a swim with one of the deadliest snakes on the planet, and a nocturnal search in the jungle reveals a Tarsier, a deceptively cute predator who eats its victims head first.
In South Africa, Steve confronts blacktop sharks, the mighty black eagle, and a huge swarm of killer bees. He then heads into Namibia, to encounter a sidewinder and gets hands on with the ultimate Africa predator, the lion!
Steve starts in a natural museum comparing skeletons, notably dental, of predators from British Columbia. In coastal waters, he meets the huge Steller sea-lion with a scarier mouth then bears. On the sea bottom lurks the basilisk-like fish wolf-eel, who crushes even sea-urchins, devoured with spine. Next the giant Pacific octopus, a crab cracking specialist. As finale orcas, the only killer whale species, actually the largest dolphins, who even demonstrate they hunt the giant sea-lion, but it escapes.
Steve is on a mission to choose his ten favourite lethal weapons. In this blazing battle to the finish, there are ultimate talons and tusks, even some bloodthirsty plants with killer spines, and the world's most painful sting! Ten fabulous weapons used to hunt and fight, but which will Steve choose to be crowned as number one?
Steve is on a mission to choose his ten favourite killer tactics. These are the cleverest tricks that animals use to catch their dinner, and this cunning countdown includes a team of top hunting dogs, nifty net-throwing spiders, and an amazing fishing snake! Ten absolutely tactical creatures that all depend on their deadly strategies to survive - but who will Steve choose to be crowned as number one?
Steve is on a mission to choose his ten favourite toxic animals. This lethal line-up includes an ancient dragon with killer drool, a spear-throwing snail, and a venomous spider that can bite through your toenail! Ten totally toxic creatures that all depend on their deadly poison to survive - but who will Steve choose to be crowned as number one?
Steve is on a mission to choose his ten favourite fiercest animals. This fearsome line up includes a vicious deep-water monster, powerful sharks, and even gigantic killer hornets! Ten absolutely terrifying creatures, that all depend on their deadly ferociousness to survive. So who will Steve choose to be crowned his number one fiercest?
Steve is on a mission to choose his ten favourite fastest speedsters. In this race to first place, there is a turbo-charged fish, a mole with a record-breaking nose, and an animal whose tongue accelerates five times faster than a fighter jet! Ten ultimate speed machines that all depend on their deadly velocity to survive - but who will Steve choose to be crowned his number one fastest?
‘Deadly Bloopers’ is a 30min one-off ‘outtakes’ special in the Deadly 60 brand. Focusing on all of the (mis)adventures of presenter Steve Backshall and his Deadly Crew, ‘Deadly Bloopers’ takes the audience behind the scenes to see mishaps and mistakes from the past 3 series of Deadly 60.
The evil fossil hunter has stolen a precious artefact from the Natural History Museum, and only Deadly 60’s Steve Backshall and his crack team of young fossil finders can solve the mystery. The museum is locked, and with the evil fossil hunter trying to foil their plans, the team and the viewers must crack various codes to capture the evil genius and restore the artefact to its rightful home. Along the way, Steve and his team find out about where fossils come from and what they tell us about our modern world. They get to learn about and categorise types of fossils from trace, to body, to poo!
