David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

Some animals appear to have taken Nature’s gifts and stretched them to extreme limits. With these two natural curiosities one creature, the giraffe, h...

David discovers the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery but have ultimately helped us rethink evolution. When early explorers brought...

David encounters two examples where Nature has tinkered with the aging process to alarmingly different effect – the first grows old while trapped in a...

The single spiral tusk of the narwhal inspiration for tales of unicorns and the myriad variations on the twist of the snail shell have delighted and f...

Zebra stripes vary subtly between the different species but there is one group of animals that has evolved colourful patterns of seemingly infinite va...