The now extinct Smilodon is one of the most famous of the sabre-toothed cats.
The thick, folded skin of the rhinoceros looks almost like armour plating.
Colonising the land, sea and air, could birds be the greatest group of animals on Earth?
The most common African carnivore spotted hyaenas are the hunter-scavenger top dog!
Painted ladies are a popular butterfly, which undergoes a curious relay migration.
Swifts and swallows are unrelated yet superficially similar. Can you tell the difference?
Seahorses are a remarkable fish with the males becoming pregnant with the female's eggs.
Even if your an arachnophobe spiders are still a remarkable animal!
Weaver birds build exquisite nest structures that can rival any human engineering.
Electric eels are famed for their ability to produce an electric shock.
The largest of the primates, gorillas aren't as savage as they were once thought to be.
You may have some incredible athletes on your TV right now, but how about these wild ones?
Cuckoos take advantage of other birds by tricking them into rearing their young for them.
Death's head hawkmoths may be pretty startling to us but they're almost invisible to bees.
Wood frogs have the curious ability to withstand freezing.
Giant squid are enormous deep-sea cephalopods found throughout the world's oceans.